Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1902 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Mrs. Amelia Oesterlin. who died nt Springfield. Ohio, left $75,099 to found an orphan*’ home in Springfield. Fred J. I’eifer, nged 42. a well-known bnainesH man of KatiHtis City, Mo., committed suicide by taking morphine. AugiiHtin Chacon was hanged at Solomonville, Arizona, for the murder of I’nblo Sulcido on Christmas day, 1895. Rear Admiral Schley was given a royal welcome at Kansas City, where he spoke at the banquet of the Commercial Club. The first refugees from that part of fiUiitemiila devastated by volcanic eruptions have reached Sim Francisco und tell a tide of suffering. One of two burglars who robbed the postoffice at West Farmington, Ohio, was captured, and gave the nume of Frank Howells, Johnstown, fa. The Senate Committee on Territories believes Oklahoma is entitled to statehood, although the members gave no public declaration to that effect. Arthur S. Dudley has been appointed tax commissioner of the Milwaukee railroad to succeed the late W. R. Milligan, His headquarters will belli Milwaukee. The steamer Chili of Buffalo was sunk in the Detroit river off Amherst burg ns the result of n collision with the steamers Owego and Buffalo nnd 11. B. Tuttle. During a tight among Indiana on the Rosebud reservation, South Dakota, inapsha, a Yankton Indian, was burned Io death and Mrs. Warbonnet was fatally injured. L. Collins, manager of the Smuggler Union mine, was shot in the buck and fatally injured at the Pandora mine near Denver. The assassin tired through n window. A special from Monte Yistn, Colo., says the Hotel Blanco lias been destroyed by fire. The loss is $75,000. The building belonged to the Travelers' Insurance Company. Mias Gertrude Young died at Minneapolis lifter n fast of five days and the coroner says he will take steps to secure the prosecution of the cult of which she nil* a member. Two hundred miners went on strike nt Athens, Ohio, as the result of the die-

charge of Mine Motorman Clarence Russell, who, instead of reporting for work, went rabbit hunting. The Engleville coal mine, six miles south of Trinidad, Colo., owned by the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, is on fire and the fire is beyond control. Two men have lost their lives. Col. O. J. Hopkins of Toledo, a noted artillerist and authority on Gatling gun tactics, was killed by a street car at Columbus. He was employed in the office of the adjutant general. Ivory white is the color decided upon by the Lohisiana Purchase Exposition officials for the buildings. Ivory white has a tinge of yellow, and in that respect' differs from the color of the Chicago fair. Charles Dillon, 30 years old, a special officer employed by the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Company, was shot and killed by a supposed freight car burglar In the railroad yards in Chicago. Judge Hudson in the District Court at Atchison, Kan., held that the new absentee railway employes’ law permitting railroad men to vote when away from home on election May is unconstitutional. The —Harbison-Walker —Refractiries Company has closed negotiations for the purchase of the Portsmouth-Kentucky Fire Brick Company at Portsmouth, (). The price, it is said, was close to $2,OOD.OOO. Lige Wells, a negro. < barged witli stabbing Max Campbell, an Iron Mountain passenger conductor, was taken from the officers at Wynne, Ark., by a mob of armed men. It is reported that he lias been lynched. In a circular letter the Great Northern Railway accepts as a fact the death of Benjamin F. Egan in the Northwest, and A. E. Long is appointed his successor, with the title of acting superintendent of the Kalispell division. Fifteen masked bandits derailed the fast west-bound express train on the Rock Island road three miles west of Davenport, lowa, dynamited the safe, securing all of its contents and making one of the largest hauls known for some time. DTsfrict JTulge Johnson has refused n~ jury trial to Julius Aichele, clerk of Arapahoe County, Colo., on the charge of contempt in certifying names on rhe registration lists before the late election after he hnd been enjoined from doing so. Mrs. Albert Sech test of Kansas City, principal witness for the State in the case of Dr. Louis Zorn, charged with killing her husband, was found nt Lincoln, Nob., and admitted she had been in hiding. Mrs. Sechrist wished to avoid