Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1903 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The Custom Cutters' Association in convention at St. Paul chose Columbus, Ohio, for the next convention. Andrew Carnegie hns offered to give Brainard. Minn., $12,000 for a library site if the city will maintain and furnish the site. The Bank of Louisville, Neb., was broken into and robbed of $4,200. The robbers drilled into the safe from the rear, avoiding the burglar alarm. Dr. George F. Shoey, a prominent physician, was burned to death in his room at his boarding house nt Medora, Ind. Other occupants of the house had a narrow escape. Employes of the Milwaukee Electric Railway and Lighting Company were given an advance of 1 cent an hour in wages, the third voluntary increase in the last two years. Blizzard and heavy niow storms have been raging throughout northern Indiana, Nebraska, Michigan mid Kansas. W. 1). Beckett, Omaha lawyer, was frozen to death near the cijy limits. The business section of Hamlin, Kan., was destroyed by fire of incendiary origin. The postoffice, Fnger Brothers' drug store and L. I>. Burdick's hotel burned, the loss being $50,000. . Camels, toe offspring of a herd imported by the government forty years ago for transport services and Inter turned loose, nnd of which all trace was lost, are running wild in the Arizona desert. The friends of Dr. Edward Graves of Springfield, Ohio, recently of Northampton, Mass., have learned that he has married Miss Fannie Smith, 17 yearn eld, es Cleveland. The bride is the daughter of James D. Smith, president of the

hiDM D. Smith Foundry Company of Cleveland. - Janies Maher, aged 80 years, was frozen while on a street ear at Toledo. The aged man was riding about in the cars all morning, transferring frequently and not knowing just where he wanted to go. At Fargo, N. D., ffre destroyed the Edwards building, owned by Alexander Stern & Co., and occupied by numerous business firms. The total loss is estimated nt $200,000, with insurance of $135,000. Corn worth 35 cents per bushel is feeding the Hames to keep the people of Adams County. Nebraska, from freezing. AIL available coal and wood has been used mid there is nothing but corn left to burn. Gov. Nash issued a proclamation yesterday calling upon the people of Ohio to observe Jan. 2!) with exercises in all schools, colleges and universities commemorative of the sixtieth anniversary of McKinley’s birth. Charles A. Ward, president the American Lumber Company, financed largely by < 'hicago men, has signed a contract to build a mill with a capacity of 200,000 feet a day on a 110-acre site given by the City of Albuquerque, N. M.

Thomas A. Steele, a Well-known Columbus, Ohio, attorney, forfeited his bond in the United States Court and is a fugitive from justice. Steele had liecn convicted of conspiracy- to use the mails for blackmail and was out on $3,000 bond. Judge Hazen in the District Court at Topeka, Kan., decided that the Bible could be read in the public schools of Kansas, and also that Sunday theaters could be held in Topeka without molestation, Both cases were vigorously contested. Fire destroyed the lodging house nt 2314 Pine street, St. Louis. Mrs. Helen Brown, 40 years old, leaped to instant death, and her daughter. Eugenia, aged 15, jumped and received fatal injuries, as did Jennie May Thompson. All are colored. Fire, indirectly due to the cold weather, destroyed a portion of the plant of the Federal Manufacturing Company, South Chicago, 111. The main building and a part of the shipping building to the east were destroyed. The loss is estimated at $150,000. Miss Bettie Bailey, a young woman of St. Joseph, Mo., ran away from home to join the "King Dodo" company now playing in St. Bonis. She is a soprano singer and received an offer some time ago to join the company, but her ambition was opposed by her parents. Dr. J. T. McFarland, pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, the largest church in Topeka, Kan., was fined $10<) by the police judge for contempt of court. Dr. McFarland severely rebuked the judge in open court for a fine imposed on Mrs. Nation. The jury in the Whipple divorce suit at Denver returned a verdict declaring the defendant. Captain Herbert S. Whipple, not guilty of non-support and cruelty as charged by his wife and finding the latter guilty of cruelty as alleged in the cross-bill tiled by the defendant. At a meeting of representatives of retail furniture houses of the East and middle West at Grand Rapids, Mich., the National Association of Retail Furniture Dealers was organized. C. A. Brockway of, New York is president and Geo. Clingmnn of Chicago vice-president. William J. Bailey was inaugurated Governor of Kansas on Monday. Legislative caucuses showed that the element supporting Charles Curtis and J. D. Bowersnck will control the Senate, while the faction back of Chester I. Long and former Governor Stanley will have the House. Deep snowdrifts on various Western railways have caused great delay to passengers ami mails ind hard work lor relief crews. One train was caught in an ice Hoe in Detroit River mid was not liberated for twenty hours. Delays to trains reaching Chicago varied from one hour to twelle hours. Tin* Arapahoe Indians are starving. Not a day passes but a band is in Lander, Wyo., begging. The Indians raised no crops this season and rations are not issued to them by the government, as their treaty expired last yens; It 'hey get desperate they may kill stock of settlers mid serious trouble may follow.

Joseph Edwards of St. Louis, Mo., whose wife caused his blindness by throwing ncid into his eyes and who afterward stabbed her to death in bed. was acquitted by a jury in the criminal court. Edwards and his wife quarreled over the death of their child, he charging that negligence on her part resulted in the child’s death. News comes from the southeastern part of Morton Comity, South Dakota, of the loss by prairie lire of s,tHs» sheep nnd 3lh) head of cattle lielonging to ranchers. The fire broke out during the recent high wind nnd spread with great rapidity. Seventeen ranchmen suffered severely, some losing their houses in the flames. Twin daughters of Ole Thorson:, a farmer, twelve miles west of Sisseton, S. D., were frozen to death in the recent blizzard. They set out from Sisseton for home with their father bite in the evening. They lost their way among the coteaus and wandered all night, perishing before dawn. The father was not badly frozen. Miss Perry Wilson, nged 35 years, committeil suicide by taking carbolic ;,<-id at Long Beach, Cal. Miss Wilson for years was secretary nnd treasurer of the St. Paul (Minn.) Street Railway Company. Her health gave way and a year ago the went to Ixmg Bench to recuperate. Health did not come to her and she became despondent. A resolution to change the name of the Protestant Episcopal Church to the American Catholic Church, introduced in pursuance of n suggestion from the annual convention at San Francisco and passed during one session of the convocation of Oklahoma territory, was reconsidered nt the concluding session nnd tabled until the next annual meeting. Supposing that his son Charles, 1(5. find wandered out on the ice and had been caught in the blizzard, Andrew D. Le.iz.el started out from Sandusky. Ohio, to find him. The wind was blowing a gale and the thermometer registered nearly z< ro. but Mr. Lenze) pushed out across the ice fully a mile nnd n half. He reached shore with frozen hands, ears and feet to find his gon nt home safe nnd sound, having taken supper with some friends one block away. After serving one day In the Nebraska State penitentiary, Joseph A. Harris, a

former bank president of Broken Bow, walked out a free man. He became a convict at 5 o’clock Thursday afternoon, and at the same time the next day was released. Harris was favored with Gov. Savage’s last act Of clemency. He was convicted of making a false statement to the State banking board and sentenced to a year in prison, but an appeal war made and sentence suspended..