Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1903 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Gov. Deforest Richards died at his home in Cheyenne, Wyo., of acute kiduey disease. Gen. Nelson A. Miles and William 3. Bryan delivered' addresses before the good roads conrentiou in St. Louis, Fire at Columbus, Ohio, caused .de&tU of one .fireman by falling wall and resulted in an aggregate loss of SOOO,OOO. Irving M. RcOtt, “the mau wfio built the -Oregon,” leading figure in business aud political life of Pacific coast, is dead^ George Johnson, n negro, shot .and killed Lewis Jackson and Walter Brum a u at St. Louis in a fight over a girl. Johnson ia under nrrest. Alexander Thompson, a negro, was lynched at Gurdon, Ark,, for stabbing and seriously wounding Hr. J. 11. Guffman, a well-known physician. < The manufacturing department of H. Scherer & Co.’s rarriuge works at Jefferson avenue and Woodbrulge street, Detroit, was damaged by tire to the extent of SIOO,OOO. Practically all eff thtF town of Melbourne, lowa, was, burned Tuesday morning. The burned area cover* about three blßcks, leaving only three buildings standing in the main street. Louis Decker, former member of the St. Louis house of delegates, was found guilty of perjury and sentenced to four years’ imprisonment. Counsel for the defendant asked a new trial. A direct trolley line from Chicago to Indianapolis is assured by the action of Winamac and North Judson, Ind., in granting a franchise to the Union Traction Company of iudianapolis. Mob of fanners lynched a negro who attempted to assault a little girl near Santa Fe, 111., and attacked a colony, of

negro bridge workers, wounding many of Theui'auU destroying flisUr ««Hip. sts Universlty"pf7lirhdTs, so have injurei 645 students in ten tears, hr 2:9 per ce : ofr total stnrtentfs who played. The IMduth tug trukt-'tSOlUraet eml ployiui wlto have been debarred roni working iwalyr the tyfm*; oft the i lion tugmen’s adjustment have purchastd i steamboat so engage in the iamber i iiov. Davis of Arkansas bbalsigneA an act of the le'gUlnt'ure making H std for non-remdenrs of the State to Bunt or fish at any season .of t the; year iif Arkansjii. 'The act goes iyifo effect at jgiee. By the premature explosion es a , charge in tlie reveille gun at htort tfleli* ing, YliUn., Private Carver of Conijjjauy II and Gorjioiml Foley, Company S, 3pre badly burned and lost parts - <Jt> seffiraY fingers. —— BO The plant A of fhb Inthrnwticttiul Company nt tilileagd was destroyed by fire, three grain wnselsj hoiMiug 1 mnehinery and acres of docks also ij|ing. i'lmsiuned. Tim loss,)* atffl,- ■, r -id i,,i | Tlie busfness portion of Cpuoy,a, SfiDu: was destroyed by fird. Tlie "postopee, ofbcp, and many, shinty busfiesa 'brinies' weft*! mirrteij. l>Te<f ; Trfppleil| am old niah, dWippeil-dead *mM*r txcftei&nt,. The loss is $20.060//.'<■ Z tIO'IT ) > , | J Lieut. Clov. Juliii. A. -ff'e of, Mi**uri has resigned/ By dperdfioif « stitution Senator Thomas iL. Ituhei of Ma«fp County, ipresUlont pyo bem.!oCthe Senate, who represents the Ninth Sbls* tget, gpcqeyds ,j [ /.