Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1902 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Fire destroyed the plant of the Bryant Lumber and Shingle Company at Seattle, De Witt Browne, a real estate man, accidentally shot and killed Marion Hurt at their camp on Mad creek, Colorado. The Board of Equalization of St. Louis County, Minnesota, has increased mine assessment valuations 330 per eent. Dr. Charles K. Adams, former president of the University of YVisconsin. died from Bright's disease at Redlands, Cal. The annual report of the Missouri river commission gives result of improvements and shows financial expenditures. Chicagoans are suffering from an unprecedented plague of mosquitoes, supposed to be due to continued heavy rains. Two are dead, three are fatally and over a score seriously injured by a car falling from a trestle near McConuellsville, Ohio. Earthquakes were felt in Nebraska, western lowa, South Dakota and California Monday, causing fright and doing some damage. Two men were killed and two others seriously burned by an explosion of gas in one of the Sans Bois Coal Company’s mines, one mile west of McCurtain, I. T. Thirteen Chicago firemen fell forty feet into the heart of a burning factory when the roof crashed and all were rescued by companions, only two suffering severe injuries. An invention for feeding live stock has been perfected by a Chicagoan, with the result that the cost of feeding will be decreased and better and cheaper meat be produced. A. M. Rothschild, (he well-known Chicago merchant, killed himself with a revolver, insomnia and physical suffering prompting the act. His estate is figured at $1,900,000. Topeka grain men say a corn crop of 200,000,000 bushels is assured in Kansas. They estimate that Nebraska. Kansas and Oklahoma will harvest 500,000,000 bushels of corn. While mowing his lawn Walter Kilner. a wealthy retired business man of Mattoon. HI., cut bis finger with a blade of grass. Blood poisoning set in and he died in great agony. Waterloo, lowa, suffered a loss of $109,000 by a fire which started in the basement of the United States express office. Two firemen were badly hurt while fighting the flames. Frank Duben of Chicago was picked up by a train crew near Texarkana, Ark., in a dying condition and expired in a few hours. Hu had S6O and a check for SIOO on the Dearborn Bank, Chicago. The water famine which has been threatening Trinidad, Colo., for so long is now n reality. The city is without fire protection and water for domestic purposes has to be purchased by the bucketful. A passenger train from Chicago on the St. Daul Road ran hito a box car standing on the main track at Etter, near Hastings, Minn. The engine was <k railed and Fireman Burns, who liver at Red Wing, was killed. A tramp also was killed. While chasing a rabbit Charles Seymour, n farmer living near. Chillicothe, Ohio, stepped into a hole. The shock threw his head back so quickly that the vertebrae was broken, killing him instantly. Miss Katherine Graham died at Logansport, Ind., and an investigation by the coroner showed that her death was directly due to cold contracted n few days before while sitting under an electric fan. L. D. Zimmermann, postmaster tor a

quarter of a century at Lynnville, Ind., -was fatally shot by two robbers, who secured over SSOO in money and made their escape on a hand car.. A posse is in pursuit. Dr. Charles Kendall Adams, aged 67 years, formerly president of the University of YVisconsin, died at Redlands. Cal., from Bright's disease, after a illness. Dr. Adams had been ailing for several years. At Excelsior Springs. Mo., white caps took Riley Thompson and wife and Chas. Walker, all colored, from the jail, marched them outside of town a short distance, tied them to a tree aud administered a severe whipping. The Chicago messenger boys’ strike ended Sunday night in a practical victory for the employers. Rioting all day and assault with clubs on Detective Peter Johnson, who stabbed his assailant, disgusted the strikers. On Huderer's creek, Grant County, Ore., 280 sheep belonging to J. C. Moor of Mount Vernon were slaughtered, presumably by settlers and cattlemen. Armed men came upon the band at night and fired buckshot into them. Mrs. William R. Chandler, aged 40 years, and her stepson, Moses Chandler, aged 26 years, were taken from their home, six miles south of Bloomington, 1n.!., at an early hour in the morning and terribly beaten by white caps. At St. Louis the jury in the case of Harry A. Faulkner, charged with perjury in connection with the “boodle” scandal, returned a verdict of guilty, fixing punishment at two years in the penitentiary, the maximum being five years. James J. Jeffries still holds the title of champion pugilist of the world by defeating Robert Fitzsimmons in the eighth round of a fast and furious battle at San Francisco Friday night. Brawn and muscle told against science and skill handicapped by age. Judge J. 11. Slover, in the Circuit Court at Kansas City, decided in a written opinion that the faculty of the Manual Training High School, a municipal school, has the right to prevent scholars of that institution from joining any secret society that has not the approval of the faculty. The Omaha Indians held a meeting at Pender, Neb., and resolutions were adopted severely criticising the system ruder which they are governed, and declaring they are a prey to speculators who work in league with Indian agents, who phin der and cheat them of their full rights and benefits of their lands. Willis L. Moore. inspector of the weather bureau, is about to install at the observatory in Duluth an apparatus which, it is claimed, will detect a lightning storm at a distance of 100 miles and foretell its appearance in any given locality. The device is the invention of Rev. Father O. L. Odenbach, a Roman Catholic priest of Cleveland. Judge Bunn of the federal court of the western district of Wisconsin handed down a decision dismissing the complaint in the $2,000,000 suit of Albert C. Gunnison, George A. Bright and Howard J. Forker. all of New York .City, against the Chicago. Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad Company ami G. Hilton Scribner, trustee. The suit was brought to recover the value of old bonds. A cyclone visited the Gulf of California, wrecking vessels nnd damaging many buildings in the coast cities. At Guaymns five vessels in the bay were sunk. Two of them —El Luella and El Gravina —were large steamers engaged in coastwise trade. The public building, containing the offices of the harbor master and collector of customs, was destroyed by the cyclone. The residence of the English vice-consul was unroofed and otherwise wrecked. The new municipal hall aud city prison were damaged.