Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1902 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Three children were burned to death in the home of Alfred Durkee at Pellston, Mich. The hank at Hillsboro, N. M., wns held tip by one man la broad daylight uSH robbed of $30,000. Carlo, n bird dog taken to lowa last June, returned to his first home at Madison, Ind., making the 700-mile trip overturn]. Property worth $150,000 wns destroyed at lycmlville, Colo., “Pap" Wyman House, one of the landmarks, being burned. One man is known to be dead and several others were injured in a collision on the Northern Pacific Railway near Fridley. Minn. J. I). Rockefeller glvtii a Christmas gift of $1,(XX),000 to University of Chicago, with an additional of $220,000 to ninktSup n deficit in the budget. The Rid path Hotel, valued nt SBO,OOO, was ruined by fire at Hpokane, Wash. No one wns injured and the guests saved almost all of their personal effects. The shore end of the Pacific cable was successfully landed and spliced at San Francisco, the ceremony being witnessed by a crowd of over 30,(XX) persons. lowa State crop report shows $50,000.000 loaa to farmers by ralus; 53 par cant

of corn soft and unsalable; oats yield worth one-half of 1901; potatoes 1,000,000 bushels under 1901. Judge Jervis W. Carter, former private secretary of Gov. Sheldon and district attorney of the fourth judicial district of Dakota territory, was found dead in bed at Sioux Falls, 8. D., aged 72, from heart failure. John Mitchell was given a public welcome at Spring Valley, 111. He declared in speech that anthracite strike settlement is beginning of movement, backed by public sentiment, to abolish necessity for strikes. In an opinion the Supreme Court at Jefferson City, Mo., reversed the verdict of the St. Louis Circuit Court that found guilty Emil A. Meysenhurg, charged with bribery, and remanded the case for retrial. Judge John W. Henry died at his home in Kunsas City, after a long illness. He formerly was chief justice of the State Supreme Court and nt the time of his death was judge of division No. 2 of the Circuit Court at Kansas City. A Rock Island north-bound passenger train ran into a broken rail near Terrill, I. T., and was badly wrecked. Engineer George Clark and Fireman George Wells of Fort Worth were killed. None of the passengers was seriously hurt. As the result of a quarrel over the payment of 70 cents for drinks John Engles, a St. Louis bartender, shot Anton Steinbeckcr, proprietor of the saloon, killing him, and seriouily wounded .Willis S.» Gibbs, a street car motorman. Harry G. Richards, claiming to be an attorney from New York, is in Lincoln, Neb., engaged in spending $25,000 which he says he received as a fee in the Colorado Fuel and Iron case while in Denver. He got rid of SIO,OOO in two days. While her father was attempting to chastise her Madge Bell, 18 years old. drew a revolver and fired nt him. The bullet clipped a lock of hair from Hell's bend. The girl was arrested and lined. Bell is a farmer and lives near Seymour. lowa. In St. Louis Judge Ryan overruled the motion for a new trial filed by attorneys for Robert M. Snyder, the banker and promoter of New York and Kalians City, convicted of bribery, and formally sentenced him to five years in tho penitentiary. Five men are reported killed in the wreck of a local freight train on the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad four miles west of Bueklin, Ohio. The locomotive of the train plunged through a bridge spanning Yellow Creek and part of the train followed. The corrugating mills, the pnint shop, the storeroom and the four west side mills of the American Sheet Steel Company, nt Canal Dover, Ohio, burned, causing n loss of over $1,000,000, ueuily $750,000 in finished product, and the li'alunce in buildings and machinery. The consciences of Hamilton, Ohio, ministers will not permit them longer to impose on Sunday school children at the annual Christmas entertainments. Santa Claus must go, according to the unanimous action taken nt the meeting of the Hamilton ministerial alliance. Almost $1,000,000 business in one day. That is what the transactions in the money-order division of the Chicago postoffice amounted to Wednesday, making a new record for the office. The total business of the office was $991,922.08, represented by 30,505 separate transactions. Passenger car No. 4 and an Inspectors’ car came together on the Lake Shore Electric line, six miles east of Lorain, Ohio. Motorman Arnold, in charge of the passenger car, was cut and burned so badly that he will die. Both cars caught fire and were reduced to ashes. Total loss is $20,000. The town of Florence is to be erased from the map and a lafge industry, involving millions of dollars and employing hundreds of men, planted there, according to a well-founded report. Options on every lot have been secured, which stipulates for possession on April 1. Florence is a suburb of St. Joseph. Mo. A farmer of the name of Evans, living uear Kearney, Neb., burned his house and barns, valued nt several thousand dollars, and then took a dose of strychnine, from which he died. While suffering from the effects of the drug he accused his wife of poisoning him, and drove her from the place nt the point of a shotgun. James A. Norton, Congressman from the Thirteenth Ohio District, has served notice of contest of election on A. H. Jackson of Fremont, his successful «>pponent in the recent election, on the grounds of irregularity in the easting of votes, corruption, etc. Jackson carried the district by 327, which is normally G,OOO Democratic.

While the William creek and Grant's pass stage wns on ita way out to Williams, Ore., a young fellow with a red mask appeared from the woods and commanded the driver nnd one passenger to hold up their hands. There was nothing else to he done but comply. Tlie mall bags were opened nnd sls in registered mutter secured. Two men were instantly killed, two perhaps fatally burned and a number of others less seriously injured by an explosion of gas in the Cleveland water works tunnel 100 feet below the bottom of Lake Erie. The cause of the explosion, it is believed, wns a spark from the joining of two electric light wires in the tunnel, which Ignited the accumulated gas. Judge Hnllett of the United State* District Court at Denver, Colo., has issued injunctions against Treasurer Elder of the city and county of Denver restraining him front selling the property of the railrouds nnd express companies doing business there for the taxes of JlM)l, which nre being withheld on the ground that the assessment was illegal. Dr. Wyman, government physician at the Sac nnd Fox Indian agency in Oklahoma, announces that more than half of the members of the trilie nre nttllcted with tuberculosis, scrofula nnd other incurable diseases. He adds that the tribe will he prnctienlly annihilated within n few years. The Intest report says there are but 479 of this once powerful people left. Judge John I. Mullins, of the County Court of Arapuhoe County, Is one of the most tnlked of men in Colorado nowadays. He It was who sentenced Mayor R. R. Wright nnd eleven Aldermen of Denver to jail for four months for disregarding an injunction to prevent the pnesnge of an ordinance giving the street railwny, Interests a perpetual monopoly of the streets. I’enrl Hart, the fomnle stage robber, wns paroled by GoV. lirodie of Arixona on tbs recommendation of the board of

control and the prison superintendent. She held up a, stage in company with Joe Boot between Florence and After a chase of several days by a‘ posse the fugitives were apprehended and most of the booty recovered. The woman was sentenced to prison for five years in 1899. Mrs. Robert Garrison, the middleaged wife of a farmer near Bedford, Mich., was murdered the other dny. The murderer is alleged to be a farm hand employed by the Gnrrisons in the summer. Mr. Garrison was in Battle Creek at the time. Johh Brantlinger, who has been employed on a neighboring farm to the Garrisons since last fall, was arrested at Battle Creek, charged with being Mrs. Garrison’s murderer. Bruntlinger, who claims to be entirely innocent of the crime, was arrested while on his way to take a Grand Trunk train. Mr. Garrison n short time ago sold his farm for $1,400, nnd it is supposed that a desire to get possession of the money was the principal cause of the murder.