Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1903 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The Universities of Minnesota mul Wisconsin will not meet in debate this year. The freight problem has reached its crisis and four Minneapolis Hour mills have been forced to shut down. The woman found dead in a Kansas City rooming house has been identified as Mrs. Lilly Shelton of Chicago. A 1 Wade, convicted of the murder of Miss Kate Sullivan and denied clemency, was sentenced at Toledo, Ohio, to death In the electric chair. The Shedd block and a row of brick buildings extending from Lincoln to Burlington avenue at Hastings, Neb., were burned. Lora $125,000. The Masonic Temple at Cheyenne, Wyo,. was destroyed by fire. Loss, $50,000; insurance, $.‘55,000. George Knight, fireman, was fatally injured. % The collection of jewels valued at about $20,000 formerly owned by Kate Castleton, the netress, are to be sold by her mother, Mrs. Eliza Freeman, at Oakland, Cul. Mrs. Philip E. Burrough, whose husband whs for many years tiie British consul at Kansas City, Mo., was thrown from her carriago in that city and died •oon after. George Cole, who held up the Burlington train near Ilutte, Mont., about three weeks ago. pleaded guilty nnd was sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment by Judge McClernand. The extremely cold weather of tho last few weeks has ruined the peach crop of Missouri. While the crop of this fruit has been practically destroyed, no other fruit has suffered material injury. W. E. Marlin, a photographer at Colorado Springs, his 4-year-old son were killed by an explosion which occurred while Martin was mixing saltpeter and sulphur to form Unslilight powder. The police have arrested Garfield Snyder, a Denver, Colo., young man, on suspicion of having operated as the “lone highwayman” Who lias held up and robbed a number of saloons in that city recently. The supposed body of Mrs. llnunah O. Knapp, third wife of Alfred Knapp, the Hamilton, Ohio, strangler, was found In the Ohio ttlver at New Albany, Ind. Tho jewelry and clothing fit Knapp’s description. W. A. Scott, general manager of the Chicago, Minneapolis, Kt. Paul and Omaha Railroad, died in St. Paul. ll* had

been ill for several months and under went a surgicaT operation in the hope of securing relief. r The Montana House of Representative* in committee of the whole has passed the bill licensing gambling and making it n local option measure in small communities. For eight years gambling has been a felony in Montana. The dead body of Charles W. Clayton, who apparently had been nsphyxiated by naturul gas, was found in his room at Dayton, Ohio. Clayton was 22 years old, and came from Chicago.: He had secured employment ns a stenographer. A car on the Cleveland and South western Electric Railway went over au embankment twenty feet high at Henrietta, Ohio. There were twenty passengers nboard, some of whom were severely hurt, but the greater number escaped without serious injury. For the first time in the history of labor organizations in the United States an injunction was granted at St. Louis to restrain ordering of an original strike. The writ was issued on application of the Wabash Road, whose trainmen nnd firemen voted to strike. John W. Smith, engineer on the Panhandle express No. 5, was found dead at tiie throttle by hist fireman near Columbus, Ohio. His head had struck a mail crane or other obstruction and death was instantaneous. The train was running fifty-five miles an hour. The press mill of the Lnflin & Rand Powder Company's works at Turck, eight miles south of Kansas City, exploded, killing three men and injuring fifteen others, three of them fatally. The explosion is the fourth since the establishment of the works in 1889. Twelve men were injured, two of them probably fatally, by the collapsing of a scaffold at the new South Division High School building, at Thirty-ninth street and Prairie avenue, Chicago. The twelve men were thrown forty feet to the ground and fell among bricks and lumber. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway wage conference in Topeka agreed to an increase in salaries of 15 per cent for through freight, mixed train, local freight and work train conductors and brakemen, ami 12 per cent for passenger conductors, brakemen and baggagemen. In the lower levels of the l’enn mine at Butte, Mont., suddenly and without warning, a large force of men, under the direction of F. Augustus Heinze, ns is claimed, with threats and reckless use of powder, fought and drove about thirty of tiie Boston and Montana Company's miners from work. Chris T. Benson, a prisoner at the county jail in Olympia, Wash., killed Jailer David Morrell and escaped. Benson left open the inner and outer doors of the jail, but Mrs. Jesse Mills, wife of the sheriff, arrived with a revolver in time to prevent seven prisoners from gaining their liberty. Missouri Pacific passenger train No. 9, the fast express from St. Louis to Kansas City, crashed into a south-bound Missouri, Kansas and Texas freight train at the crossing of the tracks in the suburbs of Sedalia, Mo. The engine was partly demolished nnd four freight cars were knocked off the track. A run started on the Germ an-Am erie-aij Bank of Muscatine, lowa. The direct cause was the circulation of a false report to the effect that the stockholders had lost heavily on the Chicago Board of Trade. President Gelsler announced that every depositor would he paid in full. Other Muscatine banks came to the rescue. Joel Graham, a Caledonia, N. Y., fireman, anil John Hein, a Cleveland sailor, were arrested at Toletfo, Ohio, suspected of being two of the ten robbers who tortured and robbed the eight occupants of tiie home of Christian Joehlin. They attempted to bribe the arresting officer and told conflicting stories as to their whereabouts. Bishop J. M. Hamilton of the Methodist Church, in an address in San Francisco, practically declared himself in favor of marriage as means of removing race lines. The speech has caused much comment nmong Methodists. He said he had often married whites to blacks and Chinese and had no prejudice against siu-li marriages. Gov. George K. Nash was made defendant in n petition filed in the Probate Court at Columbus, Ohio by heirs of the late David W. Brooks. The Governor was named as executor of the will, nnd it is charged that lie has failed to give an accounting of the trust fund of SIO,OOO. The Governor says he is willing the matter should be brought to an issue. Annie B. Wood anil other heirs of Silas Armstrong, an Indian, have been given title to Missouri bottom land valued at $ 1.000,000, now occupied by Armour and Fowler, packers, and others at Kansas City. Attorneys for the defense have filed notices of appeal. If the verdict of the lower court is sustained the Armour Packing Company will be the heaviest laser. Train wreckers, in an attempt to ditch nnd rob No. 12, one of the fast express trains on the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern, wrecked fast freight No. 98 and caused the death of Fireman Joseph Hughey, of Washington, Inil., nnd Harvey Friend, of Odin, 111., who was learning the stations on the road so as to work as a fireman. Brnkcnmn W. L. Lucas wus injured. The wreck took place near Lebanon, 111.