Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1903 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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John Rooney was sentenced to death nt Fargo, N. I)., for the murder of Harold Sweet, n boy, during an attempted hold-up. At their country home between Woodlawn and Glendale, Ohio, while playing with a revolver, Ray Whitehead, aged 7, killed his sister Gertrude, aged 5 years. leo dealers of Toledo and other lake cities have agreed that on April 1 they will advance ice 30 per cent. The advance, they say is duo to the great demand for lake ice in the South. The Milwaukee and Northwestern roads are reported to have entered into an agreement for division of business in connection with their threatened speed war between the twin cities, Milwaukee Chicago. Tra Box, a banker nt Quincy, Oldo, lias assigned to George Hahn and his hank is

closed. The depositors will lose about -*slo,ooo. The assets are estimated at $5,000. A run on the bank is said to have caused the failure. It is rumored in Colorado Springs, where Eugene Field, Jr., and Frederick Comstock Field, sons of the Chicago poet, are visiting, that a comic operir written by their father and lost after his death will be produced in New York next fall. Gov. Bailey, the bachelor executive, is ready to admit that the women of Kansas are persistent. The Women’s Christian Temperance Union all'over the State is petitioning the Governor to hnye water instead of wine used iu christening the new battleship Ivansa's. Gov. Bailey will surrender. Twenty of the twenty-five pastors under jurisdiction of Rev. J. L. Leilich, superintendent of the Methodist Episcopal Utah missions, iiave asked his removal to some other field. Rev. Leilich preferred charges of polygamy against Senator Reed Smoot, but these are not mentioned. Union teamsters in Chicago have decided to hold aloof hereafter from the quarrels of other labor unions unless consulted before a strike is called. They say they have grown weary of bearing the burdens of every struggling organization and of “pulling others’ chestnuts out of the fire.” A new street railway company has been organized by 11. E. Buckled of Chicago, M. V. Beiger and J. A. Roper, Mishawaka, Ind., capitalists, and several Elkhart men of wealth. The line will be electric and run between Toledo and Chicago. It is said the road will skirt the St. Joseph river. A Des Moines-Albia passenger train on the Burlington road-tan into an open switch at Knoxville, lowa, and crashed into the rear of a freight train standing on a switch. The engine was badly demolished. Engineer Hiatt, a veteran of twenty-live years’ service on this line, was instantly killed. Ole Oleson was hanged at Aitkin, Minn., for murdering bis daughter, who planned to marry against his wishes. James Ruffin and Jay Green, colored, were hanged at Sioux City, Ark., for the murder of Don McGhee. At Moultrie, G.i J. 11. Bryant, colored, was hanged for killing 1». Buchanan. By an agreement reached at St. Paul Chicago Great Western freight conductors and trainmen are to receive an advance in wages of 15 i*er cent and passenger conductors and brakemeu an increase of 12 per cent. Yardmen in smaller yards will be paid on a basis of 1 per cent less than yardmen at St. Paul. By an explosion of gas in „one of the entries of the Athen Coal Company at Springfield, 111., six men lost their lives instantly and one is seriously injured. The entry bad been choked with gas for oune time, and workmen were engaged in drilling and blasting an entrance into one side of it in order to let in the air. The Missouri Supreme Court has found five large beef packing companies guilty of maintaining an unlawful combination to control prices of meat iu the State of Missouri and issued an order of ouster prohibiting them from doing business in the State and to pay a fine of $5,000 each and bear the costs of the proceedings. Mine, de la Motlie, an opera singer, was seriously injured at Guthrie, Okla., by a shot fired through the car window at which she was sitting on the Rock Island train from the West. The shot cut her arm and broke the glass, the small pieces cutting her face and arms in many places. Mme. de la Nlothe's home is in Chicago. Miss Lillemoe of Erskine, Minn., the daughter of a jeweler, lias been in a trance during the last month. She takes a small quantity of nourishment, but does not regain consciousness fully at any time. The young woman is a pupil of E. Chase, an amateur hypnotist, who is working hard in an attempt to awaken Miss Lillemoe. A Santa Monica electric car was held up a quarter of a mile outside the city limits of Los Angeles, Cal. In a fight between the passengers and three masked highwaymen one passenger was killed, two wounded and one highwayman shot several times, it is supposed fatally. The highwaymen secured no booty. It. A. Griswold of Manson, lowa, was the pas senger killed. The investigation of the Kansas City police department, started by charges of crooked work filed by City Jailer Todhunter before the board of police commissioners, has already developed sensational disclosures, and will be pushed. Todhunter in his testimony declared that the jailers have made a practice of taking money from prisoners who have nuy service rendered them, and also have regularly taken money from a lawyer for throwing cases his way. Other charges made during the investigation are to the effect that a sergeant and other officers at the Central station have stolen from drunken prisoners. Qn his way home from school 8-year-old Clarence Hunimell, son of George Huinmell of Findlay, Ohio, was captured by five schoolmates, forced to accompany them down the Blanchard river outside the city limits mid there, in a secluded spot, was tied to a stake. Preparations for his cremation were being made when the boy’s cries attracted the attention of men employed near the Findlay Hydraulic Press Brick works and he was rescued by them. Young IlummeH's captors had witnessed the production of n sensational play, and in talking it over made plans for the capture and the burning at the stake. A falling wall caught several volunteer firemen at Sheldon, Neb., at 10 o’clock Monday morning. Fred Colby was dragged out alive from beneath the debris. The lire originated Sunday afternoon in the office of a newspaper, and three buildings with their contents were destroyed. The smoldering ruins were fanned into a blaze again Monday morning. and Morris' drug store, Souther land's drug store and Hart's hardware store caught fire. The town being without fire protection more than 800 men, women and children turned out to light the flames, which, aided by a strong wind, threatened the entire business district.