Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1903 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Fire at Yerkes Observatory at Williams Bay, Wis., destroyed valuable coelostnt. Four persona were injured in a collision on the Northwestern road near Rochester, Minn. The Santa Fe hospital at Albuquerque. N. M„ was destroyed by fire, but all the patients were saved. John Cotte, a prominent ranchman near Kimball. Neb., is believed to have perished in the recent storm. Edwin Dunlop, for the last twenty years superintendent of the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis, has resigned. Fireman Edward Adams of Sedaiia, Mo., was killed near Marshall, Mo., by the derailing of u Missouri Pacific passenger train. Bobbers blew open the safe of the Surprise State Bank at Surprise, Neb., and secured $.'(,000 cash. The building was badly wrecked. An explosion of gasoline wrecked the Turf Exchange at Hot Springs, Ark., nnd injured thirty persons, u number of whom will die. Mary Hartwell. (Jntherwood, the novelist, died of cancer in Chicago after an illness of three months. The remains were interred at Hoopeston, 111. Jessie Benton Fremont, widow of General John C. Fremont, died in I.os Angeles, Cal., after a brief illness of pneumonia. She was 70 years of age. The hank of Union, Mo., was looted of $15,000 by burglars, the vault being blown open with nitroglycerin. There were two hurglurs and both escaped. Carl Theodore Francis Bitter has been appointed chief of sculpture of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, taking the place of Frederick W. Uuckstuhl, resigned. The people of Delawnre, Ohio, are

greatly- excited over an outbreak of smallpox. There are nineteen eases st present and three deaths have been reported. Maywood Hall landed a heavy upper cut on Addison llupp’s neck in a saloon fight at Graysviile, Ohio. Hupp died instantly. The young men belong to Wealthy families. A severe blizzard swept many Northwestern States, delaying railroad traffic and causing much hardship. James J. Hill narrowly escaped being snowbound on Dakota prairie. Mr. and Mrs. D. W. .Phelps, an aged couple, living alone, were burned to death in a fire which destroyed their house in Osnkis, Mjpn. They were too feeble to got out. George Plydell, aged 55 years, fell from exhaustion within five feet of his home iu Duluth, Minn., and froze to death. Plydell lived alone in n shack near the harbor front. Tcu men were killed in a freight w’reck, near Trinidad, Colo., on the Colorado and Southern Railroad. Two trains enqie into collision, head on, on a Curve just outside the ..city. Citizens of Pittsburg. Kan., took Montgomery Godley, a negro, from jail and lynched him because he killed policeman Milton Hinkle while the latter was pro tecting himself against a drunken crowd. Gas caused a tragedy that comes near wiping out the family of Josephine Mahoney, gathered at her home iu Chicago lor a reunion. Two are dead and two others suffering from fumes and shock

Chief Detective Sack Donohue of Ilot Springs, Ark., was shot and instantly killed by James Dougherty, whom tin detective had been called upon to arres' on account of rowdy conduct and intoxi cation. The Santa Fe overland train No. 5 crashed into a light engine sidetracked at Siam, a station between Dauby and Needles, Cal., killing Engineer Charles Hayward and badly injuring Fireman A. A rkills. Warren J. Baker, Toledo, Ohio, confessed history of cathedral pillaging during Mexican war; his father aud tent mate deehij-ed to have buried loot, part of which was unearthed recently at Mexico City. Former United States Senator Dwight M. Sabin of Minnesota died suddenly in Ids apartments at the Auditorium Annex in Chicago. Ex-Senator Sabin was a native of Illinois, being born at Manlius April 25. 1845. In St. Louis 250 cab and carriage drivers turned in their rigs because of the failure of their employers to grant a demand for higher wages. Eighty-five liverymen and undertakers are affected by the strike.

