Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1902 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Wyoming Democrats have nominated George T. Beck for Governor. S. T. Davis of Otoe County was nominated for Governor by Nebraska Prohibitionists at Lincoln. John I). Sprockets, proprietor of the San Francisco Morning Call, has sworn to a warrant charging Gov. Gage with libel. A man named Webster was arrested at Reedley, Cal., charged with arson in starting a (ire which caused a loss of $75,000. Dorothy Stiles, It! years old. living near Bay City, Mich., is said to be slowly turning to marble and that her death must soon result. Fire, supposed to be incendiary, practically gutted the Schwarzehild & Sulzberger packing house at Pittsburg. About $50,000 damage was done. Leonard M. Dingle, former teller of the First National Bank of Aspen, Colo., was arrested in Denver, charged with embezzling $40,000 from the bank. • Delbert Preston, aged 15, lias confessed to wrecking the Rock Island train near South Omaha July 111, by which one man was hilled and a number hurt. While the schooner Biased, in tow of the steamer Nipigon, was rounding off Detroit, she was struck by the steamer Presque Isle and badly damaged. Three immense forest (ires have neon burning with a few miles of Battle Lake, Wyo. Hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of timber lias been destroyed. Several persons were injured in a headon collision between two suburban motor cars on the Clevelund, Elyria and Western line, three miles cast of Elyria, Ohio. Benjamin B. Brown, candidate of the Republicans, was elected Mayor of Pueblo, Colo., by a majority of 015 over J. E. Riser, Democrat, tiie present incumbent. Two boys near San dose, Cal., emulated Bandit Tracy, one. who was wounded after aiding in several robberies, committing suicide. His companion was captured. City Marshal Rich was shot and killed By Joseph Gideon, who was then killed by a policeman at Webb City. Mo. The officers were trying to arrest Gideon and his brother. Wind storm at Kansas City did SIOO,900 damage in eight minutes and injured twelve persons. Liberty. Warrenrille and other towns also suffered damage. Streets tiljed with debris. James McArkiu, aged <!0 years, of Joplin, Mo., was arrested.on the charge of being n counterfeiter. His abode wna Icarcbed, revealing many tools and device* for making counterfeit* money. A

large quantity of spurious coin was discovered. J. A. Purker of Dallas, Texas, chairman of the allied People’s party national committee, has called the executive committee to meet in Springfield, 111., Aug. 27, to consider the situation in Western States. Charles T. Pennell and Timothy Devine, patrolmen connected with the West Lake street station, were shot and killed in Chicago while In the discharge of their duty. The murderers are at present unknown. Private Cross of Company D, First battalion of engineers, placed the muzzle of a rifle under his chin and pulled the trigger at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. Jlis whole face was blown off. He wus demented. A severe frost is reported in the northwestern part of lowa. Messages received from Cloverdale state that the section about Sibley was visited by a heavy frost, and that the damage to corn has been considerable. Walter A. Scott, reputed millionaire, clubman and president of the Illinois Wire Company, was fatally stabbed by Walter L. Stebbings, a civil engineer, in his Chicago office, as the result of a quarrel over au account. The Navajo Indians in Colorado have not been in such misery ns now for thirty years. The extreme heat and drouth in the Navajo country have ruined ranges, and horses, cattle, sheep and goats are starving by the score. Alice Moxley, aged 21, of 2016 West Jackson boulevard. Chicago, was drowned at Port Huron, by the accidental overturning of a rowboat. Her brother Charles and her cousin, Lester McDonald, were saved. Water is flowing into the great water power canal of the Miehigan-Lake Superior Power Company at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. Without a spectator save the workmen, the sluiceway was opened. The tilling at the present time is in the nature of a test. The monument recently erected over the grave of Nancy Hanks, mother of Abraham Lincoln, at Lincoln, Ind., will be dedicated on Oct. 1. Col Charles S. Denby of Evansville, former minister to China, will be invited to deliver the dedicatory address. The body of u young woman was found on the prairie at 74th and State streets, Chicago, and later identified as that of Minnie Mitchell, and the police have found evidences of murder. The disappearance of William Bartholin, her lover, and his mother deepens the mystery. Lewis G. Toombs, convicted of the foul murder of Carrie Larsen last winter, was hanged in the county jail in Chicago. The trap was-sprung at 11:29. At 11:45 the sheriff’s jury of doctors pronounced Toombs dead, and the body was cut down and turned over to bis widow for interment. When Dick Bruyn went out in Chicago harbor to clean up Dr. George L. A. Dale’s yacht he found a man dead in the cabin. The man was W. G. Davis. A revolver lay beside the body. The man bad been shot through the temple and then through the heart. He was despondent. At Webb City. Mo., City Marshal Rich was shot and killed by Joe Gideon, who was then killed by a policeman. The officers were trying to arrest Gideon and bis brother Jim. After the shooting Jim Gideon was hurried to the police station to prevent a lynching, a mob having gathered quickly. Harry A. Faulkner, member of the house of delegates, recently convicted of perjury in connection with the bribery cases in St. Louis, and sentenced to two years in the penitentiary, was given his freedom pending an appeal to the Supreme Court. He gave bond in SIO,OOO for his appearance. Attorneys for the American Book Company have tiled a writ of error before the Supreme Court at Washington against the State of Kansas. The fight will be upon the right of the Kansas Supreme Court to linr the company from doing business in Kansas under the interstate commerce laws. J. H. Siseo, a negro who escaped from a detective while being taken from Chicago to Pittsburg for stealing S4IXI from the home of Robert Pitcairn, assistant president of the Pennsylvania company, was captured by Canton, Ohio, officers. Siseo jumped from a Pullman car iu order to flee from his custodian. Eight-year-old Lance Harwood of Big Rapids, Mjch., while on a visit to the Chicago stock yards, found an envelope containing securities valued at $59,900. The envelope had been lost by a messenger boy who had been assigned to carry it from Nelson Morris & Co.’s main office to the stock yards postoftice. Young Lance was given $25 as part of his reward. Jacob Mamma, an aged farmer, who lives alone north of Dayton, Ohio, was tortured by masked robbers who broke into his house the other night, and is in a critical condition as a result of Ids injuries. Mumma attempted to defend himself with a shotgun, but his aim was bad and he wus overcome and bound. The robbers poured oil on his feet and started a blaze to compel him to reveal the hiding place of money he was supposed to have, but they secured only an insiguUl* cant sum. A plot to destroy the Adams County infirmary and kill the forty-four inmates was unearthed at Decatur, Ind. A. IV. Butler, secretary of the State board of charities, was making an inspection of the buildings. In the room of Charles Echermnn he foubd a idle of rubbish, which he ordered removed. Buried beneath the rubbish sixty pounds of dynamite, two two-pound dynamite bombs and 115 feet of fuse were found. Echcraun has been an inmate of the infirmary over twelve years. He was reprimanded recently and since that time has been sulky. When the discovery of the dynamite wus made he disappeared and no trace of him can be found. It is known that he has a dynamite bomb with him.