[' I V , The fSoo”, ItuiJwayI'egi:.la(9r,Sfof North Dakota-to, alt phkses; as under tht Elkins rilftad, passes to State officials are illc^B 1 ?/' &atd officials and legislators will my Beid fare herdafter'. /-' ; £ f / Mrs. Helen M. flohgar •T.Wf f aj4te,‘ Ind,. w)ub i« tgutiiig ihe WorlA:witli|jier iiusband, has sueef (th ¥ Pp9pl^’Mfid4ien 7/ dent party of Nebraska for speeches on y !\lie Uafsts dimtig'' rr A ( iiKMtinaJi,. Hannltou ‘train, •(hmsistlrij; of fAsfige' ear and two fiii nSi Ufe#riile<ll att. Bafehr—tmting, four mites south of H'o-„ Isdii, ffifThisMfn iVrW inyißed/ sgre/i iilyicQsly,. hut imne futbUorJ/ jft 0 J i’Jre of the jhW CgtiiliffiV at < 'iiicago, IrwiLS a frame building Buiinuifa lmlf m ps f"v YU '<'■;t/h igf J*Vhi> ttedb COiP.lJiiJidier'. C<fillHind,' dl ftrirl J ' wa4j at, his home in Dnlufh. Mjtin., iti.a iv^ult r J Jtff rialV Bfeeirlc 1 sbritk /'iusttflifeti tvftjilei. tufhJiifljQU- Bui JigW faibaif dt Ufai htj|er, rofijns yyldie seeking t/glussfiOf \V. B..,lluiurmh sMjejdl at ; 'iianiiibal, Mo.,' by shooting ( / jMßslelf through the head* with a revolver When b« aroig from ids-s.lumbers, W*. inihil- ] ity to'g’aiii'admlssibh tri .'the lorial Icwige. of a stHcret'society is given as the .cn^lse. . ; thousand union ittid iH»tr-usjon ijetgfcworkers went on strife* 6n the plantof the Peering Harvester Coim>tjnj|/m CliieagQ for thc.reinatateineut of lt)0 fijen diseligrged for belyiitfiagAo the ■fijiion and for recognition of the United Metal VVorkfrrs . fclnlofi. ' The imdy of fitifc Krueger, ft wealthy f&rmer, ' aged 70 years;- who had ijeeti missing for several days from Cranger, Minn., was fou+nl weighted down fffth ktWials. ou; tiic;rivtr bottom.'- Siis tHjffa, 30 (-years innior, ; -jhas hegM gnreifelr jchgrgtslr' w'iti* xirjicdgr., y,> ; i7 -■~ -j • rSSS wV°.y.~Vdiu 7*?aiif of MmWsotn. lih* vetded’ the Peachey' htil,‘flitts liiafeiag If impossible for div-tri’S&Ppef'sbn» to agaip. iinincdiJrtefy'trftar .decree el ■Mfrtt -To t»sd 'lii< 4iofreruQtt.do6s not fuel that any apology, fur 'llftjfthi 4i liscyssarj*. _• ■ ; ♦ Three met) yracked (he safe /fu tlije post office a{ Vyrgys.oul a mthylrb •pf Sfe Louis, seetmfd/fraf ill cmsh and $lB ffl stan\prt'and . escaped -after ,a running bnjtte with jeitfisMis,' Reed, -in which fteany -'shors Were exchringej, bjtt nojond ivsas taJnredJi il M +

Judges Grosscup add Philips, sittirtj; eu lupc in "jLlluciug-p, granted;H permanent iiij'iiiCiSitt.in favor of tlie government Mr strntning fdjirteeu railroads east ant! hbim'd from Chicago, from, giviug •discriminntnig or Secret' from paying rebates*.to shippers/ After a running battle,! ip which one bandit Was wounded,-. Sheriff • Abuse Of Williams County, Ohio, and Sheriff Sheperd of. Lenawee County. Michigan, captured threp men who.are supposed TO have been breaking safes in northern Ohio ami southern Michigan. In Helerta. Mont., fire almost destroyed tho Montana Club-building, causing a loss of SIOO,OOO, with insurauce (if $75,000. The fire, started iu the seventh story and is supposed to have been of incendiary origin. Two attempts weft made to burn the building-hi a week. I

