Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1903 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The Epworth League convention next year will meet in Denver. Baseball has been made a compulsory exercise for the Duluth police. The Chicago stock market continues weak in sympathy with conditions at New York. Horse traders resisted arrest at Eddyville, ‘lowa, and four persons were shot, one fatally. The Epworth League convention at Detroit was pronounced the greatest in the history of the organization. Olio-sixth of the business portion of San Luis Obispo, Cal., lias been burned out with a loss of over SIOO,OOO. The daughter of Maj. Gen. Young is engaged to Lieut. Hanney, now stationed at Fort Cook, near Omaha, Neb. Archbishop Katzer of the. Milwaukee diocese passed away at Fond du Lac, the end being paiule,is and without iucident. One man was killed and ninety persons injured, four probably fatally, in collision between electric cars near Oberlin, Ohio. MePhee & McGinnity’s paint, oil and glassware house at Denver Tntfned. The loss is estimated at $200,000, covered by insurance. A mob attacked the jail at Basin City* Wyo., and killed two murderers and deputy county clerk, who was acting as one of the guards. In Chicago fifteen warrants were sworn out by State Factory Inspector E. T. Davies against violators of the new child labor law.

The captain and fifteen sailors of the Marietto steamer I. Watson Stephenson had a desperate battle for life in a gale on Lake Michigan. The Colorado Legislature reconvened to pass a general appropriation bill, the one passed at the regular session having been declared illegal. Justice Brewer, in an address before the lowa Bar Association, indorsed the policy of the injunction, and said he would extend its scope. Matthias Zimmerman shot and killed his wife with a rifle at Mosher, Ark., then turned the gun on himself, sending a bullet through his heart. Dora Wright was banged at South MeAlester, I. T., for the murder of Annie Williams, a 7-year-old girl. She mounted the scaffold without a tremor. A plan to draw electricity from clouds by means of magnet and wires and store it for commercial purposes is to be tested on Pike's Peak by a Chicagoan. Edward Davis, for several years pastor of the Central Christian Church of Oakland. Cal., has forsakes the pulpit and entered upon a stage career. Bishop Fallows, in a sermon to Illi-

nois guardsmen In camp at Springfield, said trade unions make their greatest mistake in opposing National Guard. “Bill” Davia, known in the Indian Territory os a “bad man,” waa shot and killed by Cal Blanch, 17 old, who resented an attempt to drag him from hi* horse. Major Willard, in reporting on work on the Illinois and Mississippi canal, says that owing to high water and legal delays it is not likely to. ba finished fot~ three yenrs. Four persons lost their lives in a fire early the other morning which destroyed Bonner Springs sanitarium at Bonner Springs, Ivan., seventeen miles west of Kansas City. W. .T. Bryan, the principal speaker at the picnic of the Chicago Democratic (’lub, bitterly arraigned former President Cleveland for his policy while in the executive chair. John McGrath, superintendent of the Inland Steel and Forge Company at Indiana Harbor, absent-mindedly walked in front of a Baltimore and Ohio train and was instantly killed. Ex-Marshal James M. Rice of Lamar, Mo., was fatally shot by Bert Cochran. It is said the two men were rivals for the affections of n widow, and quarreled. Rice was a prominent politician. Joseph Clark, president of the Columbus City school board and ex-treasurer of Whitley County, Indiana, blew his head off with a rifle. 11l health and financial trouble was the cause. Attorney Clarence Darrow of Chicago was married Thursday to Miss Ruby llatnnierstrom of Galesburg, 111., at the residence of Mr. and Airs. Gregg, friends of the bride, at 5401 Indiana avenue. By the capsizing of a sailboat in the harbor at Everett, Wash., Miss Nina E. Solomon, a telephone operator; Miss Edna Warner, a school teacher, and P. G. Foster, an insurance man, were drowjted. Four months’ truce in Chicago’s traction war has been secured by the passage of two noncommittal measures by the Council. Union Traction lenders give a written promise that they will agniu take up negotiations. Alvin Lasswell, aged 17, is undoubtedly the youngest railway general passenger and ticket agent in the world. His home is at Campbell, AIo., and he has complete control of fifty miles of railway in Missouri and Arkansas.

Missouri Pacific’s Colorado limited was wrecked ten miles south of Kansas City aud ten persons were injured, three- seriously. The accident occurred on a straight track near the approach to a bridge and the cause is unknown. Maud Jordine, the Bloomington, 111., girl w'ho was accused of the murder of her 2 year-old sister, was discharged from custody by Justice Heineman aud J. P. Butler, the detective who made the charge, was hissed from the court room. James It. Angell, assistant professor of experimental psychology in the University of Chicago and a member of the faculty of t tie University of California summer school, has beeu compelled to give up work because of nervous prostration. A storm of rain and hail swept Chicago, the hailstones being of unusual size and wounding many persons, A man was killed by lightning and a girl was slain by a piano being blown over on her. Horses, frenzied by the icy fusillade, ran away aud injured several persons. Death in the electric chair awaits Alfred A. Ivuapp, the murderer of women, who was fouud guilty at Hamilton, Ohio, of killing one of bis wives, Hannah Goddard. The self-confessed slayer of at least five victims, all of whom he choked to death, accepted the verdict with indifference. The Ivnnsas State board of medical examiners revoked the license of Dr. Robert E. Gray of Garden City, tried on the charges of immorality, excessive use of drugs and unprofessionalism iu connection with the death of Miss Irma Brown a year ago in Chicago. The jury in the case of Julius Lehmann, former niember of the St. Louis house of delegates, charged with bribery in connection with the passage of the city lighting bill, returned • a verdict finding the defendant guilty. His puuishment was fixed at seven years in the penitentiary, the longest term yet iuflieted in any of the boodle cases. D. O. Mills, a director of the Ilarriinun railroad system and controlling owner of the Bellingham Bay and British Columbia Railroad, lias formally ordered an extension of the Bellingham Bay across the Cascade mountains to Spokane. It will there connect with the Oregon Railroad and Navigation line, now running from the main line at Huntington to Spokane, A new injunction, sweeping in character, was issued iu Chicago by Judge Holdom against the teamsters and truck drivers, as affecting the Kellogg plant, and Judge Brown instructed the grand jury to return indictments against riots era. Steps to procure pence have been taken by the National Business League and the names of a committee of arbitrators were submitted to the unious.

Seven Illinois towns were struck by a cyclone Friday evening, and a number of persons lost their lives, while scores more were injured, many of whom will die. Five were killed at Streator and nearly a score fatally injured. Four lost their lives at Meudota, while many were seriously hurt. A report was received also that eight persons were kilted by a cyclone at Verona, while further loss of life is reported at Ilansom, Pontiac and Ivernau.