Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1903 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Forty-five German farmers who are touring ther United States to study agriculture arrived at St. Louis, Suit was filed at Cincinnati asking for a receiver for the McFudden-Weiss Oil and Gas Company, a Texas corporation. A. I), Davidson, of Duluth, ami his associate* have closed a deal for 3.000,000 acres of Canada land, paying $12,000,000. Localise her sister refused to comb her hair, Ona Mason, a 13-.vear-old Cleveland girl, committed suicide by swallowing carbolic acid. Children in two of the parochial schools at Omaha, Neb., struck for shorter hours. The movement may spread to public schools. W. I’erry was killed by bis brother, G. I>. Perry, during n family quarrel at their home Hear Vanndale, Ark. He was exonerated before the County Judge. ltev. H. S. Bigelow, of Cincinnati, defends Sunday baseball, holding that a laboring man who is busy all week observes Sabbath by finding recreation., Ail unknown Cleveland member of the Knights of Cohmtbus has added $4,000 to the SI,OOO offered for the arrest of the slayer of Agatha Relelilin at Lorain, 0. Strikers at Omaha secured an injunction against the business men forbidding them to boycott union men or to hold meetings to conspire against the meu now out. The head and arm of n woman were found floating in the Yellowstone River, near Gardner, Mont;, leading to the belief that a murder was committed in Yellowstone Park. The Chicago, Indiana and Michigan Traction Company, capital sboo,ooo, was Incorporated at Indianapolis. Au independent trolley line with Chicago as its terminus is being built. In a quarrel at Cincinnati over a trivial matter btweeu William Khrtloy and John Henry, yming colorcd laborers, who were roommates, Henry stabbed and killed Easterly. Henry escaped. Frank C. Kearney threw two ounces of carbolic acid into his wife’s face on the .street in St. Louis and escaped puras«£ Msfcarcc! "!* ut , the face and neck and one arm. Orte man was kiiled, another, fatally crushed and a third badly hurt in a street car collision on tlie road to Euclid beach, Cleveland. The dead man’s name is Galvin and his home is in Cleveland, A four-story brick building at San Fraucisco, occupied by the American Milling Company, of which Charles riaunieist«r is the chief owner, was destroyed by tire. The loss Is SIOO,OOO. Lynching of three negroes at Fremont. Ohio, for the murder of Otto Misehke and wounding of Albert Gotnmoll was prevented by Sheriff Mascn, who for two hours defied the mob at the jail doors. Captain Frauk Pennell, chief of police of Quebec, Canada, died oq a Wabash train between Toledo and St. Ixiuis. while on his way to New Orleans to attend the convention of chiefs of police. The St, Louis and San Francisco Railroad system, with 4.000 miles of track, has been bought by the Rock Island; SOO in 5 per cent ten-.vear bonds at 100, and SOO in Rock laland common shares paid. Profeasor T. F. Hunt, dean of the College of Agriculture of the Ohio State University, has accepted the profeasor■bip of agronomy in the college of agriculture of Cornell Univwsity, ItV>ca, N. Y. In a baseball game between Cedarville

College and Wilberforce University at the Wilberforce grounds, not far from Springfield,. Ohio, Charles Glenn, center fielder for the Cedarville team, wa* fatally injured. } Twenty thousand workmen are idle In Chicago because of strikes; 6,000 Deering harvester works employes out and 1,100 at Lassig iron wotks; 1,200 National Biscuit employes locked out; 1,000 ( electrical workers quit. , j The Federal Salt Company lias been 1 convicted in the United States Court at Ran Francisco on the maintaining a monopoly. The dgefston marks an important victory for the government under the Sliermau anti-trust law. Dr. Albert Alonzo Ames, four times Mayor of Miuueapolis and central figure in the system of "graft” that held sway in that city during 1001 and 1002, was found guilty of accepting a bribe of S6OO. The jury deliberated for twenty-four hours. ° A distinct earthquake shock was felt in the Grand Valley of Colorado. The shock lasted several seconds and seemed to travel from the northwest to the east and the southeast. Tills is the first seismic disturbance on the western slope in many