Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1903 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

“Lucky” Baldwiu has been elected Mayor of Arcadia, Cal. A. J. Powell, son of Robert Powell, a soldier of the war of 1812, shot and killed himself at the Planters’ Hotel, Mexico, Mo. The steamer Queen of the West sank in Lake Erie, eight miles off Fail-port, Ohio. The crew was rescued by a passing steamer. The plant of the Kentucky-Vermillion Mining and Concentrating Company at Vermillion, Mont., suffered a loss of $135,000 by fire. Gen. John C. Black of Illinois was elected commander-in-chief at the Grand Army encampment in San Francisco. Boston was chosen for the encampment in 1004. During a quarrel at Frankfort, lad., Harry Thomas of that city was killed by Harry Loveland. Loveland killed Thomas by striking him with his fist, breaking his neck. Incorporation articles have been filed at Guthrie, O. T., for a railway from Hudson’s Bay to Buenos Ayres, 10,000 miles long. The cost is estimated at $250,900,000. Mrs. Johanna Sclilceinger of St. Louis filed a suit for divon e against her husband, Adolph, in which she charges that during the past two years he has not spoken to her. W. J. Edwards of Plains, Ivan., was shot and killed during the uight. His sons, Dou and Boy, have surrendered, admitting that they did the shooting. No eause is known. , The Wallace paint works at Toledo, Ohio, burned. C. B. Wallace, proprietor, and J. B. Bartholomew and Minnie Leahy, employes, were severely injured. The loss is $30,000. Judge Raymond at Muskogee, I. T., has rendered a decision that the Creeks have a right to levy tribal taxes, an opinion opposite to that of Judge Clayton in the Choctaw ca*e. The Grand Army of the Republic, before adjournment in San Francbco. unanimously adopted a resolution praising the record of Lieut. Gen. Miles as a soldier, disciplinarian and organizer. Fifty passengera off a pleasure steamcr at Indianapolis were thrown into a panic by the explosion of a boiler and sinking of th* boat. A woman and a babe are believed to hare drowned. N. M. tiabele, fireman on the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad, fell from his engine naar Bolivar, Ohio, while crossing the Tuscarawas river. His head strode the bridge timbers, killing him in-

stantly, and the body dropped into the river. Robert McAllister, aged 13 yean, who, with his brother, waa visiting at the home of W. M. Watson. Hyde Park, Cincinnati, died as the result of a fractured skull, sustained by falling from an apple tree. Mrs. Lucy Van Her ekes, who recently lost her bustle, containing $7,300, near St. Paul, Minn., waa found dead at her home near Shawnee, Kan. Secreted about she bouse $1,575 ih gold was discovered. A boy was set adrift in Lake Michigan at Chicago by companions as a practical joke, and fix men who tried ho reacne him almost lost their lives. The lifesaving crew and a tug finally landed all in safety. Because the long ungratified mother’a instinct prompted her to steal another’s baby, Hazel Avery, the kidnaper of little Alice Furlong, was sentenced to the penitentiary for three years by Judge McEwen of Chicago. The fence about the Fort Belknap Indian reservation in Montana, which is forty miles wide and sixty miles long, has been finished. It probably is the longest fence in the world and has taken years in building. Two highwaymen who attempted to rob the St. Charles Hotel office in St. Louis, were put to flight by Clerk Dawson, with a revolver, one of them, giving the name of Joseph Wright, being probably mortally wounded. State Senator William P. Sullivan, accused of soliciting a bribe for three votes on the anti-alum hill, during the aession of the Legislature last winter, was found guilty by a jury at Jefferson City and his punishment fixed at SIOO fine. Great excitement prevails at Lugert and Lone Wolf in the Wichita mountains over the discovery of rich minerals at Devil’s Gap, twelve, miles south of Lone Wolf, O. T. It is reposted that valuable ore in large quantities was recently urn earthed. Grace and Sullivan, prisoners at Fort Wayne, near Detroit, induced Private St. John of Company F, First infantry, who was acting as their guard as they worked about the officers’ quarters, to throw down his rifle and belt and desert while they escaped. As a result of the spreading of rails on the Chicago A Northwestern line, three miles soutli of Fond du Lac, Wis., an entire passenger train was thrown down a 20-foot embankment. George W. Zuhle of Chicago was killed and many were badly injured. Fort Sne-lling soldiers are again deferring in large numbers, and an official investigation ns to the cause may be ordered, Immediately after the July pay day twenty-five men deserted from the post, and sinc.e then there has been nearly thirty more absent without leave. Miss Lena Dick, aged 20 years, was assassinated by an unknown person while sitting on the doorstep of her father’s house at Wilburton, 1. T., just prior to retiring. Without warning some person stuck a rifle through the door and fired, the bullet piercing the girl’s heart, death being immediate. An electric car jv«s held up at the west end of Adams street, Los Angeles, Cal., by two masked highwaymen and the mo-torm-an and conductor were robbed of their watches and money. One of the robbers kept tlie car men covered with a revolver while the other searched them, securing sl4 and two watches. A special excursion train on the Northern Pacific, en route to the Elks’ clam bake at Olympia, was wrecked between Chehalis and Centralis, Ore. The wreck occurred on a grade and is said to have been caused by the explosion of the engine's boilers. As far as known there are two killed and about thirty injured. Fred Cox, aged 14, and Edgar Driscoll, 17, prominently connected in Muncie, Ind., were arrested at Columbus, 0., charged with the robbery of the Wachtel department store in Muncie. The booty wag found in their possession. The boys made confessions and agreed to return for prosecution without requisition papers.

