Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1903 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The State normal regent* have made Hays City, Kan., it dry town after n stirring fight. First monument erected in Ohio in honor of William McKinley was unveiled at Toledo, Senator Fairbanks being the orator. Rev. Dr. J. D. Hammond, manager of the Western Methodist Book Concern, will be tried by a Methodist Episcopal Church at Pacific Grove, Cal. A distinct earthquake shock was felt at Boulder, Colo. It was felt also at Eldora, Wurd and other points in the vicinity. No damage was done. Tlie court at Helena, Mont., has declined to restrain Heinze from operating the Minnie Henly and other mines, as sought by Amalgamated interests. An Arkansas and Choctaw work train, consisting of an engine and fourteen fiat cars, went through a 25-foot trestle near Hugo, I. T. Four men were killed. Bitter feeling among union men at Indianapolis against D. M. Parry, president of the Manufacturers’ Association, resulted in the fatal stabbing of one employe. Morton Ellis, the author-tramp who has been living with hoboes for some time studying their habits, has been arrested in Missouri on a charge of vagrancy. Mrs. Ferrell and her 2-year-old boy were instantly killed in a storm that passed near Wichita, Kan. They sought ■heifer in a school house, which was demolished. Owing to a car famine in Kansas the grain dealers are piling wheat on the ground and covering it -with canvas. There are 20,000 bushels in one pile at Ilays City. Excessive moisture retards the maturity of crops hi the Mississippi and Missouri valleys and lake region. The drought in the Ohio valley and Southern States is reported as more serious. Grasshoppers have destroyed the crops of the Picuris Indians in Taos County, New Mexico, and the government will have to help thorn over the winter and supply them with seed grain next spring. Grasshoppers have destroyed the crops of thf Picuris Indiana in Taos County, New Mexico, nud the government will have to help the victims through the winter and supply them with seed graiu next spring. Jacob Curtis and John Toland, aged resident* of Springfield, Ohio, while on their way home from the country were •truck and Instantly killed at a grade crossing on the Pennsylvania Railway by a freight engine. Thirty passengers on an east-bound Great Northern train were injured in a wreck at Dasnel, Minn. An unknown man, etealing a ride on the truck of a day coach, wa* killed. The entire train went into the ditch. Charles F. Leland, president of the defunct Commercial Banking Company in Dulntb, was’ indicted by the grand jury ia the District Court on two counts for receiving deposits after knowing that the bank was insolvent. A special excursion train ou the Wisconsin division of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railroad went into a washout at Kemptou, Wis. Four passengers were killed and a number of others hart, nose seriously. In Columbus, Ohio, a fire which start- • *4 Id tb* Columbus Transfer Company’s

building resulted in a loos of f 75,000, as follows: Columbus Transfer Company, $50,000; C. C. A)ir Paper Company, $15,000; goods in storage, SIO,OOO. The Blackdom Townaite Company was incorporated at Santa Fe, N. M., vrith a capital stock of SIO,OOO. The purpose is to establish a colony of negroes from the Southern State* fn Chavez County, tlie name of the town to be Blackdom. The bank of Willoughby, Ohio, failed to open the other day and u notice of suspension was posted. It is estimated that the assets will amount to $250,000 and liabilities $200,000. The bank was a private concern owned by S. W. Smart. The first bear to be killed withiu tlie city limits of Duluth was shot near the State normal school in sth street by Dr. Peter Kraft. It was n fine black bear, weighing about 300 pounds. Last season fifteen or more bears were killed near Duluth. At Berne, Ind., the home of Fred Ifoher, editor of the Berne Witness, was almost entirely demolished by dynamite. The family was extricated from the ruins with slight injuries. Roller’s paper has been lending the opposition to licensed saloon*. A fire destroyed a section of the Southern Pacific Railway’s freight warehouse on Townsend street, San Francisco, and burned a score of freight cars. The cause of the fire is a mystery and the firemen are unable to explain the rapidity with which it spread. A 3-cent-fare ordinance was passed by the Cleveland City Council the other night, the first of its kind in the city. Mayor Johnson is said to be interested in the new line, which, according to the conditions of grant, must be in operation by April 1, 1904. W. W. P. McConnell, Minnesota dairy commissioner, has issued an order, effective Jan. 1 next, forbidding the use of aniline or coal tar colors for butter-mak-ing. This action is taken under the new State pure food lnw, it being held that such colors nre injurious. Patrolman Albert Selianeman was killoil in Seattle, Wash., by William S. Tlkmiuvs, one of three men who held up the Villiard bar. Thomas and n companion had been recognized by Sehaneliiun on his beat ns answering the description of the highwaymen. Samuel V. Hull, lately City Auditor of Hamilton. Ohio, member and clerk of the Board of Education and Deputy Recorder of