Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1903 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The entire business section of Dunsmuir. Cal., waa destroyed by fire. Loss $50,000. In a regr-end collision on the Santa Fe Road at Gualalupe, N. M., one man was killed and three were seriously injured. / Andrew Carnegie has offered the memorial library trustees at Mansfield, Ohio, $35,000 for a new library building.. The offer will be accepted. The early fruit crop throughout Ohio waa badly damaged by the recent frost and snow. Early peaches, plums, cherries and apples in bloom were froaen.

Clover In the central part of Ohio la reported turned black, but ia thought not to be permanently jojured. The Ran Francisco jury in the caae of Walter N. Dim mock, accused of stealing $30,000 from the United States mint, rendered a verdict of guilty. The Kesher Shell Borzei, a benevolent Hebrew order, took final action at Cincinnati, Ohio, to close the endowment or insurance feature of the order. Victor Murdock, an old-time Chicago newspaper man, has been nominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Seventh Kansas District at Great Bend. Two men were burned to death and three others were slightly injured in u fire in a four story brick building used ■s a boarding bouse in Kansas City. Benjamin F. Ayer, former Chicago corporation counsel, and general coMftel for the Illinois Central Railroad, died at 82 Astor street of pneumonia, aged 78 years. Leger, Okla., bank was . robbed by three men of SB,OOO in cash intended for Indian paymenta; doors forced open at 11 p. m„ safe blown open, and one citizen shot in fight which followed. Judge Adams, of the United States District, in St. Louis, in refusing an injunction Sbnght by the Chicago Board of Trade to guard quotations, said dealing in futures is simple gambling. Republican gains were shown in city election*, at Rock Island, MoliTie and Streator, 111., where that party’s tickets were elected. The Democrats were victorious at Quincy and Springfield. llnndits entered a crowded saloon at Council Bluffs, lowa, and ordered hands up. The proprietor did not respond quickly and was killed. The Police are rounding up all suspects as the slayers. The California man who was arrested for making threats against President McKinley’s, life has again been put in prison, having threatened injury to President Roosevelt when he visits the coast. Buried treasure amounting to SIB,OOO was found by a plumber under a house at Helena, Mont. As a reward for his discovery the claimants of the treasure, John McCormick and wife, gave him sl. At Osmond, Neb., robbers entered the Security State Bank and blew open the safe with dynamite, but were frightened away by citizens before they could secure any money. There was $4,000 in the safe.

A. R. Meyer of the executive committee of the American Smelting nnd Refining Company; says that the large smelting plant in Argentine, Kan., is to be permanently abandoned nnd the buildings razed. Carter H. Harrison, Democrat, was re-elected Mayor of Chicago by 7,53 S plurality over Graeme Stewart, Republican. Alderman Smulski, Republican, whs elected City Attorney, and F. C. Bender, Republican, City Clerk. Nathan Warner, a life-long Republican and pioneer resident of Wright County, Minnesota, was killed while going to Buffalo to take a train for Minneapolis to see and hear President Roosevelt. He was walking on the track, and was struck by a Soo train.. At Hamilton, Ohio, Alfred A. Knapp, the self-confessed murderer, pleaded not guilty to the indictment charging himwith the murder of his wife, Hannah Goddard Knapp, to whose murder, with five others, Knapp has already confessed. There was no crowd in court. . City Marshal S. P. Howland of Gardner, Kan., during a fight lasting half an hour, shot and killed Bud Briggs in 'Gardner while Briggs with two companions was trying to secure the release of Estelle Briggs, a brother, whom the officer' had atrested for disorderly conduct. It transpires that President Roosevelt in the course of his recent stay in Minneapolis offered tlie vacancy in the Civil Service Commission to W. W. llcffeifmger. the famous Yale guard ami now a leading citizen of Minneapolis. Mr. IleflVlfinger lias not yet given his unswir.

M. E. Ingalls was defeated for Mayor of Cincinnati by Julius Fleisehniaun, Republican; Tom L. Johnson and Democratic city ticket was elected at Cleveland; Sam Jones, non-partisan, and Republican ticket, at Toledo; Michigan Republican State ticket was elected by 35,000 plurality. Ephraim B. Cockrell, son of the senior Missouri Senator, and Miss Hazel Hogan, of Webster Grove, were married, in St. Louis on the eve of his departure for Mexico, where he is the head of a plantation company. They notified the parents of Miss Hogan and Senator Cockrel by wire. One fatality and considerable loss of property resulted from a windstorm which visited the vicinity of Appleton, Wis. Percy M. Clark, civil engineer of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway, was struck by a falling tree and killed, about thirty miles north of Appleton. Property losses throughout the eounty will aggregate several thousand dollars. xTlie second attempt within a week to burn the town of Montgomery, Ind., was made early Monday. Just before daylight five fires were started with oil soaked rags in, as many buildings in the business section of the town. All the fires were extinguished withrrat heavy loss. The citizens have organized a vigilance committee and declare they will lynch the incendiaries. Mrs. Susan Updike was placed in jail at Akron, Ohio, charged with causing the death of Andrew Fasnacht. Mrs. Updike confessed, saying Fasnacht was playing the part of a “Peeping Tom” at her home and ahe hit him in the head with a club, fracturing his skull. The maa was killed Saturday night, and the body lay undiscovered in the yard* of Mrs. Updike’s home till Sunday afternoon. , - , Eighteen-year-old Daisy Jewell was charged with stealing a parse containing $0 from a Cleveland lunch room where she worked as a waitress. While a detective was questioning her at her "boarding house he picked up a curl paper and absent-mindedly unrolled it. A name on it was that of the girl from whom the money was stolen and the bit of paper he recognized as a receipt that was in the poeketbook. Then Daisy Jewell confessed. Attorney Fred Hagerman has arranged for the payment of fines and costs io .the Bupreme Court at Jefferson City, Mo!, the beef packers’ cases. The fines are $5,000, or a total of $25,000, and the costs are $2,130.75. making a grand total of $27,130.75. The fiues go into the State Treasury for the benefit of the revenae funds, and will enable Got. Dockery to save that amount in appropriation bills, which he has threatened

to vito. The beef packers will not now be ousted of tbeir right to do business in the State. . While forty children were eating their dinner at the Wathen school house uear Washington, Ind., a tornado struck the building, one end of which gave way, failing Inward. Carrie Smoot, one of the children, was struck by a flying brick and fatally injured and several others were badly hurt. Other fatalities were: O. 0. May, at Oakland City; Oscar Cummins, st Alexandria; Cummins, 10-year-old daughter of Oscar; Mrs. George Cunningham, at English; Cunningham, 10-yenr old son of George; unidentified ffen hand, at English. The property damage was heavy. Much stock was killed.