Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1903 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Fire destroyed $250,000 worth of property at Marion, 111. l ire destroyed the largest and most substantial business block at Glendive, Mont., causing a loss of $70,000, partially insured. Warehouse No. 2 of the Itanney Davis Mercantile Company was destroyed at Arkansas City, Kan. The loss is $125,000, insurance SOO,OOO. The New Mexico Legislature passed a bill creating Quay County in honor of Senator Quay's tight for statehood. Tueeumcari will be the county seat. M. D. Polk, a well-known newspaper correspondent, was caught in a terrific blizzard on Thunder mountain, in Idaho, and is believed to have perished. Cleveland people are preparing a petition with 25,000 signatures asking King Edward to pardon Mrs. Florence Maybrick from life imprisonment In England. C. F. Ruggles of Chicago and \V. 11. Cook of Duluth will buy the part interest in u large tract of Minnesota timber land owned by their partner. William U'Rri. n of St. Paul, for SBOO,OOO. Chief of Police Martin and W. I. 1 lowland, deputy revenue collector for South Dnkojp, captured in Sioux Falls Bnstfon Giessiuan, who is wanted in Missouri for the illicit distilling of whisky. The bronze monument erected in St. James Pnrk, San Jose, Cal., to he memory of the late President McKinley was unveiled nod dedicated with simple exercises, in the presence of a large concourse of people. A German named Frymere, after beating Fred I'ulz of Eustis, Neb., into insensibility, shot and killed Mrs. Pul*, of whom he was jealous. Frymere carried the body of the woman three miles to a school house. The Hotel Deveuux In Toledo, Ohio, was almost destroyed by fire. The guests tnd help left the building in snfet.v, mnny taking their personal effects with them. The cause of the fire ia unknown. The losa will amount to SOO,OOO. A. N. Stinson and his 10-ycnr-old s<n were asphyxiated at their home in Shawnee, Ok., by the fumes from a stove. Mrs. Stinson discovered her husband and son dead and was barely able to reach the fresh air and save herself. Grant D. Keittler and Harry Kaemfor, both giving Chicago ns their home, were arrested in Omaha, Neb., on a charge of forgery. The two young men are said to have Itcen working n worthless check deal In Omaha for several days. Fire and panic nt night in Clifton Hotel at Cedar Rapids, lowa, resulted in death of at least nine persons and inj.iry to forty-two. Guests finding escape cut off Jumped from windows to frozen ground or sank back into tlnmea. Frsd A. Bopp, a banker of Hawkuye,

lowa, was killed in a wreck on the Chicago and Northwestern near Athol, S. D. T. H. Larabee of Chicago and Milla Murray of DeKnib, 111., were among the dozen or more who were injured. In a fire which destroyed the residence of William Adams of Hillside, I. T., three children were killed. Two were burned to death in the house and the mother rescued two others, one of whom afterward died as a result of injuries. C. W. Fulton was elected Senator from Oregon in the closing minutes of the legislative session after a deadlock which had lasted since the beginning of the term. Mr. Fulton, who is a Republican, will succeed Joseph Simon for the term beginning March 4 next. Charles Parr showed in Chicago how a hero can die. In a lire that destroyed the factory and paint shop of which he was foreman, lie saved the lives of fifteen working girls who became panic-stricken and lost their way. Later his charred body was taken from the ruins. A west-bound passenger train and an east-bound freight on the Big Four collided head-on a mile east of Boren, Ohio. Two mail clerks were reported burned to death. A passenger died shortly after being removed from the car. Eight or ten passengers are seriously injured. A wage schedule of 55 cents an hour for the season of 1903 was granted at Duluth by the Lake Carriers’ Association to the lumber handlers, an advance of 3 1-3 cents an hour over last season. The next conference will be held at Manistee to fix a Lake Michigan wage scale. Eurl Neil and M. W. Peterson, attendants at the Topeka, Kan., insane asylum, are locked up in the county jail on a charge of murdering Amos D. Maxwell, a patient from Frankfort. They bad a preliminary examination and were held upon the testimony of R. H. Farratt, the gardener. 3>t. Paul is the center of negotiations a $70,000,000 railway project, yflie plan being to construct a double trgck electric freight aud passenger line from Duluth to the Gulf of Mexico. John IV. Gates, it is said, will be at the head of the financiers identified with the new enterprise. The strike at the Mountain Copper Company’s mines and smelters at Keswick, Cal., is on again. An eight-liour strike was recently settled. A. Gar mop, a man opposed to unions, was shot and killed by George Gallinger, a freight agent and member of a railroad union, during a quarrel. The mammoth factory of the J. I. Case plow works was partly destroyed by fire at Racine, \Vis. The grinding, polishing, erecting and paint rooms r.nd a large stock of plow goods are in ruins, together with all the machinery. A large three-story brick building is also in ruins. The loss will exceed SIOO,OOO. Fire about midnight destroyed the house of August Schultz of Bruinerd, Minn., aud two of his children were suffocated. One was about 8 months and the other about 2 years old. The parents left the children in the care of an older daughter and went to a masquerade given by the city tire department. The man serving a six months’ term at the St. Louis city workhouse, who lived there for some time as ‘‘Lieut. Col. F. Seymour Barrington, a member of the British nobility,” and married a lady of Kansas City, who believed his stories of wealth and title, has been positively identified as George Barton, a noted English criminal. William Rack, colored, shot and killed Maggie McGinnis, colored, in St. Louis, and is under arrest oil the charge of murder. It is said that the woman left a window open iu the room in which Rack was sleeping and that this so angered him that he pursued her, placed the muzzle t>f a revolver against her breast and fired. Out of 139 students in English literature, many of whom are considered among the foremost scholars in Northwestern University at Evanston, 111., sixty, or over 40 per cent of the total enrollment, failed to make a passing grade. Iu addition to the sixty there is said to be a score more who barely es caped the fate of the unfortunates. The St. Louis and San Francisco fast west-bound passenger train, "Meteor,” was wrecked a quarter of a mile west of the Gasconade river crossing at Arlington, Mo. William Gifford, 50 years old, the Wells-Fargo express messenger, of St. Louis, was killed, and Engineer Decker of Newburg received broken ribs and internal injuries that may prove futaL The Kansas House has recommended for passing a stringent law against lynching. It provides that a sheriff permitting a prisoner to be taken from him immediately forfeits his office. Any person participating in a lynching may be punished by death or imprisonment for life and any member of a mob at n lynching, whether lie participates in the deed or not, may be imprisoned in the penitentiary for twenty-five years. Three trainmen were killed and one fatally injured lu a wreck oil the Illinois Central at Galenn, 111. The Minneapolis limited and a freight engine collided and both engines were demolished. The freight train was standing on n side track waiting for the passenger to pass and believing it would be possible to venture out on the main track for water and tetnru before the passenger arrived, the engineer of the freight took the risk. Alexander Young of La l’orte, Ind., an nstronomer, lias nmiounecd that from oliservntions made by him he is confident Hint the sun is Inhabited; thnt with his instruments he bus seen oil the sun's surface mountain sides with great ami preeipitous rocks, which glow with prismatic colors, mingled with the greenness of a perennial vegetation, and with a floral radiance more beautiful titan that on earth. Beyond these mountains ho says ho saw valleys and plains Where people live.