Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1903 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

At Somerset, Ohio, robbers forced an entrance into the city bank, blew the safe, and got away with SO,OOO. Burt Desbazo, alias Bert Sweet, wanted in several States for forgery, commit ted suicide by poisoning in the jail at Butte. Mont, Katherine McMahon, aged 70 years, and her daughter Elizabeth were killed by a Big Four train at a crossing nt Shelby, Ohio. The members of the Plasterers' I’nion of St. Louis have made a demand for a wage scale of $0 a tiny’. Tile present Scale is s."> a day. The State Bank of Verdigris, Neb., Is in the hands of a bank examiner. Its last report showed loans of SI7,(MA) and deposits of SIO,OOO. The chapel of Ols>r)ii> College, Oberlin, Ohio, wn* destroyed by fire, together with its contents, including a SIO,OOO pipe organ. Tlie loss is $50,000. Jacob Kaplan, a policeman, and Nathan Lavin, a saloonkeeper, were r.-rest-ed at St. Louis, charged with aiding nnd abetting in naturalization frauds. Senator Teller has been re-elected by Colorado legislators in joint session, after securing a quorum by bringing in an absentee front a sick bed iu an mnbnlance. A thief entered the rooms of 12, B. Henry at Omaha, Neb., and curried nwny $1,200 in gold. Henry is a street ear conductor and the money represented bis savings for six years. Bert de Shore, alias Sweet, held on two charges of forgery, committed suicide in the county Jail at Rutte. Mont, lie lint! taken heavy doses of strychnine, morphine nnd cocaine. I lilted States revenue officers have Seized practically all the butler stored nt the various city Institutions in fit. Ixnils. Tha butter is of an Inferior grade known a* “process" or "renovated butter."

None of the tubs In which it was delivered originally bore the required revenue label, which, it is believed, had been re moved for purposes of sit Institution. Jerry Kahler, n saloon-keeper of St. Louis, aonvicted of being an accessory after the fact to the robbery of a registered Jnail pouch, was sentenced to five in the penitentiary. J. 11. Bierbaum and wife Louise were asphyxiated with natural gas at Dayton, Ohio. The gas had gone out and then, coming on again while the husband and wife were sleeping, strangled them. Albert Jordan, n wealthy farmer, has been placed in jail at Crystal Plains, Kan., charged with thb murder of his 4-year-old adopted child. While in a rage Jordan beat the child and later it died. The jury in the case of Dr. Louis Zorn, a Kansas City dentist, charged with the murder of Albert Sechrist, reported that it was unable to agree. Zorn was released oil bail pending another trial. Reports from Popular, Mont., state that the range in the northern part of the State is in very bad condition, and that cattle are dying for lack of grass. The snow Inis crusted and the cattle are unnble to do any picking. George H. Price, a carriage nink'T. formerly of St. Louis, Mo., shot and killed his wife in Enid, Ok., and then shot and Rilled himself. The couple were not living together and Price believed his wife was about, to sue him for divorce. William McKinley’s birthday anniversary was celebrated at Canton, Ohio, with a banquet, nt which President Roosevelt was chief guest and speaker. The latter and his party first visited Mrs. McKinley and Westlnwn Cemetery. Frederick Walker, aged 20 years, shot and killed his father, Smith Walker a farmer and politician, while the father was at dinner at Ids home, near Jefferson, Ok. Young Walker became infuriated because his father chastised him. Tiie banking house of Boughton Ford A Co., at Burton. Ohio, assigned to C. E. Williams for tiie benefit o£ its creditors. It is understood the assets are close to $500,000 with liabilities at $300,(XX). The assets consist largely of farm mortgages.

Three saloons were held up just before midnight, all within three or four blocks of the statehouse in Denver, Colo. Nearly SI,OOO was secured from the proprietors and their customers. The robbers were young men, but there is no clew to their identity. Two Great Northern freights were in collision at Des Lacs, N. I>. Five men were injured, three seriously. The engine set tire to a large elevator and it was burned; also seven freight cars. A snowstorm prevented the engineer seeing the train ahead. Edward Cruse, the convict who escaped from the Ohio penitentiary four days before, was recaptured while asleep in a house in Columbus, Ohio. He had eluded detection by wearing a woman’s dress, and claimed he would not have been taken but for the treachery of a friend. Anthracite ccr.l has been discovered in Montana. The vein is four feet wide, and while not thoroughly developed as to its extent, mining experts state that the indications are encouraging. The strike was made by Davis and Cameron in their prospect on Bear Creek, Madison County. A prominent young student of Oberlin College paid at the rate of $37.50 apiece for two kisses, which he stole from a fair co ed. The young woman reported -the affair to the dean of the woman’s department, who effected the recall of a $75 scholarship which the young man previously enjoyed. The Woman’s Christian Temperaace I’tiioti of Tacoma, Wash., has inaugurated a crusade against the social evil along oil new ideas. Instead of persecuting the unfortunate young women and driving them out of the city prominent members of the union will take them into th dr own homes on promise of reform.

Emil Turk, arrested the other day, confessed to the St. Louis police department that he and two other men. whose mimes he disclosed, were implicated in the rolibery and murder. < 'hristnins evening, of John Moog. a cigar dealer. According to the police, Turk says he acted as lookout while two others entered the store and killed Mong. -Robbery was the motive, and Turk's share was sls. After braining his housekeeper. Mrs. Stella Wright, with a hatchet in the kitchen of his home in Chicago. William F. Lewis sought in vain for another victim of his murderous rage. Failing to find the man he sought. Lewis returned to the South Side and was about to enter the home of n sister when be was captured by detectives. A struggle followed, during which he cut his own throat after admitting the murder of the woman. He probably will die. In Cleveland, Ohio, the Circuit Court handed down n decision declaring the salary law to be illegal. The decision will result in all county officials being placed under the fee system, and will cause a bad muddle in the county offices, as they have been operated on a salary basis for the last ten years. The decision affects the counties of Cuyahoga, Summit, Loraiif and Medina, and follows n similar decision of the Supreme Court last Muy affecting Pickaway County. The house twelve mil;-, from I’nion, Mo., where the other day occurred the light between men suspected of being the robbers of the Batik of I’nion and officers in which lletectlve Schnniacher, of fit. Louis, was killed, has been searched, together with tlie premises, and a sack containing SM(Mt was found in tlie cistern. As a result of the tight. Frank Rudolph, aged 60; his wife, agtsl 45; their daughter Esther, aged 13, nnd George Hannes, a relative, who were occupants of the home, were arrested. Rudolph i« the stepfather of William Anderson, who escaped from the houiie after the fight nnd is suspected of complicity in the robbery. At Steelville 81., robbers blew open the safe of the bank, stole S3,(MM» and escaped in n carriage which they obtained by breaking open a barn near ’he bank. Nitroglycerin was used to open die vault nnd four explosions were necessary before the robbers could gain entrance. One man did the work inside the building, while another stoisl guard on the sidewalk ofilside. Paul Zimmer, an engineer iu Elster's mills, was awakened by the report of the first explosion. Mr. Zimmer, who Uvea next door, glanced out of his front window toward the bank and saw a man standing on the sidewalk. He went through tbe alley in

the rear of Ma house to the mill and Informed the mill employes. Zimmer and the men then armed themselves and started back toward the bank. Three other explosions were heard in the bank building in quick succession. The last explosion was followed by a crashing of glass, and sheets of flame poured from the bank windows. The mill employes, headed by Zimmer, hurried to the bank, but before they reached there the robbers had looted the safe and fled.