Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1902 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Five men are reported killed in a freight wreck on the Roek Island Railway at Randolph, Mo. At Waterdale, Colo., Miss Gertrude Edith Hoothroyd was married to Lord Lyulph Ogilvy, second son of the Earl of Airlie. Two hundred gunncii employed in the Union l’aeific shops in Omnha, derided to return to work at the scale offered by the company. Recent friction in the Minnesota high court of United Foresters has resulted in a decision by Insurance Commissioner Dearth to investigate the order. The safe and vault in the court house at Ipswich, S. I)., were robbed of $2,700. presumably by someone familiar with the office. All the money was gold. The body of an unknown woman which was found beside the tracks near Canoy. I. T., lias been identified us that of Miss Barbara Bates of Knoxville, Tenn. Joseph Laßarge, a paroled prisoner and printer of Toledo, was shot to death by a mob at Monroe, Mich., where he had arranged to elope with a married woman. W. 1). Stoner, aged 30, representing Sprague, Warner <V Co. of Chicago, committed suicide in Great Falls, Mont. His father, mother und sister are said to reside in Chicago. Wultev C. Eaton aud George Elirhurdt, boys who had gone 011 the river ut St. Louis for a row, were drowned by the overturning of their boat. Four companion* were rescued. The concentrator of the Montana Ore Purchasing Smelting works at Butte was d<\troycd by fire. The works are owned by F. August lleinze nnd 1,000 men are thrown out of work. The sensational contest over the estate of the lute I’. I’. Mast, the millionaire manufacturer of Springfield, Ohio, has been settled and each of his three adopted daughters will get $300,000, The conductors, gripmen and motormen employed hy the Union Traction Company in Chicago have derided not to strike. Their grievances will be submitted to a hoard of arbitration. Judge Morse of Salt Lake City, Utah, denied a motion for a new trial for Fetor Morteuseu, the contractor convicted ( ,f the murder of James R. Hay, secretary of the Pacific Lumber Company. Thirty millionaires from New Eugiaud, en route to tho Black Hills, spent the other day wandering about Denver without being aide to find hotel accommodation. They had wired ahead for Itllrty

rooms, but not one of the downtown hotels could even accommodate them with a cot. While an engine and four loaded cars were going up the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern coal chute at Chillicothe, Ohio, the chute gave way. Fireman Bazler and Switchman Falter were fatally hurt At Harrison, Idaho, the mills of the Cameron Lumber Company have been destroyed by fire, together with nearly 3,000,000 feet of lumber. The loss is $90,000. The flumes started from a spark from an engine. * I)r. E. Benjamin Andrews drew a dark picture of popular government in his address at the convocation of the University of Chicago. The gifts for the year footed up $2,083,355. One hundred and twenty diplomas were conferred. Howell Jones, a farmer, was shot and killed near Atkins, Ark., by A. J. Mathias, a farmer of the same neighborhood. The men were brothers-in-luw and had not been friendly for some time. Mathias at once surrendered. A terrific explosion occurred at the Hercules dynamite plant, eleven miles north of Louisiana, Mo. The acid-recovery house was the scene of the explosion, which utterly annihilated the building ami all its contents. No one was hurt. Otto A. Meyer, president of the O. A. Meyer Company, shot himself through the head at his home in Milwaukee. He was 45 years old and leaves u wife and three children. He is supposed to have been depressed over financial affairs. Over (50,000 toilers, including scores of women, took part in the Labor Day parade in Chicago, which is said to have been the greatest that ever marched in an American city. Contributions to aid striking miners are figured at SIO,OOO. Mr. und Mrs. Michael Murphy, aged 75 and 74 respectively, were asphyxiated at their room on Aldrich avenue, Minneapolls. Coroner Williams decided that death was purely accidental. Mr. and M rs. Murphy came recently from lowa. John Reit, a farmer south of Lewiston, Mont., took swift revenge on George Fredericks and Jacob Stange, neighbors, who were endeavoring to handle him in Whitecap style. He shot and instantly killed Fredericks and fatally wound.