Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1902 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

YVilliam Ross, who killed Thomas Walch at YY'illow City, N. D., has been sentenced to death. The 12-year-old son of D. G. Raschkc, a farmer near Hastings, Neb., was struck at a crossing nnd killed. Bank YVreeker Frank C. Andrews of Detroit has been sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment at hard labor. George ami Henry Heinz, young sons of Nicholas Heinz, fell from some boom •ticks into Pike bay, Minnesota, and were drowned. Rev. Father J. 11. Delaney of St. Patrick’s Church of Fort Wayne has been appointed irremovable rector by Bishop Wording. A grave at Orlando, Oklahoma, supposed to contain body of C. 8.-Morris of Kansas, was opened and found to contain lump of ice. YVilliam Botler, a handcuffed prisoner, dived off the training ship Dorothea in Chicago harbor, in the effort to gain his freedom anil then vanished. Fire in the Bergerman building at Pueblo, Colo., caused a loss of $75,000. The loss of L. Florman in fine pictures, paints and wall paper is nearly $50,000. The main building of the Marietta, Ohio, Paint and Color Company burned. Loss $50,000, insurance $20,000. The company will resume operations at once. Rev. Dr. Edward C. Benson, senior professor in Kenyon College, Gambier. Ohio, died nt the'age of 79 years. The alumni endowed the professorship of Latin in his nnme. John D. Rockefeller, the Standard Oil magnate, has purchased the Faurot Opera House and block at Limn, Ohio, for $90,000. It is his intention to make extensive improveineuts. A receiver has been appointed for the Obadiah Sands Butter Corporation, whose liabilities are but $445,000, while the assets ate $800,0i)(). Concern owes $155,000 to farmers for milk. The United States District Attorney of Kansas has decided that trade checks are illegal and that their issuance nnd circulation are punishable by a fine of SSOO or imprisonment for five years. July Baker of Fairplay, Colo., charged with killing J. Y'allie, on whpse ranch be was employed, was found guilty of murder in the second degree. Mrs. Y’allie is under indictment as nn accessory. Tracey R, Bangs of Grand Forks, N. D., for the pust two years supreme vicechancellor of the Knights of Pythias, has been exalted to the supreme chancellorship by the unanimous vote of the supreme lodge. Miss Cora Hngemeyer, daughter of the ■eeretary of the Baldwin Piano C< inpnny, was iiauh d in n basket to the t6p of a new smokestack 150 feet high in the piano factory nt Cincinnati, and there broke a bottle of champngnl. Two persons were killed and eight others injured, one probably fatally, in two street car accidents in St. Louis. Charles Bronson, a grading foreman, was run down and killed ns he was crossing a street car track. A wagon containing a