testifying. At St. Louis United States Secret Service Agent Murphy announced that Mar tin Ferguson, ex-treasurer of Butler County, Ark., and his son, William, had confessed to having manufactured and passed counterfeit silver half and quarter dollars. Fire at Lake Contrary, near St. Joseph, Mo., destroyed most of the barns at the race track and damaged other property. The grand stand, which had a seating capacity of 20,000 people, was damaged. The loss will probably amount to $20,000. Rev. ('. M. Sheldon is at the head of a movement to establish at Topeka a life insurance company that will only write policies on the lives of Christian people and total abstainers. All the churches of the United States are to he asked to nasisf the organization. The police in Denver arrested M. Kraus, of Chicago, charged with stealing diamonds from F. E. Morse & Co., of Chicago. The prisoner admits the theft and says the gems are in the Mas<tiic Temple safety deposit vaults. He mailed the key of his box to the firm. Fire destroyed the ferry building owned by the Southern Pacific at the Alameda Mole, Alameda, Cal., and nine men who were nsleep in the bunkhouse narrowly escaped with their lives. It is estimated that the loss, including coaches and building, will amount to S3OO.<X)O. Edward Saatkamp, accountant und acting superintendent of the Ross Moyer Machinery Tool Company, was killed at the factory on Sycamore street. Cincinnati. His body was found in a pool of blood mid every indication in the counting room of a struggle, lint no clew to the deed can be found. Sheriff I’arkeY of Towner County, N. D.. plehded guilty in the United StatesCourt and was fined $1,500. Parker was charged with liberating prisoners, chiefly Indians mid half-breeds, sentenced to his jail by the United States Court, and also continuing to file bills of expense for their maintenance for the full terms of sentence. An Omaha paper printed a story to tile effect that a package of currency, in amount $40,000. consigned from Kansas City to IJortland, was stolen at the open door of the express car of th<> "Portland Special” in front of the Burlington station at Lincoln, Neb. Officials of the Adams Express Company and the Burlington Road denied that any such robbery had taken place. The Secretary of the Interior has approved mi agreement which has been reached between the government ami the Mille Lac Chippewa Indians in Minnesota under which the Indians take $40,<*K) in compensation for their removal from the lands they now occupy outside the reservation. Most of the Indians will settle on the White Earth reservation and others on public hinds in the neighborhood. To secure control of the potato crop of the Northwest, with a view of cornering the market and advancing the price to 60 cents a bushel by Dec. 15, is said to he a plan now being carried out by Armour & Co. of Chicago. Agents of the firm are re|s>rted to be busy in Michigan, Minnesota mid other hMe potato producing States buying up nil the potatoes offered nt 16 or 17 cents n bushel. These men are said to bo pushing their buying with nil possible dispatch in order to make the contemplated ndvnnce in prices possible nt mi early ditto, mid many train loads of the tubers are said to lie ready for shipment to cold storage warehouses <*oiitrolled by the firm. The Wisconsin Central ore docks burned nt Ashland, Win., causing a loss of two Ilves mid about $500,000 in pro|H erty. Twenty persons, Including firetuen nnd business men, who aided in fighting the Annies, were injured. The loss is covered by insurance. The fire broke out in the Central ore docks mid spread rauldly. About tldrty workmen who were on the dock when the fire started were cut off from land. They made for the outer er.d of the dock nnd were nearly overtaken by the flames wlii'ii n tug went to their relief. The fire startisl presmunbly from n boat mi Imi<l in g lumber across the slip, mid before the firemen arrived the entin* ore dock, half a mile long, was in flames.

An engine was run on the tramway as near to the fire as it could get and half a hundred men began tearing apart the timbers connecting the tramway and the dock to keep it from falling with the dock. Suddenly the dock gave way, falling with a crash and carrying with it 200 feet of the tramway, the engine just barely escaping the fall into the bay. Several hundred persons were under the tramway, but most of them escaped with slight injuries.