Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1902 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

L. A. Sartell, an aeronaut, was killed by a fall of 1,200 feet at Homer, 111. Thomas Kane of Chicago has been elected president of the Winona assembly. President Burt of the Union Pacific Railway was, arrested in Omaha on complaint of ten workmen, who allege false imprisonment. The forest tires on the Green Horn mountain range, Colorado, whi.h had destroyed much valuable timber, have been extinguished by rain. Rufus K. Cravens and O. P. Nolan, quarrymen, who were deaf, were struck by a Rock Island passenger train near Kansas City and killed. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, who spoke at the Chautauqua at Urbana, 111., said there was a strong possibility that the United States would acquire Cuba in time. The Ohio Legislature convened in extraordinary' session for the purpose of enacting a code of laws for the government of the municipalities of the State. Willie Furgrove and Otis Montgomery, each 12 years old, were knocked from the top of a freight car in the yards at Oklahoma City and run over and killed. The discovery was made at Duluth that 109,000 pounds of sugar belonging to the sugar trust and stored in a Duluth warehouse was missing. The sugar taken is valued nt $6,000. Herbst, Hill & Co., a brokerage firm at 112 LaSalle street, Chicago, went into the hands of Clarence Day, receiver. The liabilities are placed by the attorneys for the firm at $60,000, with assets nominally nt the same figure. The Kansas City-St. Louis lin» of the Rock Island system will be in operation within a year, according to G. A. Goodnow. general manager. Mr. Goodnow added that the offices of the new line would be located nt Kansas City. Celia Dibble Roberts, one of the pluri) wives of B. 11. Roberts of Sait Lake, who was expelled from Congress because of his polygamous relations, has contributed another pair of twins to the family which recently attracted much attention. Samuel Pryor, founder of Pryor's band died al Kt. Joseph, Mo., of a gastric disease. hi response to a n quest of the dying bandmaster, his musicians played lively airs for him ns ho passed away, several pieces being of bis own composition. One man was killed, three fatally in-

jured and one seriously hurt by the explosion of the boiler of a big mogul engine drawing the first section of a Chicago and Alton train eleven miles east of Mexico, Mo., while going thirty-five miles an hour. Charles Sieber, a wealthy cattleman and one of the most prominent citizens of Grand Junction, Colo., was shot and instantly killed by Joseph Harris of Westwater at a round-up on the Little Dolores river. The two men disputed the ownership of unbranded cattle. Kansas City's new $500,000 playhouse, the Willis Wood, was formally opened by Amelia Bingham and her company, presenting “A Modern Magdalen.” Theoccasion was made brilliant by the attendance of Govs. Dockery of Missouri and Savage of Nebraska. The First National Bank of Aberdeen, S. I)., was robbed of $3,800 in silver. The robbers entered the basement, thence going upstairs, and cut a hole in the vault through the steel side. The chest was not opened, the silver being stored in sacks in the vault outside of the safe. Hundreds of farmers in Kansas had to flee from the waters of the Cottonwood river, leaving behind their deluged farms and flooded homes. The river rose steadily for a week and great damage resulted. Some farms were under water thir-ty-six hours, causing certain destruction to crops. The annual reunion of the survivors of Quantrell's guerrillas was held at Independence, Kan. Most of those present took part in the raid upon Lawrence, Kan., thirty-nine years ago, and a majority of the survivors were boys at the time. Jim Cummings was prominent in the reunion.

Northern Pacific passenger train No. 7 crashed into the rear of a freight train in the yards at Anoka. Minn., killing the tireman, Harry Hutchins, and delaying traffic. In clearing away the wreckage David H. Wilson, engineer of No. 7, was caught between two timbers and fractured his leg. At Pratt, Kan., Mrs. Kimball is dead from “lumpy jaw,’’ caught from cattle, and Mr. Cochran of the Pratt Republican has been taken to a hospital in the same city jlangerously afflicted with the disease. Another man. whose name has not been learned, Caught the' disease by chewing straw. C. A. Mallory’ of the Mallory Commission Company and Judge Holmes, attorney for the Union Traction Company, both of Chicago, and Judge Levi McGee of Rapid City, S. D., have returned from Mexico, where they’ have been perfecting arrangements and letting contr.iets for a great packing house. The North American Copper Company, capitalized at $40,000,000 and formed recently in the East to purchase and operate all of the leading mines, the aerial tramway and smelter in the Gran-1 Encampment district, has purchased 'he Ferris-Haggerty copper mine at Battle Lake, Wyo., for $1,000,600. The Frisco system’s southern limited train, south bound, heavily laden with passengers, was maliciously derailed at Edwards Junction, near Fort Scott, Kan. Someone had driven a spike between the switch rails and opened the switch half way. The engineer and fireman were injured, but none of the passengers was hurt. A cable car crowded with passengers got away from-the gripman at the top of the Ninth street incline in Kansas City, shooting down at an angle of 45 degrees, to the Union station and dashing to the bottom at a terrific speed crashed into a train that had become stalled there, killing one person and injuring nearly a score.

Deputy Postmaster Sockland was held up, bound and gagged by robbers at Stuttgart, Ark., as he was about to close the office. The robbers took S6OO in money, about SBOO worth of stamps and Socklaud's watch and escaped. The man’s groans attracted the attention of passers-by an hour later and he was released. A tornado, accompanied by a terrific rain and hail storm, passed along the Niabrara river, eight miles north of Hemingford. Neb. It passed through a thickly settled country and is thought to have done a great amount of damage. It is known that a number of residences and other buildings in the path of the storm w’ere demolished. Miss Mabel O'Rear. daughter of Judge of Court of Appeals O'Rear of Frankfort. Ky., was drowned in the Ohio river at Cincinnati. Miss O'Rear. Miss Anna Stewart and Oscar Mortashead were out in the river in a canoe, when the waves of a steamlmat upset the craft. Mortashead and Miss Stewart were rescued by the steamboat crew. Three brothers named Sweet, from White Earth. Minn., who were camping near Fargo, N. 1 >., were held up by three maski-d men. The oldest brother resisted and was shot in and abdomen. He is in a critical condition. His assailant, John Rooney, was captured. The younger brothers were robbed of gold watches and money. William Upshaw, 20 years old. who left home at Salem, Mo., after a violent quarrel last spring, returned home, broke into the house, shot his father through the chest, tired two shots into his stepmother’s breast and then blew out his brains on the railroad tracks near their house. The only cause that can be assigned for the tragedy is that the son was opposed to bis father’s second marriage.

A west-bound Northern Pacific train was held up at Sand Point, Idaho. The robbers, of whom there were seven, forced the engineer to stop the train, after which they uncoupled the baggage car. Then they compelled the engineer to pull up the track about three miles further, where they tried to wreck the baggage car with dynamite. The explosives failed to work for some unknown cause, and after spending fifteen minutes with the ear the robbers decamped. So sure are the large cattle raiser* doing business on the Omaha market that a combine of the packing houses has been consummated and that the price of live stock will fall when only one firm is buying that they have practically finished plans to erect and operate independent packing houses at Omaha and Kansas City, and possibly St. Louis. The plan is to issue $1 worth of stock for each head of live stock owned by the cattle raisers. Fifty-five per cent of this stock will be held in the treasury, thus preventing the trust people from securing control. A fortune-teller told Jennie Fulk of Minneapolis that her lover would be faithless to her and that she would take

her own life in drder to become a spirit and watch over him from the ' spirit world. This prediction made such a great impression on "Miss Falk that she brooded over it and the other day attempted to drink carbolic acid. It was taken away from her, but two days later she secured more acid and succeeded in ending her life.