picnic party of eighteen young persons [ was struck by a Page avenue car and I overturned. Harry King, aged 18, was killed, Katie Brown, aged 16, was probably fatally injured, and Patrick Brown, aged 16, was seriously hurt. Carl Henrici, owner of a restaurant in Chicago, was found dead in his bed with a bullet hole in his right temple. As Mr. Henrici had not been in good health lately, it is thought that fact had something to do with his taking his life. Frank L. Stone, a Kansas City policeman, died at the hospital of a bullet wound inflicted by one of four men he was trying to arrest at Riverview 4 , a suburb in Kansas. Before he died Stone said that Peter Nugent had shot him. Joseph Anderson, a farmer living east of Salma, Kan., in a fit of despondency drowmfe his four children, three girls and a boy, in a cistern, and then shot himself with a revolver. He will probably die. Financial matters had affected his mind. Mrs. Frederick YV. Prentiss, wife of the president of the Hayden-Clinton National Bank, was held up in her own home in .Columbus, Ohio, by a masked robber and at the point of a revolver compelled to deliver $2,600 worth of diamonds. A gang of robbers blew open the postoffice safe nt East Palestine, Ohio, and secured about S(XM) in stamps and stationery. The noise of the explosion aroused the citizens and an exchange of shots took place, but the robbers escaped with their booty. J. C. Surles, a Kansas City blacksmith, coming home unexpectedly and finding Albert Hayes, a hoarder, in company with bis wife, shot both with a shotgun. Mrs. Surles probably will recover. Hayes may die. Surles had pretended to go fishing, and returned to the house quietly. Shortly after noon Friday Pike’s opera house in Cincinnati was discovered on fire. The loss aggregated $75,000, distributed among many tenants. George Joffee lost $20,000 and Henry Straus, cigars and tobaccos, $15,000. The Pike estate and Manager Hunt of the opera house are among the losers. A terrific storm caused four deaths at Rolla, N. I). The house of a settler, whose name is unknown, was blown down and his wife and three children were killed. His son was killed instantly ami his wife and little daughters were caught in the ruins and so badly crushed that they lived but a short time. YVord has come of the rediscovery of the famous Lost Cabin gold mine in the mountainous district bordering the Black Hills, northeast of Douglas, YY’yo., and several hundred prospectors started at once for that country. The Lost Cabin mine was located in 1869, and was reported to be fabulously rich in free gold. The body of Peter Anderson, known as the hermit prospector of Park City, Utah, has been found in his lonely cabin. He had evidently been dead for weeks. It is believed he perished of starvation, notwithstanding that $1,700 in cash was found secreted in the cabin. It is believed that fully SIO,OOO lies to his credit in various banks. Calvin B. Potter, an attorney of Salt Lake City, and at one time prominent in Michigan State politics, committed suicide by taking enough morphine to kill a dozen men. Potter, who served throughout the Civil YVar, had been trying for twelve years to secure a pension and despondency over his failure is believed to be the cause of his suicide. Running at a speed of nearly fifty miles nn hour, a Monon special train carrying 3(H) business college students from Indianapolis and Cincinnati crashed into an Erie freight train a mile west of Hammond. Ind., and then jumping the rails, demolished a Monon freight train standing on an adjoining track. One man was killed and four others seriously hurt. John Grannam, driver of an ice wagon in St. Louis, was killed by lightning in a peculiar manner. Grannam was standing on the rear step of his wagon chopping ice, when" there was a flash of lightning and a ball of fire rolled along the trolley wire overhead. YY’hen alvove Grannam it burst with a loud report and he fell to the ground unconscious. He died a few hours later. Two persons dead, three more without hope of recovery, a sixth fearfully burned and a residence in Gering, Neb., in ashes is the result of the lighting of a fire with kerosene. C. N. McComsey, whose wife had been ill for several days, was attempting to start a fire in a wood stove when the oil exploded, setting fire to his clothing and throwing burning fluid all over the room. Many thousands of acres of valuable oil and gas land were added to the already immense Chanute, Kan., field by the striking of a gas well on the Hanson farm, six miles west of Chanute. The well is the property of a syndicate headed by Col. 8. YV. Isett of Chanute, president of the Neosho Y’alley Oil Company. The well shows a capacity of over 10,000,000 feet a day. Judge Fagan of the Probate Court of Shawnee County, Kan., in behalf of the Trades and Labor Unions of Topeka, granted an injunction restraining the American Book Company and its Kansas depository, the Kansas Book Company, from supplying the schools of Kansas under its contract with the State. County Attorney Nichols in presenting the ease held first that the contract with the State nnd the book company was made before the book company was legally authorized to do business in Kansas, and that therefore its contract is not good. Some time ago the citizens of Norcatur, Kan., demolished n joint in that town. The fixtures were shattered and the stock of liquor was poured into the gutter. A Missouri brewing company claimed the property and brought suit against forty members of the smashers' organization for SSOO damages. In charging the jury Judge Hamiltoii declared that the joint fixtures and liquor were legal property and entitled to the protection of the law. The jury gave the brewing company judgment for $350. The citizens who were defendants in the case have appealed to tin* Supreme Court. A most destructive fire began at Hamilton, Ohio, about midnight Thursday, and wus not under control until 4 o'clock in the morning. The large dry goods store of T. V. Howell & Son. where the fire originated, was made a complete wreck. The Second Nntiotlal Bank building, adjoining the Howell block on the west, .was damaged considerably l.y fire nnd water, but the bank itself escaped with slight damage, While Jhe fire was in progress another fire broke out in YY’nlnut street in a smalt grocery store, nnd Cincinnati was called upon for help. Two engines were sent in response, but by the time they arrived the fire was

under control and they were not taken from the train. The YValnut street fire was easily extinguished. The losses are estimated at a quarter of a million, mainly in the Howell’s and the Second National Bank.