years. The body of J. Bert Sin Her, a writer of sonic note, was found in the woods cast of Ivendnllrille, Ind., with a bullet in the head. 11l henlth was the supposed cause of suicide. His former home was at Kalamazoo and he once was editor of a Galesburg, Mich., paper. After being held for a month iu connection with the disappearance of Mrs. F. E. Knight, Mrs. Lucinda Dusenbury and her son Melvin were released ou SSOO bonds at Omaha, Neb. i'he police have found no trace of Mrs. lvuight’s body. Knight is still at large. President T. C. Dupont of the Wilmington, Del., powder firm of E. I. Dupont, Do Namours & Co., aud head of the combination of eastern powder concerns. has been in San Francisco trying to add to the eastern amalgamation the powder companies of California. Rhollenbarger Brothers’ livery barn and the Bijou Theater were destroyed by fire at Hamilton, Ohio. A number of fine horses were cremated. Several actresses were rescued from sleeping apartments above the theater. The loss is $30,000, with insurance of SIO,OOO. Jesse Morrison, convicted of killing Mrs. 01 in Castle three year# ago at Eldorado, Kan., and sentenced to twentyfive years’ imprisonment, must serve her sentence, according to an opinion handed down by the Supreme Court, which affirmed the decision of the trial court. Clay Taylor, alias Prof. Pluttc, was arrested at Ran Jose, Cal., for supposed designs upon the life of the President. He has served three terms in prison. It is alleged that lie wrote to the President, advising him not to visit Sun Jose. He U also act-used of recent anarchistic utterances. Dr. Robert M. Hartman, professor of chemistry in the Colorado School of Mines, is dead and C. Darwin Test, an instructor in the same branch, is in a serious condition as the result of asphyxiation by fumes of hydro-sulphite in the experiment room while endeavoring to repair the machinery by which the acid is made. At Topeka the Kansas Supreme Court a dinned the sentence of bigamy of James S. Pendleton, alias Coda S. Lorris, a Missouri man who went to Oklahoma, wrote to his wife over an assumed name that her husband was (lead, had a cake of ice buried in a coffin as Pendleton, then went to Emporia and married a young girl. Twenty persons were injured, a few seriously, in a collision between two south-bound electric cars at West Fortythird and Hoisted streets, Chicago. One woman was taken from the wreck into a shoe store. It is feared she is fatally injured. Others were thrown about the cars and sustained injuries from broken limbs and bruises. The “water cure” is being used on patients in the Kansas State Insane asylum at Topeka. The fact was brought out before the committee appointed by the Legislature to investigate alleged scandals in the asylum. A sheet is tied over the head of the obstreperous patient, he is thrown and water is poured on his head until he gives up. Thirty thousand people assembled in Kansas City Convention Hall Sunday afternoon to hear the first absolutely free public concerts the Theodore Thomas Orchestra ever , gave. Arthur E. Stillwell. president of the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railroad, bought the hall for the two concerts and threw open its doors to the general public. Isom Donnell, another of the Indianapolis grave robbers, pleaded guilty uud received a sentence of one to three years. When the judge'said to him that, as he was 33 years old, he would have to go to Michigan City mid would not be able to see Rufus Cantrell, he replied: “I’ve seen too much of Cantrell already.” Cantrell and Donnell are cousins. - Chief Justice Sullivan, of the Nebraska Supreme Court, lias signed an order suspending the sentence of Mrs. Lena Lillie until her ease can be reviewed by the Supreme Court, which will probably be in September. In the meantime she will remain in the Butler County jail. Mrs. Lillie Was convicted of murdering her husband ami given a life sentence. Third'll failure, Tu which the debts originally amounted to nearly $1,000,000 and which for years has occupied the attention of the courts, was closed in Cincinnati by the announcement that $15,000 remained to be distributed. ThD was obtained from sureties ou the bomh of John B. Mannix, the original assignee, who himself became a bankrupt while administering the assignment.