After spending Christmas pleasantly with her family. Mrs Ella Sweethind, of St. Louis, killed herself by shooting. She had expressed a fear of paralysis, and it is believed brooding over this prompted the deed. The boiler of a Rio Grande engine pulling a freight train exploded six miles east of Buena Vista, Cal., killing Engineer George Miller, fatally injuring Brakeman Potter and badly burning Fireman W. S. Newby. Miller and Mahan, partners iu a general store at West l’oint. Ark., had a difficulty over business affairs and shot each other. Mahan was killed instantly, and Miller died a few Flours later. No one witnessed the shooting. Detectives are searching for a fashionably dressed woman accused of passing forged money orders which were stolen from station No. IT at Chicago Oct. 13. The woman secured st’>9 and merchandise from East St. Louis dealers. The town of llubßiird, Neb., was the scene of a daring hold-up. Two masked men, heavily armed, entered a crowded saloon and robbed everybody in the place and looted the till and made their escape. The amount secured is not known. William 1,. Bussell of Lima, Ohio, and Charles E. Bussell of 'La Porte, Ind., have closed an oil deal involving $517,500. They bought the leases and welts of eight companies in Ohio. Tli-iv is an acreage of 0,500 with 277 wells. John Baseotn, former president of the University of Wisconsin, iu an address to teachers, says money obtained at the expense of tile people cannot be used for the good of th(> people, referring to the Rockefeller gifts to the Uiiivorsi;.* of Chicago. Louis Burton, of Louisville, Ivy., a discharged soldier on his way home from the Philippines, shot and killed Frank Walker in a saloon in Kansas City. Both men had been drinking, but eyewitnesses say that Burton killed Walker in selfdefense.

The State Bank of Weblier, Kan., was robbed of sl,s<X) after the safe had been blown open with dynamite. The robbers dug a hole through the stone vault large enough to admit a man and then blew open the steel chest which continued the money. During a fight in a saloon in Y oungstown, Ohio, Edward Kaden, who was tending bur, attempted to eject a party of men, when one of them. Patrick Mulvihill, assaulted him. Kaden drew a revolver and shot Mulvihill in the neck. The victim died. At Cordell, Oklahoma, J. \V. White, editor of the Cordell Beacon, fatally shot A. J. Johnson, a prominent town site man. The cause of the tragedy was an old quarrel, which was renewed when the parties met and attempted to discuss their differences. The first river tragedy of the skating season, resulting in the drowning of two young women in the Mississippi, occurred at the foot of Olive street, St. Louis. Miss Mary Galleano, l(i years old, and Miss Angie Cafferntu, 17 years old, were the victims. Adelhcrt Lemon, the 10-year-old son of Rev. 11. A. Lemon, State evangelist for the Christian Church, shot himself at Lincoln, Neb., and died. The hoy was conscious several hours after the shooting, and said in effect that the act was deliberate and premeditated. The State Bank of Webber. Kan., was dynamited and robbed of $1,500 in cash. The robbery was not discovered until lute the other day. The robbers dug n hole through the stone vault large enough to admit a man ayd blew open the steel chest which contained (lie money. Forest Gale, a 15-yeur-old boy attached to the Salvation Army, was burned fatally while playing Santa Claus to 500 poof children of Hamilton, Ohio. The accident occurred at the Salvation Army’s hall, where the annual Christmas entertainment for the poor wns in progress. Articles of incorporation of the Omaha and Council Bluffs Street Railway Coin-

pany, with a capital stock of $15,000,000, have been filed in Omaha with the County Clerk. The articles provide for suburban lines to Blair, Plattsmouth, Wahoo" and Lincoln, Neb., and Grisiyold, lowa. In the sheep-killing beds of Nelson Morris & Co. at the Union Stock Yards, in Chicago, two boys at work there quarreled, and one of them plunged a knife in the other’s breast, killing him, The victim was James Lurshut, 19 years old. His assailant, Peter Lenkz, is 17 years old. The bituminous coal miners of the country are preparing to ask for an increase of from 18'to 20 per cent in wages at the coming session of the national convention. W. D. Ryan, of Illinois, says his district will ask for an increase and the Indiana and Ohio leadcra say they will ask the same. The last increase the soft coal miners received was at Columbus three years ago. It was from 15 to 20 per cent. The miners have had a statistician at work for months on figures on which they will base a demand for an increase. A society to bring about the organization of all the farmers in the country has been incorporated in Indianapolis. Mutual benefit will be the object of the association and the promoters expect to make it as useful to planters ns trusts are to capitalists and labor unions to the propertyless workers. The incorporators are J. A. Everitt, E. A. Hlrselifield, Mark I‘. Turner, A. I>. McKinney, Hiram \Y". Miller and Sid Conger. All are land owners. The officers are: President, .1. A. Everitt, Indianapolis; vice-presi-dent. Seldon R. Williams. Fort YY’ortii, Texas; secretary, A. I). McKinney, Indianapolis; organizer, Sid Conger, Slielbyville, Ind.