Marcy K. Brown, former prosecuting attorney and a prominent lawyer and Democratic politician in Kansas City, shot nnd seriously wounded Frank Hunter, a shipping clerk. Hunter attempted to force an entrance into Brown's house. He refused to stop when Brown fired twice as a warning and a third shot was fired with effect. The Democratic State convention in Nebraska reaffirmed the Kansas City platform. William J. Bryan was the dominating spirit of the convention. Judge John J. Sullivan was nominated for Supreme Judge, and the Populist candidates, W. O. Jones and E. O. Weber, were indorsed for regents of the State University. For the first time in five years the Piute and Digger Indians are holding a big powwow and dance in the lower part of the Yosemite valley, Cal. A big feast was held, pre:rided over by Uncle Paul and Mrs. Unde John, both of whom are over 100 years old. All were in full Indian evening dress. War dances and a “potlatch” followed. Andrew Adams, a waiter, committed suicide at Holy Cross hospital in Sail Lake. He evaded his nurse and went into a bathroom. He got into the tub nnd, placing his mouth over the faucet, turned the water ou full force. He clenched the faucet between his teeth and held on until unconscious. He died within a few minutes.

A cloudburst early this morning caused the Big Blue River to rise sixteen feet within a few hours, sending a great flood of w'ater down the bottoms along that stream. Many inhabitants in (the lowlands south of Marysville, Ivan., were driven from their homes and heavy damage to property was done. One death by drowning is reported. The International Harvester Company of Chicago has purchased the mining interests of the Deering Harvester Company on the Mesaba and Baraboo ranges of Minnesota for $3,500,000. The International Harvester corporation has determined to follow the example set by the Deering before It entered the combine of controlling the raw material. While the street# of Canton, Ohio, were crowded with shoppers a daring thief smashed the show window of W. A, Wortman’s Jewelry store in the heart of the city and grabbing a tray containing $2,000 worth of diamonds escaped before an alarm could be given. The thief cut his hands while reaching for the gems, but beyond this the police are without a clew. A fatal duel over a girl occurred on a ferryboat in Point Township, Ind., between Edward Robinson and Samuel

Lusk. Robinson stabbed Lusk over th« heart and then ctat hie throat, severing the jugular vein. Luak died in a abort time. Robinson gave himself up to the Kentucky officers. The girl over whom the fight occurred saw the tragedy and fainted. Southern Miami County and northern Fulton County, Indiana, were visited by remarkable hail storms and thousands of acres of growing corn was mined. What com was not blown down waa cut by the hailstones, some of which measured seven inches in circumference. Hail drift* wore reported at Walnut, and after the storm the fog was so dense that nothing could be seen fifty feet away. Some live stock wai killed in the vicinity of Miami