Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1902 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The cotton gin of O’Brien & Byrd nt Long Grove. 1. T., was destroyed by fire. Loss $50,000, fully insured. Judge Clifford, in Chicago, decided that Josephine Mollit has no wifely claim on William Wallace Pike. Appeal from the decision was taken. The Minnesota Supreme Court, by upholding a decision of the Ramsey County Probate Court, has declared the inheritance tnx law to be unconstitutional. Frank Smith, aged 25, who shot nnd killed Perry Oxley mid Charles Brown nt Gloucester Aug. 20, wns found guilty of murder in the second degree nt Athens, Ohio. Willinm Souders, un aged farmer, nnd his wife were struck by a passenger train nt a crossing near Lamar, Mo., while driving over the trneks nnd killed instantly. Three attempts were made by Incendiaries to burn buildings nt Yankton, 8. I)., only one of which wns successful, resulting in the burning of Daniel Piggott’s bnrn. The Bank of Aurora, S. D.. was robbed. but the electric alarm sonnilcd nnd three burglars were caught. Ono of them was shot twice in the leg. They nre local toughs. The Ohio Supreme Court hits hnndol down a decision in the case of the city of Cleveland versus Clement Brothers, in which it declared the contested eighthour labor Inw unconstitutional. Michael Shields, chief electricinn at Armour’s packing plant at South Otnahn,

was found lying dead the other morning, his hands grasping a bunch of live wires. He had evidently committed suicide. A strong flow of natural gas was struck near Jasper, Mo„ at a depth of 173 feet, forty feet of jack ore intervening. After striking the gas the drill went down (thirty feet U-fore meeting resistance. A son was born to the wife of W. A. Clark, Jk, at Butte, Mont., winning the SI,(XX),(X>O gift which Senator W. A. Clark offered to his sons and daughters a year ago for the first grandson presented to him. The Empire State Mining Company has struck another vein of gold at Cripple Creek. The men at the head of the company are Kilbour & Williams of Chicago, who made the first big strike in the Isabella mine. Boiler explosion in the plant of the Swift Packing Company at the Chicago stock yards caused thirteen deaths, twenty more being injured. Buildings were destroyed and shock like that of an earthquake was felt. The St. Louis flyer on the Big Four was wrecked on a high embankment half a mile west of Avon, Ind. Three passengers were seriously injured and a dozen or more were slightly hurt, hut allare expected to recover. Official figures of the election in Idaho show that the majority of French (Republican) for Congress wns 7.05(5 and of Morrison (Republican) for Governor 5,853. The Legislature stands 50 Republicans and 17 Democrats. At Armourdale, Kun., Ernest Damns tmd Charles W. Tucker, packing house employes, fought a pistol duel over Mabel Randall, a waitress. Damns was mortally wounded, but before he died he shot Tucker twice, fatally wounding him. Three men were killed in a boiler explosion in a sawmill at Alger, Ohio. The dead are C. A. Gruder, Albert Arminstant and Oscar Declar. The men were employed nt the mill and were at work when suddenly a huge boiler exploded. Mrs. Charlotte Hemingway committed suicide at the Knickerbocker Hotel at San Francisco. She wns n resident of Cincinnati until five months ago, when she left for-Chicago and was married to Robert Hemingway, a race horse owner. The centennial of Ohio's admission to the Union, which is to be celebrated in Chillicothe. Ohio, May 21 and 22. 1903, is to lie made of national importance ami the President mid Governors of all States in the I’nion will be Invited to participate. The “Gohlen Gate Limited.” on the Rock Island road ran into a freight engine at Herington, Kan., derailing the passenger engine and six coaches. Engineer Grogan was fatally injured and Fireman “■McCarthy had his collar bone ■broken. Mrs. Kate Y’ance, a colored woman of Newton, Kan., died, aged 123 years. Mrs. Vance had a daughter 90 years < f age and her husband died at the age of 105. She remembered with distinctness Jefferson’s administration and the war of 1812. I’irc at Monticello, lowa, destroyed East wood & Chase's hardware store, entailing a loss of $35,000; damaged Sleeper's mercantile store $3,500 and destroyed the oflices of Dr. F. A. Hefner, Dr. George Inglis and Attorney Reed, with a loss of $5,000. William Zimmerman, a wealthy farmer, and his son were beaten and robbed by two negroes while on a lonely country road near Lawrence, Kan. The elder Zimmerman's skull was crushed and he is in a dangerous condition. Botli were unconscious when found. Mrs. Josephine Hunter, aged 70 years, and a woman who was her guest, aged about 00 years, drank poison and both are dead. It is supposed the two women took a mixture of chloral and arsenic. Mrs. Hunter lived alone in a little cottage in East Akron, Ohio. Wesley Reynolds, a youth of 16, displayed rare heroism in a single-handed fight with four bank robbers at Westville. Ind., and lost his life in a desperate struggle, which he kept up after having been twice wounded with bullets. The robbers obtained no booty. Within a few miles of the scene of some of the most noted crimes of the days of Jesse James and his accomplices, two men made an unsuccessful attempt to hold up the east-bound /Viton passenger train at Independence, Mo. A plucky brakeman resisted and drove them off. J. J. McCartin, who admits that he is an impostor who has swindled members of various fraternal organizations in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana. Illinois and other States for a year past, is under arrest in Hamilton, Ohio, charged with obtaining money under false pretenses. Richard M. Parmely, president of the American Exchange National Bank, was found dead in his room at the Lennox, in Cleveland. Deputy Coroner West viewed the remains, and informed the hotel authorities that death bad probably resulted from rheumatism of the heart. Bert McNutt, 2(5 years old, committed suicide ut his parents' residence in Des Moines by shooting himself through the head. At noon he was to have married Miss Maggie Guth of East Des Moines. Friends say he had acted strangely several days, nnd they believe he was’ demented. Fire broke out in the business part of the town of Rochford, S. D. A high wind was blowing mid the fire spread with great rapidity. It soon enveloped the only business street of the camp in flumes. The camp has no fire department and nearly every building in the town was destroyed. Fred Kohleepp. a prominent jeweler of l/owiston, Minn., wns hurried on a special train over the Chicago and Northwestern road to receive surgical attention for wounds accidentally suffered at the hands of his hunting companion, Conrad Newman. The train covered the twentyfour miles in twenty-five minutes. The coroner's jury, after investigating the death of Christ Knudson at Blnck Duck, Minn., finds that the deeeusiM came to his death as n result of violence probably nt the hands of Paul Latuay nnd others. Lnniny has been arrested, charged with murder. Knudson was found unconscious on the sidewalk. He was a stranger there. John 8. Mosby, special inspector of the United States land office of Washington, has arrived in Omaha and will l>egin proceedings nt once for the removal of fences from government land in .Nebraska. Col. Mosby said that tracts containing thousands of acres have been fenced illegally by cattle men nnd thnt his object miii to have these fences torn down. The Terre Hnute Street Railway Company obtained a franchise from the

County Commissioners after bttsineg* hours the other night, nnd' later laid down ties and rails for half a mile west of the city on a proposed traction line to Paris, 111. The purpose was to head off a company organized in Paris by former Congressman Andrew Hunter and United States Marshal Hitch.