President Roosevelt laid the corner stone of Hie new archway at the gate lii Yellowstone Park; at Gai'dineC, Mont. He made an address referring to tlte natural beauties of the park and Snyiolg, thg| the people of Montana and adjoining'Slates should take a special pftde fe fe'-.." •.. •; * " ■ taar , Alexander and Thomas Stevens, ajfro 1C and 14 years were Arrested in Kansas City at the instigaljori of the Humane Society, charged vjjith horsewhipping their aged mother, striking her with their fists aDd cursing Sker because She had corrected them- !Dhe family came from Kentucky -five months' ago. . - y Fire in tho.Jfewish quarter ip the vipinAty of Pittsburg street, Cleveland, [destroyed twenty dwefling houses', ranfcrmg‘* 20t) persons homeless. Tlie* started iii n near by cooperage, shop jnd spread to the dwellings before it c<wld be ebeeked. The tiiouey loss is praci d at SSO.WQ. : f Uufua UfUitrell, the “king of ff»e ghouls,” was found guilty on two eogpts by a jury ift'the criminal court at Indianapolis. < Tho first count was for robbing the grave of Rosa Neidlinger and the second was for conspiracy with Dr. Joseph C. Alexander, demonstrator of aaatomy at the Central College of Physicians and surgeons, to rob her grave. - In the furniture workers’ injunction case at Evansville,' Ind., Judge Foster, In sustaining a demurrer of one of the -furniture companies to the furniture workers’ plea in abatement, held that a union, even in its unincorporated condition, may be sued when the suit pertains to questions affecting the relations of the union members to public safety and order. At Middletown, Ohio, the Middletown

Gas and OU Company struck a heavy flow' oTgiu «I'a dei7£F of GOO feelT"33u ''giasyift.yaa.iii’H'ina Smith iknffVanjes Kogtrs, driliaTK mere • U(rriMy< 1 allied /•Tkef yK!h-n'ls l»l«m'A) fr i II ?*Jell aid Hit td|tii l| ;ni», . r * *1 0t Xs S, fe! 1 Tr 1 1 ? it|« rsV9.' J, Da tm, hat jbr ‘i| otilt 1 »>jf lil ypiqliui |r tl|s; tfon|c| |> laic r *thst( h(h lAmlt u ei ijpt>i£ |a|cf njh liltar 5 * hIS new Hiurai BeMon ”hotnevA'4, slummhms. dtve- - iPite-. wwek'- thus-, for-AM*-. been done by members of Father Dalton's parish, The contractor in* charge of the work is a','union mrimber, blit * his then have been hired-' Without ref ere tea to tlieir union prindiplos^ i A north-hound” Missouri’ Pacific, stock train crashed h»to * She ' whrkt jtrpip just north Jof Buffalo !; NAn/, j ancf -eleven jneu were killed and 7twentytftfe' ibjrtr<rd: Tcfarri'f file, iffitteF are dftY* soil font prQhh»'b f , LntaJly hurt,They .were Greeks and Italians, r excepting. 6ite, Pote/TTy, J an Amerieirt, who Wits a beks on the work train. f Thr cause Partite n-reek given as 9j? ( 1 fKUnt»»IT/ a-shfall towri -is»Af Jliarley, jWif., lyoi destfbye*! byjfirj ternoon. Yfost of the citizens escaped -riie cfofhes ! tute. Forest fires arc raging, in’the vi-1 hlf Ashiiiiid, ‘rtnd, fahmedhy a Aftile fhxesjefi towns, and will burn millions of -feet of kshAinedbe ftritlri’jtiiinr.anskofet^Mvw?) of the town. , Mali? homesteaiders ,am lo n;i^edif i en / .bi'ri-il'ed dhtt IWokeyicjiterhiiugr‘Hringotok 4nd tindery: ia* vtfcßre/lfas ! been t»p; BaliijttJnj* & pas ( alarnking) esteiitiu Tdnni',7 or: 1 Hi’J