Butler County, shot himself in a saloon and died in ten minutes. The only known reason is a run of hard luck on the races lately. He was 43 years old. Suffering for years from nervous troubles, for which she imagined there was no cure, Miss Isabel Clark, n member of the well-known Clark family of San Jose, Cal., and worth nearly $1,000,000 in her own right, committed suicide at Dr. McNutt’s hospital, San Francisco, by inhaling gas. A letter received nt Tulare, Cal., from George E. Ilale of Chicago, secretary of the commission on observntories, state* that a Carnegie observatory will be built on the top of Mount Whitney, the highest point in the United States. The building will be 103 by 30 feet, of granite and wood. According to announcements made by N. N. Letts of Chicago, who* for some time has been working to secure a combination of wholesale grocers in Ohio, all preliminary plans have been completed for the organization of a $10,000,000 company with a charter authorized under New Jersey laws. Burglars chloroformed the entire family of Chris Harnish, a farmer living near Dora, Ind. They ransacked the house, securing considerable money and jewelry. Miss Lulu Harnish is in a oerious condition and the other members of the family are suffering from the effects of the drug. The Park Bluff, a steamer acting as bowboat of the Glenmont, one of the Van Sunt Company’s boats, sprung a leak while coming up Lake Bt. Croix and sank near South Stillwater, Minn. Five men were asleep on the Park Bluff, but managed to escape, except James Ferguson of La Crosse, engineer of the boat., The explosion of a gasoline engine in the shops of Bradley Burr, manufacturer of wagons at 21-29 Campbell avenue, Chicago, caused a fire trap in which thirty men were put in peril, with the avenues of escape closed by fire nud smoke. Five were injured and the plant was nlmost completely destroyed. The loss was $20,000, not covered by insurance. After three days’ struggle with wind and wave on Lake Erie the leaking steamer John Duncan reached Ashtabula, Ohio. The vessel recently ran ashore at Harrisville, Mich., and was proceeding to Ashtabula for repairs. It was towing the schooner Aberdeen when overtaken by a northeast rtorm, nnd after dropping its consort had a hard fight to keep afloat. After .wandering around the globe for fifteen years, forgetting even his birthplace and the names of his parents, from whom he had been kidnaped, Marcus liechtmau, uow 22 years old, walked into the store of his father in Portland, Oregon, to look at a watch, nnd was recognized by the aged man. Young Hechtman wa* stolen by a wandering troupe of variety actors when 7 years old. The heaviest rain of recent years fell throughout the Northwest the other night. Thousands of acres of crops were ruined and serious damage was done to railroads In many places. Reports from other points show that the storm was general all over Minnesota, extended as far as Elroy, Wis.. and. to the routh, to Sioux City, lowa. In North Dakota and Montana there was a heavy fall of snow. A carload of powder exploded at Beaumont, Ivan., »t 9 o’clock the other night. A fireman was killed and an engineer fatally injured. Several others were hurt A carload of powder on the Santa Fe switch wa# run into in some manner by a train on the Winfield branch and an explosion resulted. It wa* beard for miles and the people in nearly all the towns In the county could see the flash of the powder. Valley Springs, thirteen miles east of Sioux Falls, 8. L>., wa f s the scene of a regular Jesse James raid between 2 and 3 o’clock Saturday ntorniug. Residents of the town were aroused by a series of nine explosion?. When they appeared on the street to ascertain the cause they discovered that the place was picketed by seven or eight armed men who drove them Srom the streets on pain of instant death if they attempted to interfere with the robber*. The Minnehaha County Bank woe the object of attack by the

desperadoes, who blew open the safe which stood outside the vault nnd secured between SB,OOO and SIO,OOO in gash. The vault was not molested. During the raid one of the pickets fired at a citizen, but owing to a shortage of firearms the residents were compelled to keep in the background until the robbers had completed their work and left town. William A. Hoffman, a young farm hand living near Maeystown, 111., called his father-in-law, Dr. William Brandt, to the door of his house the other night atul shot him to death with a Winchester repeating shotgun. Then he rode back to his home, told his wife that “he had killed the old hound, her father,” gave her $2, which he said he wanted \her to spend on the christening of their 4-weeks-old daughter Mary, kissed her and their four children and, rode into the woods. “There are two men I must kill before I kill myself,” he said to his wife before leaving. That entire section of Monroe County is terrorized, as the fugitive is regarded as desperate. It is not known who are the other two persons he intended to kill. It is supposed that Hoffman’s motive for killing his father-in-law was that the latter refused to increase his weekly allowance. Dr. Brandt wus wealthy and had been practically supporting his-son-in-law and family. He gave Hoffman a certain amount of spending money each week.