Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1903 — WESTERN [ARTICLE]

WESTERN

At the coal investigation at Topeka it developed tliHt the average Kansas miner earns only $350 a year. One thousand lives were lost as a result of a hurricane and tidal wave which swept over the South Sea Islands. Dr. T. J. Fisher, n prominent physician at Reagan, I. T., has been murder M. presumably by robbers. l)r. Fisher was 45 years old. Ex-Gov. Stanley of Kansas lias accepted the positiou ou the Dawes commission made vacant by the death of e.v Senator Dawes. The Montana House lias killed the woman suffrage hill b.v a vote of 41 to 24. This effectively disposes of the measure at this session. The bituminous miners at Indianapolis accepted the new scale increasing wages 52Vit per cent on an average. A strike Is nvorted and peace assured for s year. The Missouri Supreme Court at St. Louis has ordered tiie bondsmen of the fugitive boodler, Fluirles Kratz, to paj into the school fund $200,000, tiie amount of the bond. Steve Clark, white, and Will Gatlin, colored, were hanged nt I‘oplsr lUiiff, Mo., Clark for the murder of his betrothed in June, 1901, while Gatlin had Killed a negro. The building occupied by the Frank Unuewehr cigar box factory nt the southwest corner of 7th and Culvert streets. Cincinnati, was entirely destroyed by lire. Loss, $75,000. The E. J. Arnold Company, of St. Louis, co-operative bookmakers, suspended payment on stock certificates. Millions have been invested in the concern by followers of the race game. Former United States Senntor Arthur Brown refused to pay liis wife $l5O a month pending the settlement of u divorce suit and was sent to jail for contempt at Salt Lake City, Utah. Luke Wheeler, having experienced a change of heart and promised to tie a better lunu, lias been freed from nil punishmemt for his confessed connection with the Masonic Teutple tax conspiracy in Chicago. Earthquake shocks in southern IliiimD nnd northern Kentucky between 6 and 6:23 p. in. shook buildings at Alto Pas* uud St. Louis, Mo„ threw down chimneys at Marion, and upset telephone service at Cnrini. *■ Nathaniel Miller, * farmer, 68 ycijrs old, was arrested by federal officials uml tuken to Cleveland, charged with counterfeiting silver coins. A counterfeiting outfit was found in • small building on

bis farm north of Canton, Ohio. Miller denies knowledge of llie use.of the building. Solomon Spiegelstein, a rag peddler. 40 years old, was found dead in his rooms in Cleveland with his head and body crushed and mutilated in a horrible m.inner. Ignntz Zalin, Ids roommate, has been arrested on suspicion. Fire which started at Lebanon, hid . shortly, after midnight Friday destroyed the Neal and Cason buildings, in which there were four business firms. The loss la $125,000, the heaviest in Lebanon's history. The insurance is one-half the loss. Waller Tripp. 24 years of age, attempted to kill his former sweetheart, Nellie Tanner, aged 22, and then ©oingtit-' ted suicide. Miss Tanner, who 'ived with her married sister at Scanlon, Minn., was seriously wounded, but will recover, Mike Rumpel, an old resident, committed suicide at Rush City, Minn., by nearly blowing his bead off with a shotgun. lie bad been accused of attunpting to poison his son George by putting a quantity of carbolic acid in some medicine. John Robertson was found guifii at lvirksville. Mo., of murder in the first degree. This is tiie first conviction by a Jury in Ailnir County on this charge. The crime for which Riffierisiurw as eoh - iet.-il was the killing of his father in law, George ConUle. Mrs. Frank E. Shaw of Butte, Mo it., a sister of Mrs. William A. Clark, Jr., died of heart failure. It is said her illness was caused by the Work and worry of nursing her sister, who was the mother of the baby for whose birth Senator Clark gave $1,000,000. The Peru Marquette Railway Company has placed an order with the American Shipbuilding Company for two big ear ferry steamers to cost about $750,000. The boats will he duplicates of the present Pere Marquette vessels, and will carry cars exclusively between Ludington and Milwaukee. As the result of a street fight among a crowd of boys in St. Louis Thomas J. Boyd. I.'! years old. shot Frabk I'.iliski, 11 years old. Biiiski was shot through the brain and probably will die. Boyd is under arrest. He said he shot to scare and had no idea of hurting anyone, lie made no effort to escape. . Post office Inspectors Moore of Toledo and Burr of Fort Wayne, Iml., cleared the mystery surrounding the theft of letters in Toledo during the last few’ weeks by arresting and securing a confession from John J. Everett of that city. Everett was a hanger-on nt the Union depot, where he committed the theft. Benjamin Knott, aged 70 years, a w oil-to-do farmer, was found dead in his rooms at Bird City, Kan., his head crushed with some blunt instrument and lying in a pool of blood. The dead man came from York, Neb., where lie lias a brother. He had just sold some lanl. and it is believed lie was murdered by robbers. Jefferson City, Mo., lias reformed. The gamblers who have hitherto held forth unmolested have closed their five places of business alid have left the town. The saloonkeepers, with one exception, have promised to obey the law in the manner of conducting their establishments. A legislative resolution to move tiie cupital caused the reform. Nine gray wolves attacked Charles Mini on his ranch in Hamilton County, Kan., and after a terrible battle, in which Elm's dog was killed. Elm gained shelter in liis lonely sod cabin. " All night these wolves bowled about Elm's cabin. In tiie morning passersby discovered Elm's imprisonment, raised a posse, drove the wolves away nod liberated him. The railroads west of the Mississippi River have granted in full the demands ol' the trainmen for an increase of 55 per cent in wages in tiie freight service and 12 per cent in the passenger service. The decision was made by General Manager Allen of the Missouri. Kansas and Texas, but by a prearranged agreement all the other railroads will follow this move. F. 11. Croft and his wife were seriously injured and their 5-year-old daughter was killed in a peculiar accident at Buffalo, lowa. As a west-bound Rock Island freight, drawn hy two locomotives, was passing the station the second engine and several ears jumped the track and a loaded ear plunged through the station in which Croft and liis wife and child were standing. W. J. Bryan’s paper devotes one page to a denial of reports that Mr. Bryan is a millionaire. It states ihat Mr. Bryan had $15,000 or s4,oo#\>efore lie was nominated for President the first time. His new house was to cost $lO,- * *ttO, hut the amount paid far exceeded the contract price. In addition to his house nnd thirty-five acres of land where it stands, he lias property, real and personal, valued nt from $15,000 to S2OJ)i)O, of which $2,000 or $3,000 came to him b.v inheritance. In 1807 lie received $17,000 ns his royalty from his book. “The First Battle.” An equal amount was given to bimetallist committees.