Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1903 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The Superior Court at Cincinnati has decided tlyit newspaper guessing contests are legal. The Wisconsin Assembly killed Gov. La Follette's rate-controlling commission bill by an overwhelming vote. The C. E. Lewis Hardware Company was bnrncd out at Emporia, Kail. The loss on the stock is $20,000 and on buildings SIO,OOO. in a decision filed at St/Paal. Minn., the State Supreme Court holds that a verdict recovered by a shipper for damagea against an express company for

bird* confiscated from the express company by the State game warden is warranted. It wns authoritatively announced that the Erie freight offices are to be moved from Cleveland to Chicago. The Change will lie made before June 1. Judge Anderson of Indianapolis refused le application of George Hoadly of Cincinnati for a writ of habeas corpus in the Moses Fowler Chase case. Fire broke out in the lumber district along the water front iu North Portland, Ore., and destroyed property valued at $210,000, with insurance of about $60,000. . ' Father Walter, arrested for the alleged murder of Agatha Reichlin, at Lorain, Ohio, has been set at liberty by the coroner's jury, there being no evidence upon which to hold him. I». M. Malone, preacher of sect known ns "Sanctified People,” and Constable W. J. Mooneyhon were shot to death by mob at Wardeli, Mo., following former’s arrest by Mooneyhon. The Western Association of Princeton Clubi, at its meeting at Cincinnati, elected James C, Ernst of Covington, ,Ky., president, and Lawrence Young of Chicago first vice-president. Frank James and Cole Younger appeared at the Lake street police station iu Chicago tlie other day and reported that a horse valued at SIOO had been stolen from their show.

Captain Frederick Kohler has been appointed chief of the Cleveland, Ohio, police department to succeed George Corner. who has been retired on pension because of physical dislUTnlity. W. It. Vice, for many years Pacific coast agent for the Union Pacific Railroad, Is missing from San Francisco. General Passenger Agent Hitchcock says Vice is short in his accounts. The directors of the Lewis & Clark exposition at Portland, Ore., has decided to stop all work on the fair grounds until the referendum on the State appropriation of $500,000 is settled. Gov. Chamberlain of Oregon has written a letter presenting a sword from the people of Oregon to Admiral C. E. Clark, who commanded the battleship Oregon during the Spanish war. Rev. Ferdinand Walser, who, was a guest at the home of Miss Agatha Iteielilin, who was murdered in Lorain, Ohio, tho other night, has been arrested on suspicion.of having committed the crime. A fa.-t passenger train on the Grand Trunk plunged into a crowd of a thousand merrymakers at Detroit, mangling scores of persons. Eight "are known to have been killed and about forty injured. Frank J. Milnes of Northwestern University won the seventh annual contest of the Northwestern Oratorical League in Minneapolis. Eugene Marshall, representing Michigan, was second, and Geo. I’. Jones of Minnesota third. Henry Herman, the missing Milwaukee capitalist, has written to a friend in that city declaring that he will return and pay his indebtedness some day. He gives no clew to his whereabouts, but is supposed to be in South Africa.

Institutional Methodist Church, 3525 Dearborn street, Chicago, was partly wrecked by a bomb after llev. It. C. Ransom, the pastor, preached a stirring sermon on the evils of policy playing and started a crtisale against that form qf gambling. The temperature fell below freezing and fruit trees aud early vegetables suffered much damage from frost in many localities in northern Ohio. Ice formed at numerous points. In some cases the destruction of the fruit crop is reported to complete. ~ * Several persons were injured and much property damaged by an explosion of natural gas in Upper Sandusky, Ohio. A plumber was investigating a gas leak in the restaurant and bakery of P. Cofflett, when the explosion occurred, shaking the entire city. Charles Reed, 42 years old, a widower, who has been employed by the Wertz Transfer Company, was murdered at Hamilton, Ohio. Ills body was then placed on the railroad tracks near Heno in the hope that a passing train would conceal all evidence of the crime. Three persons are dead and twentyeight injured as a result of ah explosion which wrecked the plant of the Thor Manufacturing Company in Cleveland. The company manufactures toy torpedo canes and other explosives. The pecuniary loss will not exceed SIO,OOO. Throe members of the Chicago Y. M. C. A. have been arrested for robbing lockers in the association building, the thefts in the last year approximating $2,000. A colored man is involved, as is a jeweler to whom the alleged thieves disposed of some of the stolen articles. Except for two bequests of SIO,OOO each to the Minnesota Historical Society and the St. Panl Relief Society, the estate of Gov, Alexander Ramsey of Minnesota is divided nmoiig his daughter, Mrs. Marion It. Furness, and her three children. The estate is valued at $225,000. A coroner’s inquest at Mabel, Minn., returned a verdict that Emile Krueger, the aged man found murdered and thrown into the Root river near Mabel, came to his death by the hand of an assassin. The jury did not fix the crime on Mrs. Kruger, but she is held on suspicion. It is learned that the refusal cf Mrs. Stanford to consent to the substitution of a paid quartet for the voluntary choir in the Stanford University chapel led to the resignation of Rev. Dr. Ileber Newton. Other differences stimulated the friction betweeu Dr. Newton aud the trustees.

Elmer D. Town, in the employ of a firm at Deadwood. S. D,, shot himself through the heart in the presence of his wife, after a night of gambling and dissipation. He had received his wages; and instead of taking them home had gone to a local gambling establishment aud lost them playing faro. Henry Farrell, a negro, went to the station nt Smithton, Art, and demanded of Agent Grizzle that he ‘give him np the money in the safe. He fonud a shotgun and fired three times at Grizzle, hitting him in the back. Tbe negro then robbed the postoffice. Returning to the -street, lie fired at every house in range,-but no one was injured. Officers fired on him, killing him instantly.

The body of Charles Reed, aged 42, employed by a local transfer company, was cut to pieces by a Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton train near Hamilton. Ohio. Investigation showed the man had been dead tome hoofs before the body was mangled by tbe train. The police are positive Reed was murdered and bis

body placed on the track in an attempt to conceal evidence of the crime. .Nettr Madiaon, S. D., John G. Krueger was killed by Paul A. Thurlow. Thurlow hud married Kraeger’s daughter the day previous. Krueger never had seen Thurlow, but he objected to the marriage because of religious differences. He attacked Tbnrlow with a revolver and Thurlow returned the fire. The Supreme Court of Minnesota sustained a" decision of the Ramsey County Court whereby Uri Lamprey, of St. Paul, is declared lo be entitled to 50,000 acres of laud valued at SIOO,OOO, claimed by Itusaell Sage, of New York. In 1887 the St. Paul nnd Chicago Railway Company entered into a contract with Lamprey to convey to him about 100,000 acres of land, and later, claiming a failure to complete the purchase, the corporation deeded the land to Russell Sage. This decision confirms the title in Lamprey on payment of $02,202. Intense excitement prevails in Lorain, Ohio, as a result of the brutal murder of Miss Agatha Reichleu, by an unknown man. Miss Reichlen lived with her brother. Rev. Father Reichlen of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, who was absent from the city when the crime was committed. A younger brother of the victim and Rev. Wallace were, however, guests at the priest’s home. Late in the uight they heard Miss Reichlen scream. They rushed to her room and in the hallway they met a man, who ordered them away. He then rushed to the window and jumped out. Miss Reichlen was dead. Her head was battered to a pulp. The intruder had put a ladder to the roof of the house and crnwled from the roof into the attic window. Hounds were put on the trail and frantic efforts made to catch the murderer.