Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1902 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Heavy rain has extinguished the forest fires in southern Wyoming and northern Colorado. Mrs. Nancy Webb of Canton, Ohio, choked by a crumb of bread, fell end broke her neck. Louis W. Pierce of Minneapolis, a wellknown dealer In farm lands, committed suicide by shooting. Peter Olsen, murderer of Mary Peterson of Omaha, was killed by a pursuing posse nr nr Bancroft, Neb. The stamp mill and cyanide plant of the Columbian Gold Mining Company at York, Mont., was burned. Loss SSO,(MM). Grace Mackey, aged 22. a school teacher of Newark, Ohio, committed suicide by taking carbolic acid while temporarily insane.

Harry Strong, adopted son of Dr. Treat Payne of New York, is dead in Salt Lake from the bullet wound inflicted by Miles Romney, a saloonkeeper. Benjamin Waddle, who gave the county a SOO,OOO children’s home, has donated the city of Marlon, Ohio, land valued at $«) ,000 for an old women's home. Howard Page, a real estate broker of Kansas City, pleaded guilty to the change of embezzling nearly SI,OOO and was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. Two boys cut the ropes holding a balloon at Toledo, Ohio, nnd were carried six miles, but the balloon landed after half an hour nnd the buys were not hurt. The most destructive prairie fire iu the history of Beadle County, B. D., is reported. Not a graiu or hny stack is leftstanding In an area twelve miles long by five wide. Louis Von Roseau, a prominent German mining expert, was imprisoned thirty hours hi n Grouse mountain tunnel, near Cripple Creek, Colo., owing to a cave-in, but was not hurt; The business portion of Taylor's Falla, Minn., has been practically wiped out by fire, seventeen structures being destroy-

ed. The loss is about $25,000, and It is doubtful if the city will be rebuilt. ' Night Marshal Kale was killed in a battle with burglars at Goldfield, Colo. Two shots pierced his heart, another entered the mouth and still another shattered his left hand. The burglars escaped. An Akron, Kent and Ravenna electric car jumped the track oi? Water street at Kent, Ohio, and ran into a telephone pole. A dozen passengers were on the car and all of them were more or less seriously injured. At Choctaw, O. T., an east-bound freight train ran into the rear of the Sells-Downs show train, killing two persons and wounding twenty-six others. The killed are Harry Williams and an unknown negro. The trustees of the Childs-Drexel International Union Printers’ Home at Colorado Springs have forwarded necessary papers to the Secretary of State of Colorado to shorten the corporate name to the "Union Printers’ Home.” Three masked robbers blew up the postoffice safe at Jefferson, Ohio, with dynamite, stole $250 in cash and SBOO in stamps, boarded a south-bound train and escaped; Night Watchman Lawrence Jones was bound, blindfolded and gagged. President Roosevelt was operated on at Indianapolis for abscess on leg due to injury sustained in Pittsfield, Mass., accident, and abandoned his western tour, returning to Washington. Physicians say he is in no danger and expect quick recovery. Trip of President Roosevelt came near being marred by another tragedy, two little girls narrowly escaping death under his carriage nt Detroit. Large crowds -filled the streets and gave noisy welcome whenever their guest made an appearance. In a fight among feudists at Spokogee, I. T., four men were killed, one mortally wounded and several others slightly wounded. The dead are Willis Brooks and his sons, Clifford and John Brooks of the Brooks faction, and Riddle of the Riddle faction. Bowling along at top speed, a crowded Elston avenue electric car jumped the track in Chicago, and, running across the sidewalk, crashed into a dwelling. More than a score of the fifty passengers were severely injured, and the car and house were damaged. Mrs. Mintue A. Baker, a widow of St, Louis, has sued the city and health officials for $1(3,000 damages, alleging that two of her children died of tetanus resulting from tlie use of impure antitoxin furnished by the city, and that another child became ill.

Game Warden Alber Kirmse of Fremont, Ohio, shot and killed Ferdinand Bork, a prominent farmer. The officer was endeavoring to arrest Bork’s s >ns for violation of the game laws when the father slashed Kirmse with a corn cutter and the latter shot in self-defense. Big Four train No. 2, with William J. Bryan on board, struck a yard engine at the New Jersey street crossing in Indianapolis. The pilots of the engines were smashed and they were sent to the shop for repairs. The wreck caused considerable delay. Mr. Bryan was not injured. The dead body of a man supposed to be that of Jeremiah O'Shaughnessy, a commercial traveler from Rochester, N. Y. was found lying near the Nickel Plate Railway track at the foot of Amherst street, in East Cleveland, Ohio. The man’s skull was crushed and it is supposed that he was struck by a train. Moses T. Hale, ex-City Treasurer of Colorado Springs, charged with embezzlement of SIO,OOO of city funds, withdrew his plea of not guilty and pleaded guilty in the District Court. Judge Leeds suspended sentence, saying that it appeared that the shortage, which was incurred through the defendant’s generosity to friends, had been settled by his brother.

The Rhoades-Carmean Buggy Company of Marshalltown, lowa, one of the largest manufacturers of carriages in the West, made an assignment. A. C. Trice and A. A. Moore of that city were named as assignees, and the factory wili be closed temporarily until an invoice is taken. The assets are scheduled at $266,507.66, and the liabilities at $212,262.73. There are about 100 creditors. The Marshalltown State Bank is the largest creditor, wjth a claim of $40,000, which the president of the bank %ays is fully secured. The Nebraska Central Irrigation Company has completed arrangements for the construction of a $3,000,000 power Mid irrigation canal, and the work of building it will begin In a short time. The canal will divert the water of the Loup river from a point near West Point through the canal to an immense reservoir near Columbus. From this reservoir the water will have a fall of ninety feet, with an outlet into the Platte river, and besides furnishing 20,000 horse power will irrigate several, thousand acres of land.