Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1903 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Indianapolis and Columbus, Ohio, are now united by electric line. Two Missouri Pacific passenger traincollided near Sedalia, Mo., injuring six passengers. Several slight earthquake shocks were felt at various points in Utah early Thursday morning. Six thousand Chicago hotel workers have been granted an increase in wages and better working conditions. Jcremia-h Sullivan of Chicago, 65 years old. has ridden 700 miles from Chicago to Batavia, X. V., on a bicycle. Eire supposed to be of incendiary origin destroyed three business blocks at Pocahontas, lowa, causing a loss ot $15,000. Dr. Charles W. Littlefield of Alexandria, Ind., is said to have created life in the form of animate atoms from simple chemicals. Three men who were stealing a ride were seriously injured and one of them ■may die as the result of a train wreck at Moxou, Mont. The pleasure boat Wisconsin, with fifty passengers aboard,.sank at Stevens Point, in the Wisconsin river, but all were rescued. George Collins, who was convicted at Union, Mo., of having murdered Detective Schumacher, was Sentenced to be banged oa Aug. 28. An explosion of natural gas in the rear of Cordell’s saloon, 177 North High street, Columbus. Ohio, killed two women and injured a dozen men. Mrs. George W. Stover, Omaha, who was bitten by a pet dog about four weeks ago, has died of hydrophobia. A number of others were also bitten. D. Orrin Steinberger, an artist, is living in the tops of n white oak tree, sev-enty-five feet from the ground at his home near Springfield, Ohio. Chicago teamsters have withdrawn from the fight ngninst the Kellogg Switchboard and Supply Company at the' request of nine trades involved. Four were killed and twenty-five or thirty injnred in a collision between the Twin City limited on the Chicago Great Western and a fast freight train. Henry F. Kruee, a prominent business man of Lafayette, lud., was drowned in the Wabash river after heroically rescuing his daughter and the sou of a friend. Hundreds of college men, lured to Kansas by the hope of profitable employment in the harvest fields, fail to find work, and are stranded and looked upon as tramps. Col. Ernst, government engineer, ex-

plains the loss of tonnage to Chicago as due to the tunnels aud other obstructions iu the river, aud snys it will continue unless they rtre removed. The machinist# dt the Calumet terminal shops at East Chicago are on stride, the officials refusing to sign the wage scale. The men are getting 31 cents ini hour and want 30. . , A collision occurred on the Navarre division of the Canton-Akron electric line, in which three persons were injured. A New Philadelphia car cbllldcd with a work car near Navarre, Ohio. Robert J. Burdette, in first sermon as pastor of Los Angeles, Cal.. Baptist Church, declared prosperity is in tiie air, hut Mo os and Joseph once were as rich as Morgan and Schwab are now. Extremely hot weather prevailed throughout Nebraska and western lowa, the maximum in Omaha being 118. The humidity was great. At Schuyler, Neb., one death, that of Robert Barnoe, wau caused by the heat. An extraordinary service was held nt St. Joseph Catholic Church in Oklahoma City, where high mass wae said by Father Albert, the first full-blood Indian ever consecrated in the Catholic Church in America or in the world. In Tacoma, Wash., fire destroyed the Cascade Cereal Company’s plant and the Doming-Berry Pulley plant adjoining, causing a loss of $150,000. The Denver House and the St. Paul House and sev-• eraj residences were damaged. Lightning practically destroyed the $20,000 Floyd monument nt Sioux City, lowa, erected to the memory of Sergt. Charles Floyd, member of the Lewis and Clark expedition. It was intended to send the monument to the St. Louis exposition. A Norfolk and Western switch engine collided with a passenger train iu the Pennsylvania yards at Columbus, Ohio. The passenger train carried a Columbus camping party bound for Mount Vernon. The two injured women were members of this party. The Rock Island system, through the medium of the St. Louis and Sail Francisco Railroad, has acquired the coutrol of the Evansville and Terre Haute and its sub .idiary lines by taking over the holdings of the syndicate headed by Edward S. Ilooley. The Colorado General Assembly adjourned at 1 o'clock Sunday morning after having passed a general appropriation bill, for which the session was called. The House defeated the Senate joint resolution calling upon the world’s fair board to disband. In St. Louis Judge Ryan sentenced five former members of the. house of delegates, four of whom had been convicted of bribery and one of perjury in connection with municipal franchise deals. They were given prison sentences ranging from four to six years. George Schuler of Cincinnati, Ohio, was mysteriously killed at a fishing camp on the Big Miami river near Lawreneeburg, lud. The body of the unfortunate man was found beneath the ruins of a tent which was blown down during a fearful windstorm. The large stock barn of Lon Young, near Crawfordsville, lud., was destroyed by fire, together with eight head of valuable horses, three buggies, farming implements and hay, entailing a loss of $20,000. The fire wan caused by spontaneous combustion. Thirteen persons were injured, one probably fatally, in a collision on the Compton Heights and Fourth street lines of the ML Dm is Transit Company. One of the motormen, supposed to be It. E. Matthews, was among the injured, but he ran away after the accident. Dora Cox, an alleged horse thief, has boon recaptured and pliiced iu jail at Watouga, Ok,, after successfully eluding the officers since 1898, when she escaped from the county jail at Kingfisher. The woman was for several years a member of a gang-of territory outlaws. Archbishop Alarcon has appointed the first lionrd of directors of the new Catholic hank at the City of Mexico. The board includes several capitalists of the clerical party. The bank has an Arizona charter. Lawrence Boyly Sheerer, an American dentist, is the founder of the institution.

