Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1903 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The jury nt Aledo found Toon Dunlap not guilty of the murder of Allie Dool, Col. Myron T. Herrick of Cleveland ha* formally decided to enter the field a* a candidate for Governor of Ohio. Four men have been arrested at Macon, M<>., KUMpi-cted of complicity in the bank robbery at Union, Mj>., when $15,000 was stolen. Thirty railroad employe* wyre injured, four perhaps fatally, in n collision between a train nnd a switch engine nt Fort Smith, Ark. Col. Phil Shenon, n pioneer nnd one of the best known mining men of Montana, was thrown from his wagon at Bnlnioti, Idaho, and killed. Edward Shaunessy nnd Martin Cummings were drowned near O'Brien, Wash., while trying to rescue stock from a raging stream. With death from enneer threatening him, E. J. Baldwin, better known ns "Lucky ■Bn hl win," is lying in n lodging bouse ip Han Francisco. The hoisting plant of the Lexington

mine, between Butte’ and Walkerville, Mont., was destroyed by fire. Loss about $50,000, with no insurance. The Rev. Dr. J. B. McMichael, pastor of tlie United Presbyterian Church at Sugar (’reek, Ohio, died suddenly while conducting a prayer meeting. Jackson I. Case, son of Jerome I Case, wealthy thrashing machine manufacturer, died suddenly in Racine, Wis., from a complication of diseases. I Engineer Daniel Williams was killed and Fireman Frank Younger seriously injured in a wreck on the South Park Railroad near Breckinridge, Colo. Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio, will gain $1,000,000 by the completion of the Methodist twentieth century- thank offering of $20,000,600. ' The will of W. 11. Smith, a banker of Montevallo, Mo., who died recently, leiiw-s bis entire estate of $70,000 to the Missouri Masonic Home after the death of bis widow.' The engine turners and coal beaveri employed by the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad at Lima, Ohio, struck for an increase in wages from $1.35 to $1.55 a day. Rev. Luther Kuhns, pastor of Grace Lutheran Church at Omaha, bns resigned to accept the general secretaryship of the Luther League of America, with headquarters in New Y'ork City. A fire in a lodging house on Thirteenth and Market streets, Denver, Colo., resulted in the death of one man and the injury of a dozen or more, one fatally and several of them seriously. The British ship Conjblebank, which has arrived at Port Townsend, Wash., from Panama, reports the death of six members of the crew of yellow fever during the voyage. The vessel is in quarantine. Olin Castle, husband of the woman whom Miss Jessie Morrison was convicted of murdering, has departed from Eldorado, Kati., for California, accompanied by his mother and sister, to find a new bom*’. One hundred and ten Fort Sheridan. 111., soldiers struck against poor food and were arrested; one protester locked in guardhouse, others disobeyed order not to leave quarters and inarched to Highwood restaurants. White River overflowed its banks near O'Brien station. Wash., the water driving many people from their beds. A relief train took the residents to places of safety. No lives are reported lost, but much property has been ruined. John S. Eberle of the National Military Home at Dayton. Ohio, committed suicide by taking twelve morphine tablets. The only cause for the act was that Eberle was tormented by his comrades, and their jokes drove him to take his life. A irud ami rock slide on the Monte Cristo Railroad, between tunnels 1 and 2. mar Everett, Wash., blocked the track for 200 feet. The Everett train was caught in the slide, and passengers were <•( i> pelled to pass the night and most of the next day oi the train. In an interview W. S. Hopewell, chairman of the territorial committee of the Democratic party in New Mexico, announces himself in favor of admitting Arizona and New Mexico as one State, with three representatives in Congress, the capital to be fixed for ten years at Santa Fe. Thomas Dunn, colored, was hanged in St. Louis for the murder of Peter Jackson. a negro, with whom he had quarreled over $4. The execution was witnessed by a crowd of nearly 46') persons, among them being several women and children who had crowded their way into the jail yard. .James E. Bailey, a coachman of George M. Kilborne, died under mysterious circumstances at Colorado Springs, and indications are tlfat he was poisoned •by drinking less than an hour before from a small vial of whisky. The bottle had been given him as a present, but by whom is not known. The body of James H. Bobbin, the missing president of the Bank of Silverton, Colo., which was closed the other day on account of the president's disappearance. was found three miles from town. He had shot Iwmself. He was about 45 years old. and leaves a wife and three children in Denver. J. (’. Lowe, a teacher in the Kansas Industrial School for Boys at Topeka, was found guilty of killing liis wife. Murder in the second degree was the verdict returned by the jury. Mrs. Lowe was matron of the industrial school when she was killed by her husband six months ago as a result of jealousy. The South Omaha, Neb., Live Stock Exchange has been organized with II membership of 2UO commission merchants and dealers in live stock. The purpose is to push the South Omaha market to the front and drive out irresponsible parties who have been traveling over the West pretending to represent the commission tjrms. Judge Newnhain, of the Superior Court, handed down nn important decision at Grand Rapids. Mich., affecting city taxation of railroad lauds. It is the case of the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad against the city. The cits wins out in its contention that lamia In retofore regarded as railroad lands, but used for other purposes, can lie assessed.