Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1903 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

An earthquake lasting thirty seconds ■wan felt in San Francisco. Indianripolis has been flooded with a circulnr calling upon white people to subordinate negroes to themselves. Farmers in the counties of northern Indiana are establishing an association, tile object of which is to tight the automobile. A clock with a dial 120 feet in diameter, to be covered with flower*, is being built at Milwaukee for the St. Louis exposition. W. F. Street, town site man and politician, was accidentally shot and killed at Bemidji, Minn., by Louis Bland, aged 15 years. A cloudburst has flooded the lowlands and valleys from a point near Lindsborg, northwest of Ellsworth, Kan., doing much damage. In a head-end collision on the Santa Fe line near Xunda, Cal., four men were killed and Engineer Ireland and Fireman Meachnm injured. Mrs. Jeannetta White died in Wichita. Kan., at the age of 130 years. She had a family Bible which gives the date of her birth as Jan. 10, 1707, not far from Louisville. The fire at Hobart, one of the new towns in the Kiowa-Comanche reservation. destroyed four blocks df business buildings. The loss is estimated at $ 100,000. The suit brought by the State of Minnesota against the Northern Securities Company was dismissed by Judge Lochreu. who held there had been no violation of the State laws. Walter Vail, a bank president at Michigan City, Ind., wrote to Pension Commissioner Ware asking him to cancel his pension papers, as his service In the Civil War did not merit a pension. . D. W. Ward, a merchant of Bailagh, Neb., and his family were poisoned by e»t jpg sardines. Mr. Ward and two

I children are dead nnd a third child la ' dying. Mrs.‘Ward will recover. Prominent hop grower* of the Pacific Northwest are endeavoring to secure unity of action among producer®, with the object of controlling this Season's production and forcing tip price*. Jerome Grosli, n member of the wholesale millinery firm of J. V. Clemen & Co. of Toledo, was drowned at Put-in-Bay ns the result of the eaiwlzing of a sailboat occupied by hiqiself and Mis* Alice Sturgis. Mathew Donncr of St. Louis, while in a fit of anger attempted to broil his wife on a red-hot stove. He was badly beaten over the head with a poker by his stepson, Henry Hoffmeistcr, who came to his mother’s assistance. Two persons were killed, five are missing and eighty were injured by the collapse of one span of a bridge over the Willamette river at Portland, Ore., which was packed with people watching a onearmed man swimming. Jenioiisy over Miss Sadie Guilbert caused W. G. Wray, a traveling salesman of Pittsburg, Pa., to shoot fatally William Farris in Cochran’s saloon at McConnellsville, Ohio. Wray was arrested and lodged in jail. A passenger train on the Peoria Eastern division of the Big Four ran into a freight trnin at Laura, Ohio, killing Conductor Devlin of Indianapolis and probably fatally injuring the engineer, fireman and baggageman. Leroy It. Mnsterson, a foreman at the Pueblo, Colo., steel works, was murdered while asleep. Suspicion rests on members of a gang of laborers of whom Masterson had charge and sixteen of thenx have been arrested for the crime. The south-bound Norfolk and Western passenger train No. 8 was wrecked at East Portsmouth, Ohio, by the rails spreading. The engine left the track and turned over. Twenty-five persons were hurt. Seven were fatally injured. Twenty-two cars of galvanized corrugated sheet steel were shipped from Canton, Ohio, for use in the Philippines in constructing barracks for the troops, it having been found that a large ant there destroys wooden buildings iu a few years. lteiwrts of frosts have been received Park River, Langdon, Cristal, Manvel and other points in the northern part of North Dakota, but at none of them was any damage done. Minnesota points also reported a light frost, but no damage.