Mrs. Anna Bailey and Mrs. Mary Woods were shot from nrubush a mile from Lake City, Colo. Mr?. Bailey is mortally wounded and Mrs. Woods is in a serious condition. The assassin, who was concealed among rocks on the mountain side, fired a charge of buckshot at the women ns they drove past. Rev. Wil!\pm Van Ituren, pastor, of the Methodist Church at Palmyra, Xeb., was knocked down and beaten by some unknown men while he was returning from the sanctuary. The assault is supposed to have he<‘n the result of his activity as a member of the town board ill closing business houses on Sunday. Eighteen or twenty prisoners made a break at Folsom, Cal., taking with them Warden Wilkinson, his grandson, Harry Wilkinson, Captain Murphy of the guard and two other officers. Guard Cotton was mortally stabbed by one of the prisoners. .The prisoners took a number of rities front the prison armory before they left. Playing on top of a tile kiln at Carey, Ohio, Marie Livingston jumped off andstruck a bed coals heaped from another kiln. The child was barefooted and the flesh on her logs was cooked to tlie bone and up to her knees. She attempted K> run, but was overcome and fell into the. coals, burning her bunds and arms. The body of J. W. McAnerny, a wealthy land owner near McPherson, Kan., with the throat cut from ear to ear and other evidences of violence marking it, was found in an old well near his home. George McAnerny, a son. was arrested on suspicion. McAnerny had been on bad terms with his wife and son for some time. ... 1 Mrs. Wilhelmina Grace Harrington’ was granted a divorce at Kansas City from “laird" Frederick Seymour Barrington, who is now under indictment at St. Louis, charged with murder. The decree restores to Mrs. Barrington her maiden name, Cochrane. She married Barrington in St. Loihs, believing his representations that he was an English lord. While fitting ia a dentist's chair find haring teeth extracted, Mrs. Nora Blue of Juniata, Neb., died ill Hastings frpm the effects of chloroform. Before the drug was administered to alleviate the pain Mrs. Blue was examined and pronounced able to take the necessary quantity. After fourteeu teeth had been taken oat she revived, sat up in the chair, spoke to the dentist and then sank back and died.

Benjamin Reverman of Cincinnati, employed a* a laborer by the Merchant*’ Heat and Light Company at Indianapolis, and William R. Naming, pipe foreman for the company, were asphyxiated by catholic acid gas in a manhole- The foreman lost hie life iu attempting to save the life of his fellow workmen. Climatic conditions this season have placed the farmer in a most peculiar situation. In" every direction he is foundwork on three different eeops, each of which is demanding—immediate attention. Ou every hand farmers are plowing their coca, while in the adjoining field a neighbor is harvesting the big hay c-rop, and another neighbor is harvesting early oats. This situation is due to the lute, wet spring. Two passenger steamers, both carrying big crowds of Sunday excursionists, drifted helplessly on Lake Michigan all night through disabled machinery. Both were towed into port the next day. Their passengers were badly scared and shaken up, but no serious results have so far appeared. The steamers were: Alice Stafford, Muskegon to Chicago, towed back to Muskegon; Mary, Chicago to Michigan City, towed to Chicago.

Minnril L. Ilaulenbeok returned to Dos Moines to see his aged mother, but she had died two weeks before his arrival. He !was pardoned from the Colorado State prison July 8, Paul Miller Cook, whom lie was found guilty of having murdered in 1885, having been found to be alive. lie was imprisoned in 1885 and served seventeen years for a crime which he did not commit, and was pardoned too late to see his mother.