Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1902 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

A bright meteor illuminated Colorado and exploded near Buena Vista. Fire swept away the business portion of Savage, Neb., destroying twelve buildings and causing approximately loss of over sl*o,ooo. Four men were shot on a train near Osceola, Ark., as the result of a negro’s attempt to ride in the coach reserved for white passengers. Tlie steam barge 11. Houghton, owned in Detroit, sunk at her dock at tlie foot of Dubois street in that city. Two of the crew were drowned in their berths. Two electric cars on the Fort Snclling line collided at St. l’nnl, Minn., and ten victims of the wreck have been taken to the city hospital. None is fatally hurt. Mrs. John Holey and Mrs. John Carney, sisters, met in Springfield, Ohio, after u separation of fifty-one years of fruitless searching on the part of Mrs. Holey. Mrs. Nannie Porterfield, an attendant in the I. O. O. F. Home at Springfield, Ohio, died from tlte effects of excessive Joy over the expected visit of her uncle and aunt. The corn crop near Mexico, Mo., is almost beyond belief. Judge XV. I>'. Sumner reports that a forty-acre field northeast of there will easily yield 160 bushels to the acre. Janies Bydon, an attache of a wild west •how, who was charged with robbing a hotel, was shot and killed ut Perry, Ok., by Sheriff Foster while the olficer was trying to arrest him. It is reported that John Keffer, the condemned murderer who was to have been executed the other day, but who obtained a stay of execution, was taken from the Jail at Lander, Wyo., and lynched. Mrs. Addle X. Johnson, an advocate of women’s suffrage, who formerly resided at Chicago, committed suicide at her home in Cabanne, Mo. Despondency due to continued ill lieulth prompted the deed. The steumer Cottage City of the Pacific Const Steamship Company went on the rocks twenty miles south of Fort Wrangle. She is well sheltered ami it ij believed n bulkhead can be built inside and the ship tlonted. Fifteen bears have been shot within the limits of Duluth during tlie past sixty days, tlie fifteenth bciug shot the other day by a Lakeside man. Two bean* were killed by school boys, another was killed on tin* golf links. Frank Smith, a mechanic, nml John Ennis, a military convict from Fort Sheridan, 111, fall from a scaffolding St Leav-