*d Stange. A tornado swept a passenger train from the track of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway near Meriden, Minn. It was thrown down a high embankment and three persons were killed, two fatally injured and more than a score of others seriously hurt. . . A special from Butler, Neb., where the fatuous Tonopah mines are situated, says: “A strike has Iteen made here which makes Tonopah without a doubt the richest mining c-amp in the world. The strike was made at 480 feet on the Mizpnh extension ledge.” J. It. Hunter, J. W. Woodworth, 11. P. Kauffer and S. N. Biekerstaff of the Henderson-Antes Company of Kalamazoo pleaded guilty to the charge of conspiracy to defraud the State of Michigan and were fined $2,000 each, excepting Bickerstaff, who must pay $1,200. At a meeting of the executive committee of the Lake Carriers’ Association in Cleveland, the wages of firemen and oilers were advances] to $52.50 per month. According to agreements made with officials of the union the new rate will hold for the remainder of the season. Virgil Garvin, one of the pitchers of Chicago team of the American League, shot and wounded a West Side saloonkeeper in Chicago, after having assaulted a policeman who sought to quiet the ball player, who was quarreling. Following the shooting Garvin escaped. Miss Benson, aged 70, and Mrs. Phillips, aged (50, residiug four miles east of Springfield, Ohio, were clubbed into insensibility and their house robbed by two tramps, who were angered because their request for food was refused. It is believed Mrs. Phillips is fatally injured. The Union Pacific Railway Company lias appealed to the United States Supreme Court in the ease in which the 'Supreme Court of Colorado decided that the Postal Telegraph Company could secure a right of way for its wires along the Union Pacific Railroad by condemnation. Three engines and two freight cars were demolished in a wreck on the Wabash Railroad, three miles east of Peru, Ind. An east-hound passenger train, drawn by two engines, collided with n through freight, both going ut high speed. The six enginemeu escaped without a scratch. Four of the eight counciltnen in Mexico, Mo., have resigned. The council has been divided on the snloon and Sunday closing question and these resignations are the result. Mayor Jones ordered City Marshal White to notify the business men that the Sunday law would he enforced in future. The leading messenger service company in Omaha advertised for girls to take the places of boys as messengers. All of the others, it is reported, will follow suit in a few days. The girls will ride bicycles, and only a few hoys will be kept to go where their sister employes cannot with propriety. Chief of Police Reddy of Spikane, Wash., was a passenger on a street ear that was held up by a highwayman, who compelled the conductor to give up bis cash. Then, brandishing his long gun, he commanded the passengers to contribute. Chief Reddy was unarmed ni.d says he was powerless. The coast of California, with the Golden (lute as the center of operations, probably will he the scene of the next strategic battle between fleets of the American navy. Naval men at Han Francisco station are discussing the plan entertained at Washington of holding fall maneuvers ou the Pacific coast. Judge Richnrdson held at Spokane, Wash., that a boycott is not illegal when peaceably conducted, and when not so conducted must Im* dealt with by the Criminal Court. He denied the application of a Japanese restaurant keeper for on injunction to s-top the aggressive boycott of the Cooks and Waiters’ Union. After a lapse of more than twenty-four hours, during which no word was received from three aeronauts who left Denver to try for n transcontinental balloon voyage to New York, n telegram came announcing that the airship hnil been wrecked in a storm twenty-seven miles north of Florence, Colo. Although hruisfd and somewhat frostbitten, the occupants were not seriously hurt. The Master Plumbera’ Association is declared to tie a trust, operating in violation of the Missouri anti-trust law in a petition filed in the Circuit Court at

Kansas City by W. R. Young, a local plumbey. He alleges that his business has been ruined by members of the combine, who have refused to sell him supplies because he was not a member. Young asks $30,000 damages. An attempt was made by two masked men to rob the Metropolitan Street Railway ear barn at Armourdnlo, Kan. Watchman Mirnsker was ordered to hold up his hands, but Policeman J. W. Morris entered. Morris dealt one of the jobbers a heavy blow on the head wi'h h'g dub and was shot through the heart and instantly killed by the second robber. Watchman Minsker was also shot and slightly injured. Both robbers made their escape*.