Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1903 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Owing to the scarcity of boys in Kansas City, Mo., women are being largely employed us messengers. Three persons were injured in the collapse of a frame cottage at 1352 West Eighteenth street, Chicago. Louis M. Caulk and Dean Ephart of Boston, Kan., fought out an old grudge and Caulk was dangerously stabbed. The board of directors of the \gaociated Press elected Frank B. Noyes of the Chicago Record-Herald president. Omaha, Neb., officers discovered nearly 1,000 young children working in the packing house uud ordered them sent to school. Ed Christy, who was convicted of murder, committed suicide in the county jail at Wellington, Ivan., by hanging himself to the bars of his cell. Cyrus E. Gillespie, a successful inventor, drowned himself in a well near his home in Edwnrdeville, 111. No reason, except illness, js given for the deed. One robber was fatally wounded and another is believed to have been injured while attempting to rob the hardware store of Bronson & Griswold in Trinidad, Colo. Joseph Holdren, proprietor of the Bellevue Hotel at Marietta, Ohio, was Instantly killed by a heavy timber which fell through the elevator shaft from the | fourth story. I Edward Butler, political boss under sentence for bribery at St. Louis, Mo., declares that Joseph Folk, the district attorney who convicted him, should be elected Governor., A Chinaman was beaten to death by a mob at Tonopah, Nevada. Twelve white men visited Chinatown and at the point of revolvers ordered the Mongolians to leave the place. Negroes overpowered the sheriff at Luxotn, Ark., took out a negro named Heliem and hauged him to a water tank. Hellctu was charged with attacking two little negro girls, aged 5 and 10. j Amid great excitement the City Council of Toledo, Ohio, tabled the franchise ordinance vetoed by the Mayor granting a twenty-five years’ franchise to the Toledo Railway and Light Company. Prof. Fred C. Clarke of the Ohio State University committed suicide in Columbus by shooting himself in the forehead with a revolver. Prof. ’Clarke leaves a widow and two small children. A Vandalia freight train crashed into a Monon passenger train at the Crawfordsville, Ind., junction, overturning and demolishing two coaches. Of the ninety passengers several were seriously hurt. Mrs. John McMuado, formerly a school teacher iu Chicago, has been declared a leper. She went with her husband some time ago to San Jacinto, Cal., but always wore a veil in the presence of strangers. Commissioner Richardson of the general land office has decided to retain the local land office at (lass Lake, Minn., instead of removing it to Remidji. The decision has been approved by President Roosevelt. The body of Mrs. Gien D. Cheatham was found burned to a crisp at Aurora, 8. D. She haj) poured kerosene on her dpthes and set fire to them. Her mind

was unbalanced over the hurtling of an only child a year ago. According to a published rtory, J. D. Rockefeller contemplates expending between $30,000,000 and $80,000,000 in tha downtown part 6t Cleveland within the next few years in the erection of sixteen j skyscraper office buildings. A $30,000 fire occurred at the Missouri ! State fair grounds in Sedalia, three large frame horse barns and two beef cattle barns being destroyed. Iu addition ten , Missouri, Kansas and Texas freight cars, some of them partially loaded. Left penniless in his old age, after a loss of $05,000 in the June flood, discouraged nnd despondent, Henry Mockley, proprietor of the Riverside packing house in Kansas City, committed suicide by sending a bullet through Ills brain. Friends of Miss Ruth Bryan, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Bryan, following a party given in the young lady’s honor at Lincoln, Neb., announced the engagement of Miss Bryan and William H. Leavitt, an artist of Newport, R. I. Samuel Thompson, aged 88 year-, murdered bis son. Leroy Thompson, aged 51 years, and then killed himself at their home two miles south of Norwalk, Ohio. Two years ago the younger Thompson deserted his wife, which’* angered his father. The unusual occurrence of a “gastropod a I shower” is reported from several parts of the southern section of Crawford County, Ohio. During tho night millions of diminutive sunils felt and iu the morning the earth was slimy with the little-specimens of the gastropod. The Minnesota company that reinsured tho business of the Northwestern Life aud Savings of lowa dropped the tenyear gold bond of the latter and substituted a specific annual dividend policy. The insurance laws of Minnesota are strong and its companies conservative. The famous Senator Sherman back tax case was ended by compromise at Mnnsfield, Ohio. The tax authorities claimed $2<50,t)00, but by the compromise it was determined that $02,500 should be paid. The case has been in litigation many years nnd has attracted a great deal of attention. William Trimble was convicted in the Circuit Court at Evansville, Ind., of taking part in the riot of July 5 lost. The penalty for riotous is from two to ten years’ inipiifstinient in the penitentiary. Trimble first man to be convicted o£ rioting, and there are several more cases.