enworth, ICan., and were killed while working on the smokestack at the tew federal penitentiary. John Sanders was arrested at Cornish, Vtah, and lodged in jail charged with the murder of John Pidock at Downey, on Aug. 23. Pidock’s body was thrown on a pile of burning ties and it was a mass of roasted flesh when found. George Ring and Tillie Hotzalfel entered into a compact to kill themselves and turned on the gas in their room in a Chicago hotel. They were discovered and revived after much effort, and now the man is held for attempted murder. Surprised while looting the residence of “Patsy” King, u wealthy sporting man in Chicago, a negro thief leaped over the stair balustrade from the second to the ground floor and made his escape with more than $4,000 worth of jewels. Announcement is made by Irwin Shepard, secretary of the National Educational Association, that the department of superintendents, numbering 1,000 of the leading educators of the United States, will meet in Cincinnati, Ohio, Feb. 24 to 27. — The Detroit and Southern and the Pere Marquette railroads have passed under the control of the Norfolk and Western Railway, which is controlled by the Pennsylvania. The port of Lmlington, Mich., also passed to the Pennsylvania Company. President Roosevelt has put his stamp of disapproval on the proposed cowboy race from Dead wood to Omaha and the contest has been abandoned. In addition to tlie President’s disapproval there have been received several protests from humane societies. Believing he was threatened with insanity, Nelson Rasmus, a farmer 30 years old. residing two miles south of Mount Union. lowa, repaired to a corn field with a shotgun, placed the muzzle to his forehead, pulled the trigger with his toe, and blew his head off. The safe of the .Hubbard, Ohio, postoffice was drilhsl open by burglars. They secured S4OO worth of stamps, S2OO from the money-order department, a certificate of deposit on tlie Newton Falls Bank for SSOO and $l5O belonging to the postmaster, W. M. Evans. William Neuroth expired suddenly in a Christian Science church at Denver, refusing medical attendance while the congregation sang and prayed for the dying man. Neuroth was a consumptive, and for awhile before becoming subject to the "healing” was rapidly improving. Win. J. Bartholin’s body was found in a flax field near Lowther, lowa, with a bullet hole through his head. He had committed suicide. Letter is found on the remains confessing that he killed his mother and Minnie Mitchell. The body was fully identified by Chicago acqunintii uces. John K. Murrell, former Speaker of St. Louis house of delegates, has returned front Mexico and confessed his part in wholesale bribery, admitted having custody of $75,000 intended for the gang and accused eighteen associates in city legislative body, who have been indicted by the grand jury. A band of whitecaps visited the home of Mat Sturgeon on the Wyckoff farm, five miles east of Bloomington, Ind., took Sturgeon out and gave him a severe whipping. Sturgeon’s wife was also tightly switched. Notices were left at the door of Rolia Sturgeon, near by, warning him to leave within a week. Floyd Johnson and Walter Hodge, both young men, quarreled over a game of dice in Columbus, Ohio, and Johnson was cut in the throat by Hodge, receiving wounds which caused his death. Hodge was arrested and held on charge of murder. His home is in Toledo. Johnson was a follower of race horses. A bloody battle was fought about ten miles east of Durant, I. T., between Rev. W. F. Whaley and his two sons, Alf and Ernest, on one side, and J. H. and J. A. .Richardson and their brother-in-law, Mr. Waltenberger, on the other. The elder Whaley was killed and Alf, his son, had both arms shot'to pieces. The United States ship Hawk, which has been used by the Ohio naval reserves, will he sent back to the Navy Department as a result of a squabble between the Toledo and Cleveland brigades of the reserves. The commanders were unable to agree ns to a division of time during which each should control the vessel. Daisy Carlton, a pretty young waitress at a chop-house in Bloomington, 111., shot und instantly killed Mrs. Joseph Leslie after the latter had horsewhipped her. Mrs. Leslie’s husband is employed fls cook in the restaurant where Daisy is waitress. Mrs. Leslie is said to have quarreled several times with the young girl for encouraging the alleged attentions paid to her by her husband. B. A. Rose, a banker of Fort Worth, Texas, and Miss Dorothy Weaver of the same city were married by l’rohate Judge Staffelbaeh in the baggage room of the Rock Island station at Wellington, Ivan., while the train on which they were traveling Ntnppt*d at the station. The bride was under IN, hut had her mother’s consent to wed,, and the opposition of male relatives was oircumvNuted by strategy. A dozen men, most of them members of the Taylor Methodist Church, swooped down on a “joint” in Kansas City, Ivan., the other night and tried to serve a warrant Issued by a justice of the peace for the arrest of the proprietor, Andrew Mathney. In a tussle that ensued Paul W. Rndamnckcr, a lumper, was shot through the hand and shoulder and stabbed and Deputy Constable (law was struck on the head and severely injured. A particularly atrocious murder was committed in Omaha when l’j'ter Olsen walked into the holm* of his sweetheart, and without a word of warning, shot the girl, Inflicting a fatal wound. After the shooting the murderer ran from the house and disappeared. The police fenr lie lias committed suicide. Olsen lias been jealous of the Peterson girl for some time. Recently he was forbidden the house. As Mary sat reading to her father, who i> a paralytic, sister and mother, Olsen walked in and tired without uttering a word. • The Oregon, a large ocean-going steamer, is now being fitted up at Seattle, Wash., for the purpose of taking a party of American manufacturers with exhibits on n six months’ cruise, beginning Nov. 15, to Russia, China. Japan, the Philippines. the Htralts Settlements, India. Mauritius, Smith Africa, Australia and the Hawaiian Islands, This, it is said, will he the forerunner of greater expansion to America’s coipmeree, being a unique and practical opportunity for buyers and sellers to become personally acquainted and discuss the exhibits and methods of packing and preparing goods

tor the various markets, establishing agencies, effecting sales and ascertaining the financial responsibility of interested persons. • - The Bank of Fremont, Ind., was .ebbed by a gang of six burglars and thii vault and front of the building were (/recked by dynamite. The noise of the explosion awakened persons living near t*,e bank, and when they started to iii/ostigate they were met by armed men a.id at the point of revolvers were ordered to stay in their houses. A large amorpt of currency was in the safe, but the robbers overlooked part of it, and secured only a small amount. When the robbers finished their work they entered carriages, driving north from the village towards the Michigan State line, followed by a large number of the inhabitants, hut they escaped.