Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1902 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Judge Phillips at Cleveland held Mayor Johnson’s tux bureau to be Illegal. Because of jealousy, John W. Williams fatally shot his wife and killed hlmaelf at St. Joseph, Mo. Philip Nagel was convicted at Upper Sandusky, Ohio, of the murder of his friend, William Wade. Fire at Huron, S. destroyed the Huron Opera House, owned liy W. L. Miner and valued at $-5,000. Believing she was becoming insane, Mrs. W, \V. Jones of Rock port, Ohio, committed suicide hy ’ shooting. John Bowers, superintendent of a mine, was fro/,ett to death iti the Greenhorn district of Oregon, He was 04 years of age. .Four men were killed and several In-' Jtired in n collision on the Burlington Railroad, two miles west of Table Bock. Neb. Ilurry Been, a mantel setter, and Ids wife wore both found uucolfecious in their imd at rtietr home in Columbus, Ohio. The symptoms urc those of morphine

poisoning and it is believed the couple will die. Attorney Thomas E. Steele and Mrs. Anna T. Miller were convicted at Columbus, Ohio, of conspiracy to blackmail. A St. Louis hotel keeper has been held responsible for the death of a guest who perished in a fire, and widow awarded $5,000 damages. The Nebraska Supreme Court has decided that the marriage of divorced persons within six months of the granting of a decree in that State is void. Governor-elect Mickey of Nebraska refuses to countenance an inaugural ball, and has stopped the preparations for the annual function at the State capital. Plans for a palatial library building for Stanford University, to cost SOOO, 000, prepared by Architect Clinton Day, have been accepted by Mrs. Stanford. Twenty persons were killed and twen-ty-seven injured in the collitiiou between the southlsjund Los Angeles Owl limited train and the Stockton . flyer on the Southern Pacific at Byron, Cal. The My-I’rodiict Paper Company, with a central plant at Niagara Falls, will start flax liber mills at various points in North Dakota. The product will be sent East to he manufactured into tine banknote paper.

Mathias 11. Utzler, alias John Brantlinger, pleaded guilty at Hastings, Mich., to the murder of Mrs. Robert Garrison in Johnstown Township, and was sentenced to solitary confinement at hard labor for life. Itt. Rev. \V. 11. Hare of Sioux Falls, S. I)., Episcopal bishop of Sioux Falls, is under the care of physicians in Aberdeen for injuries received in a runaway in the country west of Aberdeen. Increase in wages averaging 8 per cent is granted by the Northwestern road to S,(KM) engineers and firemen. Strike of s,kK>o Chicago woodworkers is threatened because manufacturers are said to be planning war oil union labor. The four-story Salinger flats, Fortylift h street and Evans avenue, burned -tn Chicago. Explosion of gas range caused quick fire; twelve families escaped with loss of goods; Acorn brass plant, Peoria and Fulton streets, was also destroyed. The jury in the May ease at Bismarck, N. !>., brought in a Verdict of acquittal after being out only two hours. ‘May was charged with killing Ilarry Ilibbs last January. May was discharged from custody immediately upon the return of the verdict. Crossing in front of a rapidly moving electric ear in Chicago, a carriage with its four occupants was struck and overturned, the driver being injured so that he may not recover. The carriage was demolished. The party was returning front a funeral. During the recent unveiling of the monument to Louis Kossuth in*'Cleveland, a project was informally start-1 by representative Hungarian-Ainericaus to erect a statue of George Washington in Hungary’s capital—Buda-IVsth—by popular subscription. Judge J. A. Lewis, a pioneer, 7t> years old, and bis aged wife were murdered by unknown robbers, who, after a struggle, brained the old man with ay ax r.nd then murdered the wife hy tieauug her to death with a club. The tragedy occurred near Almira, Wash. The synod of the Greek Catholic Church of North America has decided to locate the cathedral in Cleveland and remove the headquarters of the church from San Francisco, where it is now located. The sum of $1,500,000 will be sp lit in the building of the cathedral. Gov. Savage of Nebraska gave Daisy Lawrence of Norfolk, aged 10 years, a Christmas present in the shape of a pardon for her father, who is serving a three years’ sentence in the State penitentiary for embezzlement. The pardon was granted in response to a pitiful letter from the little girl. In u desperate fight on the fifth floor of the Granite building in St. Louis, T. M. Martin, bridge engineer for the St. Louis, Santa Fe and Southwestern Railway, cut J. W. Barriger, Jr., to death xn itU a poeket knife. Martin took poison immediately after the murder and is not expected to survive.

A cathedral to he used ns headquarters in the downtown district of Chicago is to lie built by the Oriental Consistory of the Accepted Order of Scottish Rite Masons. , The building is to cost ibout $5011,000, nnd to he similar to the cathedrals of tlie rite in New York, St. Louis and other large cities. Two highwaymen heavily nrim il were at tucked by a posse of citizens as they rode into the town of Provence, in the Chickasaw Nation, nnd an exchange of shots followed. The horse wus shot from under one of the men, George Slocum, ami finally lie was shot nnd captured. The second man escaped. The Jones Brothers Publishing Company of Cincinnati has tiled a deed of assignment with liabilities of about SIOO,<<oo and assets of about $50, 00P. The members of the company say they had a large amount of the paper of Henry T. Knight of New York ami that his recent liquidation on used them to assign. The joint trial of five former members of the St. Louis house of delegates ended in a verdict of live years in the penitentiary for each man. The defendants, John A. Sheridan, Churlcs ,1. Denny, Charles Gutke, Edmund Borsch and T. Id. Albright, were convicted on (barges of britswy in connection with the passage of the suburban street car bill. .1. W. Barringer, Jr., office engineer of the St. Louis, Memphis and Southeastern Railway, was stabbed to death in his office in St. Louis by Thompson Morton, nn unemployed civil engineer, whom he had befriended for years. So far as known there was absolutely no motire for the crime. Barringer died without making a statement, nnd Morton declines to iiHerilie any cause for the murder. Barringer was Morton's warmest friend, nnd had been loyal to him. when his taciturnity drove others away.