Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1902 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Masked men near Lackeys, Wyo„ are reported to be beating sheepmen and killing their herds. The property of the Waukesha Springs Company was sold to F. J. It. Mitchell of New York for s.l-1,000. George K. (ireenfall, George Parker and (leorge Mason were killed by a gas explosion ut Aquilar, Colo. Fred Falkiuherg, a teamster of Kansas City, Mo., shot and killed his wife us she lay asleep ami then shot himself. He cannot recover. Mayor Ames of Minneapolis has resigned and will step down Sept. -1. He has also demanded that his brother, the chief of police, resign. . Despondent because of illness. Joseph Podawoski stubbed his wife and 1- yearold daughter and committed suicide at El Kcuo, O. T. Sturgis, r. 1)., Ernest Loscwnr was found guilty of tin- murder of George Puck and George Ostrander and given the death sentence. By a vfite of 3 to 11 the park eonituis•loners decided that hereafter automobiles should he excluded from the parks ami houlevnrdslof. Omaha. The Ohio plant of the National Steel Tube Company in Warren, Ohio, which has been Idle since the combine waa formed, hits been ordered dismantled. David Morris, a farmer, aged 48, was killed hy his son, Davis Morris, aged 22, near Prattsville, Ohio. The son was living with his father ana demanded the use

of a horge. When the father refuged the son struck him with a club. The father died within an hour. Panhandle train No. 11, tie fast mail, struck and killed J. M. Anderson of Kenton, Ohio, and Obe Jones of Tiffin. 1 The men were walking on the track. The explosion of a sawmill boiler on the farm of George Neff, near Bellaire, Ohio, killed John Shaw and George Wheeler and fatally injured Charles Supper. The new torpedo boat Grampus, one of the two ordered from the Union iron works, by the United States navy, v as successfully launched at San Francisco. Dr. William M. Beard shear, president of lowa State College at Ames, died as the result of nervous prostration. Dr. Benrdshear was one of the foremost educators in lowa. The Centennial Flour Mills at spokane. Wash., with a daily capacity of 700 barrels of flour and 200 barrels of cereal foods, was destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $85,000. The big grain elevator owned by John J. Badenoeh & Co. in Chicago was damaged $75,000 by fire. No watchman is employed In the--building and the origin of the fire is a mystery. Because his wife had left him. Pleas I’itzer. a negro, shot and killed Robert Brooks, his father-in-law, and his daughter and fatally wounded another sister of his wife near Brinkley, Ark. Chicago, Burlington and Quincy limited train on route front Chicago to Minneapolis was held up near Savanna, 111., by two masked men and the express ear was looted of booty valued at $20,000. Joseph Hardesty was instantly killed and his four sons were seriously injured by the explosion of a large boiler at his sawmill on Wolfe creek, in Lawrence County, Ohio. The mill is a wreck. John Courier and Joseph Vnrvais. Frenchmen, were killed by a cave-in on the seventh level of the Homestake mine at Lead, S. I). Five floors of the level came down, with about fifty feet of the loose rock. Carols Sardelli, an Italian scissors grinder, lies in>a serious condition at his home in St. Paul because of a self-in-flicted dagger thrust in the left side which was administered during a dance of hysterical happiness. A lone highwayman at Helena, Mont., held up Samuel Travel* and James Katidall, and after he had robbed them, compelled them to stop a street ear. tie a handkerchief over his face and go through the car.'"The robber secured sso. An earthquake shook Missoula County, Mont., causing damage and wrecking some old houses. It lasted about two seconds, the vibrations being quick qnd short. At Bonner one of the large dynamos of tho electrical plant was shaken from its adjustment. On his deathbed William Thompson of Vilas. Colo., has confessed that he killed his son, Benjamin, aged 13, and that Zeb Nicholson, who was convicted of having murdered the boy and is serving a sentence of ten to twenty years in the penitentiary, is innocent.

The body of an unidentified woman was brought to Stillwater, Minn., from a point near Lake Elmo, where she had been killed by a .passing train ou the Omaha road. There is nothing to lead to her identity aside from a ring marked “J. C. to M. S.” June and July broke the “wet” record for Chicago. One foot and one-fourth of an inch of rain fell in the two months. There were thirty-nine rainy days, and in July there were thirty-six showers. The month’s precipitation was 5.78 inches. That for June was 6.45 inches. Mrs. Julia C. Howell of Chicago committed suicide at La Veta Place rooming house in Denver by taking laudanum. The deed was committed on Wednesday, but the body was not discovered until Friday. In a note to her landlady she explained that illness caused her to take her life. J. Kiley, a stationary engineer of Leadville, was held up and robbed in the City Park, Denver, Colo. He says he overheard two men talking of kidnaping the daughter of James A. MeClurg, son-in-law of David H. Moffatt. When the men discovered him they attaekis] and robbed him.

Superintendent of Irrigation Armstrong lias received a report from Commissioner Banning that thirty farmers, fully armed, marched to the headgates of Fulton ditch, near Henderson. Colo., and. breaking down the headgate, allowed an immense amount of water to flow into the ditch, thus saving their crops. Mrs. B. B. Swing of Valparaiso, Ind., was killed at Pittsburg in an automobile accident. She was riding in Schley Park when through the loosening of a screw an automobile in which she was riding coursed wildly along a driveway. The woman fainted from the rush of air and fell from the runaway machine. In Cleveland tracks were cleared for a .Trent fare again, when the Circuit Court dissolved the temporary restraining order hy which the City Council was --ujoinod from passing any franchise legislation. Three-ecnt fare franchises will now te pushed through the Council at once, in accordance with Mayor Johnson's plans. The steamer'City of Wheeling had a narrow escape from serious disaster in tile Ohio river off North Bend, Ind., while bcund from Cincinnati to Madison, Ind., with a cabin full of passengers. Part of her freight was washed overboard and her passengers were thrown into a panic for a few moments as the result of a collision with the steamer City of Cincinnati. Mrs. Sarah Xessler of Denver, Colo., who has been blind for seven years ami w hose affliction was pronounced incurable by oculists, says she has recovered her sight in a miraculous manner. While praying at a revival meeting or the Holiness sect, sometimes called “The Jumpers," she says a white light broke upon her eyes nud soon she was able to distinguish objects. Mr. aii<| Mrs. John Khnndrow, who own a fruit farm near South Haven, Mich., are childless, ami, having decided to adopt a hoy, wrote to the Smith, Foundling Asylum in Minneapolis asking that several children be sent for n summer's outing, with the privilege of choosing from them in case they so desired. The institution promptly forw.'.’•■led twentytwo boys and girls over 3 years of age. The couple has decided to adopt all of them. A Santa Fe passenger train returning to Los Angeles, Cal., from Redondo Beach ran through an open switch and crashed into nn oil train. Both engines were wrecked, ns were also one conch and four oil-tank cara. The fuel tank of

üße of the engines exploded immediatelj t.fter the crash, setting fire to the wreck. Burning oil was scattered in every direction and the large oil refinery plant of the Combs Refining Company was set on fire. The plant was destroyed, as were all the cars in the wreck except one.