Graders on Sunset boulevard, just outside the city limits of Los Angeles, found a peck of spurious coin buried by counterfeiters. The coin apparently had been buried many years. There were five and ten-dollar pieces, and although corroded from contact with the damp earth, they were still good imitation?. Mrs. Williamson was murdered and her 12-year-old daughter aud her aged mother, Air?. H. H. Payne, brutally beaten near Lebanon, Kan. All had been horribly wounded with a Cultivator bar. A young man of Jackson, who wished to marry her and whom she'bad refused repeatedly, has disappeared. Harry Emmett, charged with safe blowing; James Massengill, who confessed to attempted criminal assault, and Bud Jones, charged with perjury, escaped from the county jail at Jeffersonville, Ind. The men cut a hole through the iron cage and dropped to the ground by mcaus of a rope made of bed clothing. W. W. Kelley of Gardner, Mass., brother of Manager Michael Kelley of the St. Paul American Association team, was fatally injured in a ball game between the Winnipeg Northern team and a club from Algona, lowa. Kelley was at bat when a ball thrown by Holland, the colored pitcher for Algona, struck him in the temple. Roy and Beech Berry, who were arrested in Colorado on the charge of cattle stealing from Frank Rockefeller's ranch, were discharged for lack of evidence nt their preliminary hearing in Atwood, Kan. The Berrys are the survivors of the Berry family, three members of which were recently killed by the Dewey ranchers in a pitched battle.

Tho house at 1606 McClure street, Marion, Ind., occupied by the Lucabel and Crabtree families, was partly destroyed by an explosion of natural gas. Mrs. Hattie Lucabel was terribly burned and probably fatally injured. Ora Crabtree, 6 years old, also was fatally burned. Mrs. William Crabtree, mother of the children, was burned in an effort to save them. The worst flood experienced iu that portion of the Mississippi valley for years has been submerging thousands of acres of farm lands along the river near La Crosse, Wis., sweeping away stacks of hay and grain, drowning live stock in fields nnd doing immense damage. The flood entered La Crosse and in the lower portion of the north side sixty families were forced to move out of their homes. A wholesale jail delivery was foiled nt the Sedalin, Mo., county jail. One of the prisoners called to Sheriff Dillard to bring a drink to his cejl, and as the sheriff opened the door to the bull pen he was felled by a blow from a club in the hands of a negro prisoner. The blow knocked him to his knees and stunned him, but lie managed to get on liis feet and otnggcr to the outer door, which he closed. Two bandits made a daring attempt to loot an express ear on the Michigan Central Railroad, $25,000 iu two safes being the booty fought. William Gaughran, 382 North Ashland avenue, who was mistaken for the messenger, but who is really a delivery expressman, was beaten into unconsciousness. That the bold plan, which embraced the dynamiting of the safes while the train should he speeding out of Chicago, failed was line to the fact that the thugs attacked the wrong man. The jury in the suit of Frederick Marriott, publisher of the San Francisco Nows Letter, against Truxtmi Beale and T. If. Williams, Jr., president of the California Jockey Club, returned a verdict against Williams for $16,780 damages. Beale and Williams called at She home of Marriott last year to obtain satisfaction for an article said to refer to Miss Marie Oge, now Mrs. Beale. There was a fight and Marriott was shot three times. He charged Williams with the shooting. The mutilated body of Mis« Olive Rayl, 22 years old, was found lying across the Lake Shore Railway track at the entrance of Gordon Park, Cleveland. It was at first supposed that Miss Rays had been killed by a train, but later tba police stated that an investigation devel-

—' oped that the girl had been murdered tad the body placed on the traelt, where a train cut It in two. Mise Rayl lived with her brother, Dr. W. L. Rayl. at Glenrflle, a auburb. Ska waa handsome and highly respected. : At Central City, Neb., Rev. R. A. ■ Gould, a Free Methodist preacher, who ! eloped with Eva Flint, a 15-year-old girl, last March, has been sentenced to six years in the penitentiary. He w*s tried under the kidnaping law, passed by the State Legislature after the Cudahy kidnaping in and hi* conviction was the first under that statute. He was captured jn North Dakota and taken to Nebraska under requisition from the Governor of that State. He had a wlfo and five children. Mrs. Charles Rollins bears on her right thumb a scar that tells of a close call she had in Battle Creek, Mich. She is a professional nurse, and has made her home there since leaving her husband, a Chicago barber, four years ago. Rollins wanted her to rejoin him, but she refused. He went to the home of Miss Annctta Blakely, where his wife—.was working as a nurse, and without a woird of warning tried to shoot her. Before he could fire she grabbed the revolver and the hammer came down on her thumb. Mrs. Mary E. Jahn and her 13-year-old daughter, Pearl, died in. St. Louis from burns caused by lighted gasoline, and Harry, the 10-year-old son of the woman, who turned on the explosive fluid in bis sleep, cannot live. The boy had been in the habit of helping his mother about the stove during the day. He was a somnambulist, and the other night he went through the operation of turning on and lighting the stove in his sleep. A fijre resulted that burned Mrs. Jahn and Pearl, who ran to the boy’s aid. . Charles *Peters and Judge Burson of Starke County, Ind., have engaged engineers to make a survey for a ship canal to connect Lake Michigan with the Wabash river. A number of surveys have been made since 1831, but with the making of this survey it is understood that nn effort will be made to interest the Indiana Legislature in the hope of securing an appropriation and enlisting capitalists in the project. It is said that such n canal would shorten the waterway from Lake Michigan to the Gulf of Mexico nearly 450 miles in comparison with the Chicago canal.