Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1903 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Mlsa Katherine Kidder, the actress, has recovered from a slight attack of pneumonia at Little Hock, Ark. Earl Shaw and Lee Shollenhergcr were killed at the Warren mine, near Joplin, Mo., by a bowlder weighing a ton. A. E. Mead, deputy treasurer of Walsh County, N. D., was arrested for embezzling l>etween $2,000 and $.‘1,000. Coffee plnntera who have just arrived nt San Francisco from Guatemala slate that the war preparations In the country are still going on. J. B. Floyd, n prominent citizen of Canadian County, Oklahoma, was shot and killed by his stepson, K. C. Putnam, during n family quarrel. The Montana House passed a bill requiring that newspapers shall once a month print a statement of ownership and that editorials shall be signed. The bill prohibiting the sale of cigarettes nnd cigarette paper to children under 18 years of age pnssed the Missouri Senate. The House had previously pnssed the bill. General Harrison Gray Otis was attacked in a theater box in Los Angeles, Cal., by a rival editor, about whoso approaching marriage he had printed an offensive article. Attorneys for Mrs. Lena Lillie, convicted of murder in the first degree nt David City, Neb., for the killing of her

I husband last October, have filed a motion for a new trial. ! The general officers of the Woman’s | Christian Temperance Union, to whom I was left the selection of the convention | city, have settled- upon Cincinnati. The 1 dates are Nov. 13 to 18. j At Brainerd, Minn., Judge McClenshan I granted a stay of forty days to Ole G. lOleson, tlie condemned murderer who I was to have been executed at Aitkin for the murder of his daughter. At Fuirhaven, Wash., fire oil the water front destroyed the Murchison saw mill and tlie Hill-Webori wharf, together with two Northern Pacific passenger coaches. The loss is $130,000; insurance one-half. The main portion of the large pavilion at Lako Harriet, Minneapolis, was burned, the fire originating from electric wires. The structure had been the scene of many famous concerts. Loss, $15,000. In St. Louis between 3,000 nnd 4,000 union men of the Allied Brickmakers’ Trades struck to enforce demands for a recognition of their union, for an eighthour day and a 5 per cent increase in wages* The epidemic of grip, which began in Rt. Louis three wepks ago, lias spread with alarming rapidity until to-day the number of cases there is estimated by conservative physicians at from 12,000 to 15,000. Because they had jeered at him, Walter Green, n negro, aged 15 years, fired into a crowd of boys at South St. Joseph, Mo., witli a shotgun, wounding four of them. Tlie gun was loaded with buckshot. By a sheriff's attachment to enforce the collection of an account by the Western Montana National Bank the wholesale nnd retail grocery establishment of Pulliam Brothers at Missoula, Mont., has been closed. Officials of the Union Pacific Railroad nnd the joint committee of conductors and brakenien reached an agreement at Omaha by which tlie salaries of 1,500 employes of the road are increased from 12 to 15 per cent. The Arkansas Senate passed a House bill requiring street car companies in cities of the first class to operate separate cars for white and colored people or to separate such passengers in cars operated for both. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of W. C. M unsell, formerly chief clerk of the tax department of the Colorado State auditor’s office, on the charge of having absconded with about $7,000 of the State’s money. Chaplain Henry C. Gavitt, U- S. A., <has been exonerated by court martial at Denver from tlie charge of not paying liia debts, which was brought against him by a Chicago firm. Geu. Funs ton approved the findings. William Ross was executed at Bottineau, N. I)., for tlie murder of Thomas Walsh on July 5, 1902. Ross expressed sorrow for his crime. He was asked who killed Napoleon Le May, and answered that it was Carl Hanson. Edward Slattery, a farmer, shot and instantly killed H. W. Shaw, a stockman, while the latter was on his way to O’Neill, Neb. Slattery surrendered and was released on bond. A family fetid was the cause of the tragedy. United States Marshal Dorsey took possession of $240,000 iu cash and the offices nnd furniture of the John J. Ryan &,Co. Turf Investment Company in St. Louis and will hold the entire amount for distribution among the creditors. The State House of Representatives lias passed the Senate bill prohibiting the use of slot machines in Kansas. Governor Bailey says he will sign the bill. Under tlie provisions of the law the operation of slot machines will be a felony. The Northern Pacific Railway suffered a SOO,OOO loss through the burning of its warehouse and several loaded cars at Helena, Mont. The fire originated from the explosion of a gasoline stove used to heat the storage room. The watchman was badly burned. An autopsy held on the body of Horace H. Hagan, a widely known politician and banker who died suddenly at Guthrie, Okla., supposedly from heart disease, indicates opium poisoning. It is stated that Mr. Hagan took an overdose of the drug to allay pain. Navigation has been opened at Chicago by the arrival of the steamer Edward Buckley with salt from Manistee. There is less ice in Lake Michigan than for many years, and it reenis likely the struits will open ns early as they did Inst year, which was on April 1. Elder Uriah Smith, pho stood next to Prophetess Ellen G, jlfhite, the seer of the Seventh Day AdvtUnsts, ns the most influential person in that denomination, and for half a century editor of its official organ, the Adventist Review, and head of tlie great denominational publishing house, dropped dead at Battle Creek, Michigan. The Kansas Supreme Court has declared invalid tlie nuisance clause of the prohibitory law, which practically destroys the injunction section of tlie statute, and makes it more difficult than ever to enforce the law ns nn entirety. The clause in Question made places where liquor is made or sold a common nuisance. The decision was in the ease of several Kansas City, Kan., ‘‘joint’’ keepers, who resisted an injunction suit commenced by tlie State. Three thousand people, most of whom were returning from church, witnessed n tire in the heart of tlie business section of La Crosse, Wis, in which three men nearly lost their lives and which entails damage upward of $50,000. For a time the entire business portion of La Crosse was threatened with destruction. The fire originated in the upper portion of the Rudolf Building, and the big plant of (he La Crosse Engraving Company, containing thousand of dollars’ worth of machinery, and the stock of Stavrum & Hulberg, clothiers, was totally destroyed. The Looftler Tailoring Company, adjoining, also sustained a loss of 50 per cent on stock. The building is a total loss.