Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1902 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Two men were killed, four fatally, nnd others seriously injured in an explosion at Victor mine, Pawnee, 111. Total registration in Chicago is 340,707, I lie figure being below mark set by various campaign managers. tlov. Nash of Ohio has granted a pardon to Mrs. F. V. Taylor and daughter, convicted of kidunpiag little Margaret Taylor. John Momnrck of Tyndall, H. I), shot Anna Vachten and then committed suicide. It is said ho shot the girl because she had jilted him. The directors of the Lewis nnd Clark exposition at Portland, Ore., in 1903 have asked the Slate of Oregon for an appropriation of SSOO,(XX), The Pentecost baud has prepared plans for n national orphans’ industrial -chool thut will nocommodnto 500 children to be located near Indianapolis, lnd. Fire at Lexington, Mo., destroyed the city 100 plant, HofTman’s brewery and bottling worka, Huerle’s warehouse and several dwellings. lais* SIOO,OOO. Death dismissed the charge of forgery in the first degree against Hubert P. Wallace. The young man died at the city hospital In St. Paul of henrt failure. Minneapolis banks are said to nave suffered losses of S4O,(XX) through the operntions of Edwin T. Blow and Thomas Armstrong, nr res ted on charges of forgory. John I’. Sullivan, aged 25, on route from Phoenix, Arix., to his home at Woodstock. Ohio, died In his berth on a Santa Fe passenger train near Mureelino. Mo. At Nt. Joseph, Mo., William Culps, aged 18, was convicted of murdering his mother, Kllzu Catos, three mouths ego. It is claimed Ids object was to get possession of the estate.' A telephone message to the police station in Lincoln, Neb., from the town of Woodlawn says the St. Louis-Pacific coast Burlington express was held up

there. The train left Lincoln shortly after 1 a. m. Woodlawn is about ten miles from Lincoln. Fire destroyed the entire business portion of the town of Klnmathon at the crossing of the Klamath river in Siskiyou County, California, causing a total loss estimated at $350,(XX1. The Minnesota Supreme Court held to be constitutional that part of, the primary election law prohibiting placing on the official ballot the name of a candidate defeated nt a primary election. Mrs. James T. Kelly, n member of a theatrical company, which has been touring Kentucky, committed suicide by jumping from a steamboat into the Ohio river between Louisvillp and Madison, Ind. In Butte, Mont., J. W. Kelly, editor of the Interinoun in, shot Dr. A. 11. Cayley, a prominent resident. Cayley, it».is believed, will die. The shooting is said to have resulted from trouble over a woman. * Alfred Buffo, at Mexico, Mo., was found guilty and given two years in the penitentiary for the murder of his wife, Sophia Buffo. His daughter. Mi*. Safina Belk of Troy, 111., testified against her father. Independent packers will build and operate a large packing plant in South St. Joseph, Mo., to fight the big beef merger. A representative of an independent packers’ organization has been in South St. Joseph gathering data. Michael Cudahy, president of the Cudahy Packing Company, has just leased two sections of oil land in the Osage nnd Cherokee nations and is quoted as saying that his company will spend $2,000,000 in developing the property. At Keota, Mo., a mining village, several buildings, including the general merchandise store of Ed Vail, were badly damaged by a storm. Frank Chnritina, an Italian coal miner, was seriously hurt, and several others are reported Injured. William P. Woods, an employe in Armour's packing house, shot and killed Charles Duciiesneau, proprietor of the Virginia Hotel, at 425 West Fifth street, Kansas City. Woods, who surrendered to tiie police, asserts that Duchesneau had insulted Mrs. Woods. At B<X) feet depth the largest body of bonanza ore ever opened up in Cripple Creek has been struck in the already famous producer, the Wild Horse mine of the United Mines Company. Results from assays have been reached showing from $l4O to $1,120 a ton. An entire family near Evansport, Ohio, has been poisoned by eating picnic linin. pus up by one of the large packing houses. As a result nil 18-months-old child is dead. The victims were Mr. and Mrs. James Christy, their little son Roy, nnd a hired man named Brace. Mrs. James Keller of Springfield, 0., while temporarily insane, took her infant child to Snyder Park in the absence of her husband and leaped into the lagoon with it. Her husband traced her immediately and succeeded in rescuing the mother alive, but the child was dead. Three masked men held up Burlington train No. 41, the Pacific coast express, near Woodlawn, four miles out of Lincoln, Neb., at 1 o’clock Saturday morning, and secured a large sum, principally in gold coin. The estimates ou the booty range all tlie way from $‘2,000 to $50.000. All attempt was made on the life of the Rev. J. if. Jackson, pastor of the Euclid Avenue M. E. Church of Topeka, Kail. The would-be assassin fired a shot at the minister in the latter's own yard and lied, without inflicting injury. Mr. Jackson lias been very active in the antisaloon agitation. The eight-hour schedule has gone into effect nt all the flour millß in Minneapolis. Hereafter there will be three instead of two shifts. Wliile the millwrights did not identify themselves with the eighthour movement it has been understood thnt tlie rate of 35 cents an hour would apply equally to them. East-bound Big Four freight No. 90 ran into the rear of freight No. 72 in the center of the Wabash river bridge at Terre Haute. The caboose on the front train was split and fell into tin* river nnd tlie engine nnd one car loaded with poultry were completely wrecked. Two men were killed nnd six seriously injured. An edict lias been issued by Principal Waterhouse of the Omaha High School forbidding the use of mirrors of any kind during school hours. All tlie student lockers were opened and all mirrors confiscated. The principal explains that too much time is given to making toilet* by the young women during school hours. After writing n letter to his relatives, Joseph Plotke, aged 70 years, hanged himself to the transom of his room nt S(XXI Olive street, Rt. Louis, where he was found dead. Plotke was paralysed a year ago and in his farewell letter asked nil Jews to pray to God to forgive him for ids act, as lie felt his period of usefulness had passed. The wooden steamer C. It. Lockwood foundered in u storm about fifteen miles off Ashtabula, Ohio. The captain nnd the crew succeeded in launching two bents just before the steamer went down. One of tlie boats containing tlie captain was picked up. The other boat lias not yet been heard from. It contained ten members of tlie crew. James Pendleton, Mayor of Gentry, Mo., convicted of bigamy, was sentenced at Emporia, Ivan., to five years in tlie penitentiary, tlie extreme | tonally. Pendleton, under the assumed name of Goda S. Morris, married Miss Graee Obley of Emporia n few months ago, and later, under the name of John (’ox, buried a coffin containing ice nt Orlnudo, Ok., and circulated the report that Coda R. Morris had been killed in a runaway. Pendleton has a family ut Gentry. At Tracy, Minn., Ed Strieker shot and killed his wife nnd young sou, seriously wounded Frank McCallister and then committed suicide. Strieker nnd his wife had lieen living apart for two years. The other afternoon he followed his wife into McCgllister'a furniture store nnd drawing n revolver shot her dend. After tiring another bullet through the head of their little boy lie turned Ids weapon ou ids father-in-law, L. Harvey. The shot wounded Mct’ollister, who is in a critical condition.