Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1903 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Diamond* valued at $4,000 were stolen from a Minneapolis jewelry bouse by unknown persons. -Di Arkansas judge granted W. G. Tiffany of New York a divorce from his wife, formerly Mrs. Ysnnga. Elections were held Monday in lowa cities of the second class, politics generally being subordinated to local issues. Cardinal Gibbons lins accepted the invitation to offer the opening prayer at the Bt. Louis fair, us he did at the Chicago exposition. Luther Mays and William Lindsay, farmers of Cumberland, I. T., quarreled over a quantity of squirrels and Lindsay shot Mays dead. A. G. Spading, the Chicago sporting goods dealer, is reported to have become a member of Mrs. Tingley’s Point Loom Theospohlst colony. The night agent of the Santa l’o Kailroad at Cerrillos station, N. M„ was futility shot by two unknown men who robbed the depot. Enraged by the abuse of Newton Green, a city employe of Wichita, Kan.. Georgia Kent ley, aged l't» years, shot him and then killed herself. The Roseville Gas and Oil Company •truck a twenty-barrel producer in entirely new territory on Mayor William Darkness’ farm at Roseville, Ohio. Chicago is to have an afternoon newspaper, run exclusively by women. Its price will be a penny, and the first Itsuc may bo expected in the near future. Eva Pierson of Chicago died in n coach on r. Pennsylvania train near Coshocton, Ohio, from cerebral apoplexy. Hhe wtu on her way back to Germany. Three men wrecked the vault and safe of the State Hank at Greonsburg, Kail., with dynamite and got away with |4<hi. They escaped on a freight train. brands Hurt* and wife were nssassiunted at Ravin, 1. T., each being shot In the breast. Hare was a political leader among the Chickasaw*. The motive of the crime Is- not known. Two masked robber* held up three

men in George Keene’s saloon at East Atchison, Kan., at midnight and after securing SIOO and jewelry locked them in the icebox and escaped in a stolen rig. A. G. Staten lias discovered a rich anthracite coal mines about ten miles south of Havre, Mont. A specimen was sent to a chemical laboratory and pronounced a superior'terade of anthracite. 'Gustavos F. SwifrSJiead of Swift & Co packing industries, died suddenly in Chicago, aged 04 years. He was the originator of the present system of preparing and marketing dressed meats, and multimillionaire. Terry McGovern was knocked out in the eleventh-round by “Young” Corbett in fight for world’s lightweight championship at San Francisco; tire fight was rough throughout, with McGovern constantly clinching. One robber was killed and another wounded in a desperate battle at Bedford, near Cleveland, between n posse of citizens and three armed bandits. A great number of shots were exchanged before the bandits were brought to earth. Alderman Brenner of Chicago! wns held up by three men, armed with revolvers, in broad daylight and robbed of S3OO. His companion, Jacob Ivessner, is also minus a gold ring. The thieves made their escape in the Alderman’s buggy.^ The ‘f>t. Louis exposition dedicatory program has been adopted and will include a military parade on April 30 and dedication addresses by President Roosevelt and Grover Cleveland. Diplomats will be guests on May 1, and Governors on May 2. While playing policeman Hobart Duncan, aged 8, shot and killed a companion, William. Roberts, of the same age, at Wanamnker, Ok. Young Roberts was commanded to halt, refused and a load from a shotgun in Duncan’s hands killed him instantly. A. L. Belding was hanged at Portland, Ore., for the murder July 12, 1902, of his wife, his mother-in-law, Mrs. McCroskey, and Frank Woodward. Jealousy prompted the deed. Will Dorsey, colored, was hanged at Birmingham for highway robbery. Nathaniel Iv. Fairbank, business man, philanthropist and one of the builders of Chicago’s commercial and civic supremacy. died at his residence in that city. Mr. Fairbank htul been seriously ill for a week and his death, though sudden, was not unexpected. Two men were overcome by ammonia fumes, one so completely that he probaably will die, in explosions of carboys of the stuff in a fire which did more than $150,000 damage to the Fulton market, 2 to 20 Fulton Market square, Chicago, and the fifteen concerns occupying the building. East-bound California limited train No. 4 on the Santa Fe ran into the rear end of a freight train standing in the yards at Strong City, Ivan., killing many cattle and injuring three men. The engine of the limited wns badly damaged and five freight cars were crushed to kindling wood. Jacob M. Stnnbery, postmaster at Deavertown, Ohio, has been removed ns the result of an investigation by the department. Staubery in a signed confession admitted that for two years he had been opening letters sent to patrons of the office. Curiosity alone moved him. Nothing wns stolen. As the result of a conference between the officials the Citizens’ Savings and Trust Company and the American Trust Company of Cleveland, Ohio, have merged the interests of the two concerns. The capital stock of the united companies will be $4,000,000, deposits $27,000,000, resources $34,000,000. According to a statement by a St. Louis man the world's fair in all probability will be postponed until 1905. 11. M. Leonard, general manager of the Home Life Insurance Company, said he is almost certain this will‘be done on account of tho trouble the management is having securing skilled workmen. Charles Moore and Charles Hibler. 10-year-old boys, arrested for breaking into a jewelry store and stealing gems worth SIOO in Kansas City, have confessed to the police that they belong to a band of ■fourteen boys known as “The Burglars’ Union.” Each member paid weekly dues. Six of the members nre negroes. It is understood that the Appleyard Electric Railway syndicate, which has been operating extensively in southern Ohio, has planned an immense trunk line trolley system, giving a through line from Cincinnati to Cleveland, by way of Columbus, mid from Cincinnati to Toledo, by way of Dayton nml Springfield. It is announced that a combination is forming to take in the rolling mills of the middle West and that Mancie, Ind., is to be the headquarters of the concern. All factories manufacturing bar iron in Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin r.tnl Missouri, including mills in Chicago, Mancie, Muskegon, Milwaukee and St. Louis, are named. The new combine will he known as the American Rolling Mill Corporation. South-hound passenger train No. 28 on the Chicago, Burlington nml Quincy, from St. Louis to Quincy, was derailed four miles north of Thompson, 111., an.l twenty persons were injured. The two rear coaches, a Pullman sleeper and a chair car, turned over and immediately caught lire. Trainmen chopped a hole through the bottom of the chair car, through which the passengers were removed. Possibly two fatalities may result. A “double-header” freight crashed into the eaboose of another freight train on the Erie Itnilroad in a cut near Ashland, Ohio, derailing fifteen cars. F. L. Seif and W. 11. Wiuie of Gallon were killed, and Nilfer Evans and Albert Weis, engineers of tlie rear train, were hurt, hut not seriously. The men killed were firemen on the engines of the rear train. They, with the engineers, jumped, but botli of the firemen fell under the trnin and were run over. It is said the wreck wns enur'd by the displaying of n wrong signal.