Heavy rains in nearly every county in the Kansas corn belt have been hailed with rejoicing among the farmers. The drought of the past few weeks had threatened the corn crops, but the heavy downpour insures the success of the crops. An attempt was made by unknown parties to blow up the Northern Pacific bridge crossing the Yellowstone river near Livingston, Mont., and wreck the east-bound passenger train. A large hole was made in the central pier of the bridge. A hqmb was discovered on the railway tracks of the Eads bridge at St. Louis by a track walker. It is said to have been tilled with a powerful explosive. One theory advanced is that it was placed where found with tlie intention of wrecking the bridge. A 2-year-old child of Lee Montgomery, an Osage, I. T., farmer, was killed by a Plymouth Bock rooster. The child was throwing sticks and pebbles at the bird, when it suddenly flew at its childish tormentor and drove its spurs deep into the child’s head, neck and back, Frank Talbert, a stock buyer from Wabash, Ind., was taken from a box car at Air Line Junction, Toledo, and beaten into insensibility. Having no money or valuables, be was removed to the county infirmary. He is supposed to have, been assaulted and robbed by tramps. The noted female character, “Calamity Jane,” who lias figured on the frontier since 1870, died at Terry, eight miles from Dendwood. S. D. She had requested that she be buried in Mount Moriah cemetery at Dendwood beside “Wild Bill” Hickok, who was murdered. Harry Ifiley, an ex-convict who was released from the Salem, Ore., penitentiary the other day, beat Elliott' Parklmrst and forced Mrs. Parkhurst, daughter of J. T. Janes, formerly warden of the Salem penitentiary and a niece of ex<governor T. T. Geer, to run away with him. There has been a plan adopted by the territorial board of education *of Oklahoma to teach statehood matters in the public schools. A book has been published setting forth the reasons why Oklahoma should be admitted and a copy will be placed in the hands of every pupil in the territory. While Oscar Erickson ’ and Perry Schurmer, both of Crookston, Minn., were at work installing new water wheels at the Crookston water works and power house, the planking upon which stood gave way and Erickson was caught iu the cogs of one of the wheels and ground ’to pieces. - The body of Mrs. Anna Collier of McHenry County, N. D., who was supposed to have been drowned abont three weeks ago, was exhiimed by the authorities, who believe she was murdered and thrown into Moure river. She had been married only three months. It is expected several arrests will be made.

Judge Kavanagh of Chicago denounces violence and intimidation by labor pickets, nnd threatens severe punishment of the offenders if brought before him. He says, however, that pickets muy use peaceable arguments with workmen, and favors jury trials in cases of alleged violations of injunctions by strikers. Twenty-five years in prison was the punishment imposed upon John Wiltrax by a jury in Judge Kersten’s court in Chicago for the murder of Paul Paskowski, (1 years old, whose dead body, with a bullet through the brain, was found buried in the woods near Hansen Park April 27. Elizabeth Wiltrax, his wife, was given her freedom. A posse of armed citizens in Bartholomew County, Indiana, pursued William Garrett, a negro, and chased him into Flat Ruck River,' where he was drowned. Garrett had been acting strangely and started out to do damage. He ran abont brandithing a razor, threatening to kill every person he met. A party of citizens drove him out. of town.

At Cridersville, Ohio, George Slein, a middle-aged farmer, shot lfis wife, inflicting injuries from which she afterward died, and then committed suicide by shooting himself in Ac head. Jealousy on the part of the husband earned a separation some time since, hut a partial reconciliation had been effected, and the cause of the tragedy is not known. Sixteen persons, the majority of them -

from Chicago and Logansport, Ind., were seriously injured and several of them probably fatally, wh,en the New York express on the panhandle road ran into a west-bourn! freight train at Hartford City. A broken draw-bar had delayed the freight six minutes and it was standing on the main track when the express ran into it. In a fight William Deerwester, a carpenter, 45 years old, was shot to death by Clark Huffman, proprietor of the Star Hotel at Seven Mile, near Hamilton, Ohio. Huffman was arrested. He claims that because he refused to sell Deerwester beer the latter assaulted him with a billiard ■cue and that he fired in selfdfenso. Witnesses say Huffman began the assault. ' Henry Stutz was shot through the heart in Columbus, Ohio, by Nicholas Foreman and died instantly. Foreman was engaged in a controversy in a saloon on the outskirts of the city and was flourishing a revolver when Stutz stepped up and asked what he was doing with the weapon. Foremau replied that he carried the revolver for his own protection, and, leveling it at Stutz, fired. Foreman escaped.