Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1902 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Fireman E. 11. Thorpe was killed in a collision between freight trains near Rifle, Colo. Secretary of State Cook of Mlasouri announces that the Democratic plurality in that State is 45,244. The Society of Western Artists, in iession at St. Louis, elected O. 11. Grover of Chicago as vice-president. Republican politicians at Indianapolis have started a boom for Gov. \V. T. Durbin for Vice-President In 1904. Hobnok’s Hotel nt Index, Wash., was destroyed by Arc and James Kelly, a mining man, perished in the flames. Fireman John Martin was killed in n licnd-end collision between freight trains on the Frisco Railroad near Sullivan, Mo. Judge Madden at Emporia, Kan., In the case against Prof. Vanora, a hypnotist, decided that a man has the right to bury his wife nlive. Beenuso he was jealous James Ross, aged 22 years, a negro, fatally siiot Mm 17-yenr-old wife nnd blew out his brains at Youngstown, Ohio. * Attorney It. C. Bneed, accused of einbeuleinent, died at Pocatello, Idaho, from morphine, supposed to have been taken with suicidal intent. M. M. Wheeler, aged 59 years, a wealthy farmer and atockman, committed

suicide by taking carbolic acid at his home in North Eureka, Kan. John Leach, brother of Thomas Leach, third baseman of the Pittsburg baseball club, was killed at Lorain, Ohio, by an explosion at the stove works. The burglar shot and killed at Elyria, Ohio, by Superintendent Hillien of the Cleveland, Elyria und Western Railway has been identified ns Pat Kinney of Pittsburg. The plant of the Massillon, Ohio, Stone and Fire Brick Company was destroyed by fire. The loss was about $50,000, partly covered by insurance. One hundred men are thrown out of employment. During a controversy over a board bill at Manchester, Ohio, James Masterson fatally'shot M. P. Brittingham, owner of the Hotel Bratt, and then killed himself. Brittingham was shot three times. Judge Adams in the United States District Court at St. Louis, Mo., sentenced on four counts John W. Holleck, a farmer and alleged pension agent, to ten years in the penitentiary for pension frauds. Two distinct shocks of earthquake were felt in Salt Lake City. Clocks were stopped in various parts of the city, but no serious damage is reported. The shock was felt at a number of points in In Utah. Seven fire insurance patrolmen were hurt in a fire on the thirteenth floor of the Royal Insurance building in Chicago; five injured while rescuing two others whom explosion knocked down. Money loss $1,500. Burlington switchmen in St. Joseph, Mo., have received an increase in wages of 4 cents an- hour and helpers hav# been advanced 3 cents an hour. Wages now are the same in St. Joseph, Kansas City and Chicago. One man was killed instantly and twelve other persons seriously injured in a collision between a broken freight train on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad and two Western avenue electric cars In Chicago. What is believed to be nn earthquake shock was felt at McPherson. Kan. Windows and doors shook and some of the taller buildings trembled, but no damage was done. As far as can be learned the shock was not felt in any other portion of- the State. In the United States District Court at St. Louis Judge Adams sentenced W. W. Chinn, proprietor of the Verona matrimonial bureau, to eighteen months in the Missouri penitentiary on the charge of using the mails to defraud. Chinn pleaded guilty. The State Board of Arbitration forced n settlement of the strike at the Buell woolen mills -at St. Joseph, Mo., and all the men, women and girls who left the plant three weeks ago will return to work. The employes gained most of their demands. Four masked robbers held up passenger train No. 7 on the Colorado and Southern Road twelve miles south of Trinidad, Colo. One of the robbers was shot by Express Messenger 11. W. Sherwick, of Fort Worth, Tex. The robbers secured no booty.

Five hundred students of the University of Colorado at Boulder went out on strike. They revolted over lessons during the quarto-centennial celebration. Girls who attended were threatened with ostracism and boys were told that they would be ducked in the lake. A secret meeting of the river men has been held in Cincinnati, and it is understood that a combination of interests on the Ohio river and its tributaries has been entered into. It is claimed that the community of interests will include all the independent packet lines. Corporal Edmond Perrin and Private David M. Milan were mysteriously assaulted nt the Presidio, San Francisco. So serious were the injuries received by tiie men that Perrin died and Milan is not expected to live. The authorities have been unable to find any trace of the assailants. Mrs. Roland 11. Molineaux, of New York City, whose arrival in Sioux Falls, S. D., caused a genuine sensation, authorizes the statement that she is in South Dakota to secure n divorce from her husband, who was recently acquitted of the charge of murder after two sensational trials. Three years in the penitentiary is the punishment meted out at Columbia, Mo., to Col. Edward Butler, whom a jury found guilty of trying to bribe Dr. Chapman, a member of the board of health in St. Louis, to favor a city garbage contract on which the millionaire politician sought to enrich himself. A lake of several acres used at the Cliff mine wns swallowed up in a cave-in on the Cranby land near Joplin, Mo. The mine still stands, but it has been abandoned. Many of the miners refused to go to work in it, as it lias settled a foot, and is liable to sink at any moment. Great cracks in the earth can be seen in the vicinity. Nenr Greenluml, Ohio, Pearl Justice and his brother met William Smith, who was returning from a hunting expedition. Smith told Pearl Justice to smell the muzzle of the gun. Justice did so and Smith pulled the trigger, blowing off the young man's head, killing him instantly. Smith claims that he did not know the gun wns loaded. The safe In the Arthur, lowa, branch bank of the Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company of Sioux City wns blown open by burglars, who made their escape with cash to the amount of $2,300. Soon after learning of the robbery the trust company took unusual steps to secure the capture of the thieves. The officers of the institution offered SI,OOO for the arrest of the robbers and accompanied the announcement with a proposition to give to the captors the $2,300 taken from the safe if the money Is recovered.