Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1903 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Heavy rainfall in the Northwest has broken the dangerous drought and insures a bumper wheat crop. A. B. Parker of Chicago, a sign painter, was killed near Walkerton, Ind., by a Baltimore and Ohio freight train. Among four bodies recovered at Heppner, Ore., after the flood, was that of Charles M. Peterson, a Chicago traveling man. Fire at Tucson, Arizona, caused $30,000 loss at the San Xavier Hotel, owned by the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. Crazed by intense pain of a cancer, Captain George E. Townsend, a former steamboat pilot, aged 70 years, hanged himself at St. Louis, Mo. John Wiukins, an employe of the Sells & Downer circus, was killed at Ogden, Utah, by an elephant which he had maltreated several months ago. Fire resulting from an exploding boiler In the power plant of the American Malting plant at Milwaukee resulted in prop.erty loss of approximately $1,000,000. Owing to tlie large number of suburban cars which have been held up, the Oregon company r.t Portland has armed its conductors and inotoriueu with revolvers. The Nebraska Democratic State central committee selected Aug. 25 at Columbus as time and place for holding the convention. Fusion with the Populists is probable. The high waters of the Rio Grande north of El Paso, in New Mexico, have driven hundreds of families from their homes, and these have taken refuge in the foothills. Strike affecting H. 11. Ivohlsaat & Co. of Chicago has been settled, and the waiters and bakers return to work in the same positions they occupied when the strike was called. „> James Irwin, twenty-three years a prisoner in the penitentiary at Columbus, Ohio, was released long enough to see an electric car go by the gate. The sight caused him excitement. Bogus “Lord Barrington,” sentenced

to St. Louis* (Mo.) workhouse sfter bis marriage to Kansas City girl, was arrested in former city for alleged murder of J. P. McCann; Barrington was a guest at McCann’s hotel. Orin Price, a stage driver, shot and killed hds 2-year-old baby, wounded his wife and Ed Leach, a sawmill hand, at the depot at Stiles, Idaho. Jealousy is said to have caused the shooting. Lynching was threatened. Almost the entire plant of the Cincinnati Abbatoir Company, of which Gen. Michael Ryan is president, was destroyed by fire. The fire was caused by an explosion in the engine room. The loss is estimated at $300,000. By eating meat cooked in a kettle in which spray poison had been mixed six weeks before the entire family of exCongressman C. M. Kem of Montrose, Colo., formerly of Nebraska, eleven persons iu all, were prostrated. None has died. Rev. O. K. Posey, father of eighteen children, has eloped from Cook, Ok., with Miss Josephine Shelton, the pretty 18-year-old daughter of a neighboring farmer. He left a mortgaged farm and an estimable wife and eight children at home. »

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William A. Havemeyer,’Chicago representative of the'Americau Sugar Refining Company, who has been closely associated with the growth of tha. sugar industry in this country for many years, died at his home in Riverside, 111., after an illness of several months. What is said to be the first municipal tuberculosis sanitarium in this country lias been opened in Cleveland.) All patients under treatment for tuberculosis iu the city hospital will be removed to the new institution and treated according to the latest scientific methods. Broker F. CV Fuller and his 13-year-old son, Harold, who went rowing in Lake Erie at Cleveland, have not been heard of or seen since. A boat that is identified by the boathouse keeper as the one engaged by Filler was found off shore, upside down and empty. Enough giant powder and nitroglycerin were found in the penitentiary at Canyon City, Colo., to blow up the entire prison. This discovery was made after the convicts who had attempted to escape were pat through the sweating process. The explosives were concealed in the wall of one of the shops. L. M. Wilson, who says he is a traveling SRleanmn for the Armour Packing Company, was assaulted at Second and Cherry streets, St. Joseph, Mo., and fatally stabbed and cut. Many wounds cover his body. He claims to be ignorant of the identity of his assailant other than that he was a white man. At Topeka, Ivan., the house killed a bill by Representative B. P. Waggener appropriating $1,000,000 from the State Treasury to repair and reconstruct the bridges across the Knw River that were damaged or wrecked by the recent flood. Cities and counties, however, were empowered to repair the ruins. John D. Rockefeller is now the ruling power in the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. John C. Osgood, for many years head of the concern, who last year conducted a winning fight against John W. Gates and the Hawley-Harriman combination in their attempts to wrest control from him, has resigned. John C. Fish of Shelby, Ohio, has been appointed receiver for the Shelby Motor Car Company. The liabilities are placed at SOO,OOO, assets $50,000. The petition for a receivership was filed by J. J. Jackson of Cleveland, who feared that creditors would commence suits against the company and entahgle its affairs. Rev. C. H. Thomas at n mass meeting of negroes in Quinn Chapel. Chicago, advised his hearers to arm themselves and defend their race from lynchers. “If this burning is not stopped by the constituted authorities,” he said, "then I say to every black man, ‘go sell vour coat and buy a gun to defend yourself.’ ”

Harry H. Adkins has been appointed receiver for the Star Petroleum Company of Lima, Ohio. Frank 11. Blackman, a Detroit stockholder, made the application for a receiver. The company is capitalized at $1,000,000 and its property is said to be heavily encumbered. There are stockholders in a number of Western States. At Fargo, N. D„ a jury In the United States Court returned a verdict of guilty against Messrs. siiller, Randall and Gilder, charged with using. the United States mails for purposes of fraud. They were promoters of mutual hail insurance companies, and are alleged to have secured nearly SIOO,OOO by promoting and then wrecking such companies. Fire almost destroyed the massive plants of the Riddle Coach and Hearse Company at Ravenna, Ohio, creating a loss of $250,000. Of this amount only SIO,OOO was covered by insurance. It was the largest fire in the history of Portage County, and for a time it was feared that all the business places along 51ain street would I»e-destroyed. Postofflee Inspector Drake and the local police have arrested three supposed leaders of a gang of country pontofflee robbers who have been working North Dakota for several months. The men are Alex. Bell, Andrew Hendel, alias May, and one named Gray. Gray was arrested at Bottineau, where the postoffice was plundered some time ago. The world’s fair company expended $8,500,000 in cash up to the fire* of the present month, as shown by the report of the auditing committee of tlie national commission at work in St. Louis. Contracts have been let by the exposition company that will approximately complete the expenditure of the $10,000,000 required by the act of Congress before any*of the government funds are available.

Prince Yee, non of the King of Corea and heir to the throne, whq is attending tlie Ohio Wesleyan University, is infatuated with Miss Clara Bull of Cincinnati, a pretty milliner who has been employed in the city of Delaware, Ohio. Since her return home be has called on her and several times made her several valuable presents of jewels, including a diamond ring. He denies, however, that they are engaged. Commissioner of Public Works Dewitt H. Moreland of Detroit, siich., one of the appointees under the “ripper” act of the Legislature of two years ago, was removed /rom office by the City Council the other evening as the result of an Investigation of his office which has been going on for two weeks. It is charged that be has misapplied public funds and solicited bribes from contractors. Mayor Maybury at once appointed his cousin, William H. Maybury, chairman of the

Deinoerstic County Committee, to succeed Moreland. Moreland has disappeared, but it la learned from a source worthy of belief that he is in Mexico or oa his way there. The explosion of an ammonia carboy on the fourth floor of the mala building of the Citizens’ Brewery qf the United Breweries Company, Main street and Archer avenue, Chicago, wrecked the entire upper part of the building, blocked the streets with bricks and wreckage, broke many window panes in the vicinity and injured three men. The damage to the building is estimated between $lO,000 and $15,000.