Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1903 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Fire and Wheatland, Cal. swept through the town and caused a loss of $200,000. William Rudolph, charged with murder and robbery, escaped from jail at StLouis by sliding ou.vu an electric light wire. Four men walking from Alma to I/cadvillo. Colo., were caught In n blizzard on the range and one of them had his face ' frozen. The si earner St. Paul, from Nome, reached Seattle with fifty-four pateengers and a quarter of a million dollars in treasure. It. P. Whippel, a balloonist, was perhaps fatally injured at Barnes, Kata., by a fall from a balloon. His parachute failed to open. Mabel Brown, aged 20, was found dead in her house iu Denver. Her hands were bound and there was evidence that she had been strangled. J. I-l Berry, a marine cook, whose home is on Sixty-third street, Chicago, was drowned while bathing at Toledo, Ohio. The body was recovered; The smelting plant of the Silver City Reduction Works Company, near Silvoj City, N. M., has been destroyed by fire. Loss $100,000; insurance $15,000. The village of Whitehovise, Ohio, experienced a disastrous conflagration. The loss totals about $32,800, and includes fifteen dwellings and business places. A. A. Hopkins, business agent of Chicago brass molders’ union, and William /Lynch were given three months’ jail sentence by Judge Holdom for violating an Injunction.

In the trial of Alfred A. Knapp at Hamilton, Ohio, his two sisters, Mrs. Martha Reiss and Mrs. Sadie Wenzell of Cincinnati, gave testimony tending to prove him insane. • Edward V. Sewali.' supposed to be a commercial traveler for a Chicago wire and steel firm, committed suicide by shooting himself at the Hotel Belvidere, Portland, Ore. He was despondent. Evansville, Ini, was terrorized by a mob that broke into jail to secure a negro and lynch him. Several negroes were killed in riots and a white boy is reported shot. Governor ordered out the militia. In Springfield, Ohio, Charles Fidler. who was married only five months ago to a beautiful young woman, bad a quarrel with hla bride. Immediately afterward

he took a revolver and blew oot bis brains. An armed mob charged the militia guarding the jail at seven were killed; twenty injured,,eome fatally. This is the bloody climax of four days of riotinfr. Judge Morris of Toledo sentenced Benjamin F. Landis to life imprisonment in the Ohio penitentiary without hope of pardon. Landis was convicted of the murder of Kathrine Sullivan. Three persons were killed and thirteen injured by explosion of paper cap compound in factory at 7545 South Chicago avenue, Chicago; three men. including one victim, are , charged by police with criminal carelessness. Fourteen furniture and wood working plants have beeu closed in Chicago on account of the strike of 1,500 craftsmen. Ten manufacturers, most of them small operators, signed the union tcule and their factories are running. Violence of rioters among striking trade unionists in Chicago is responsible for another murder. Thomas Mullen, an employe of the Illiuois Malleable Iron Company, died as a result of injuries received in a brutal assault.'^ A decision of the umpire at a ball game in Perr.vsville. Ohio, caused a riot in which 1.000 people took part. Before it was over a score of persons were more or less injured and a dozen arrests were made by the village officers. The Manitou House at Mauitou, Colo., a three-story stone and frame structure of ninety-five rooms capacity, was destroyed by fire. The hotel will be rebuilt. The building and furniture cost übout $75,000; insurance was $25,000. Snow was general in Montana Thursday, slight flurries being reported from all over, the State. The fall was heavy on the continental divide. The temperature dropped to 45. The snow alternated with cold rains. Great damage to crops is feared. Fifteen persons were injured in a collision between two street cars at the intersection of Olive street and Jefferson avenue. St. Louis. A. G. Killu. motorman bit the Olive street car. is not expected to recover. Both cars were filled with passengers. Kansas City. Ivan., the rendezvous for

tlie gamblers of the middle West, was the scene the other day of a raid by the police, when, more than 500 slot machines were turned to the wall and seven gambling houses closed. The poolrooms were not molested. Gov. Peabody of Colorado lias called an extra session of the Legislature to meet .fitly 20 for the purpose of passing a new general appropriation bill for the support of the State institutions. The bill as passed at the last session was declared illegal by the courts. While on its way from Austin, Minn., to I.n Crosse a passenger train on the St. Paul road was almost buried beneath a landslide near Ilokah. Minn., which the engineer saw coming in time to reverse his engine and prevent a ferrible wreck. The train was stalled for eight hours. Tiie main building of the Hammond packing plant at St. Joseph, Mo., was destroyed by lire.* The loss is estimated at $1,500,000. Three men, it i« said, lost their lives in the flames. One of them is reported to he Charles Miller, fire marshal at the plant. Two men were injured. Sixty-five loaded cars, the transfer house and a number of smaller buildings, the property of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, were destroyed hv tire at Chicago Junction, Ohio. The loss is estimated at $200,000. Three cars of powder were drawn from the transfer house before the fire reached them. J. B. Jones, a United States deputy marshal, was shot and killed near Big Heart, in the Osage Nation. I. T,, by outlaws. Particulars are meager. As deputy marshals have been chasing the Ben Cravens gang in that part of the territory, it is believed that Jones was killed in a fight of officers with the outlaws. 4 An attempt was made to blow tip the plant of the Colorado Springs Electric" Company with dynamite. One hundred and fifty sticks of dynamite, weighing ueVenty-five pounds, were heaped along the north end of the big building and a fuse was lighted. The explosion of. one stick scattered the others for 200 feet, saving the building and the lives of seventeen employes. John E. McGowan, one of the oldest and most widely known engineers on the Duluth division of the Northern Pacific, was kilkol by the overturning of his engine, which jumped the track at Pellwood. McGowan gained great renown during the Hinckley forest life. He was fireman on the train that Engineer James Root pulled through the blazing forest, thus saving over a hundred lives. While Hoot stood at the lever McGowan stood on the tender, constantly dashing water over the burning locomotive and its engineer.