Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1903 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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James Keffer, murderer of William Warren, an aged stock tender, was hanged in the jail yard nt Lander, Wyo. James Keffer, who murdered A. C. Wnrreu, keeper of a stage station at Derby, Wyo., was hanged at Landen, Wyo. One person was burned to death and five injured in a tire which destroyed the private sanitarium of Dr. B. B. Ralph in Kansas City. Reports from Kansas show that the women hnve won in the school districts and now control a majority of the hoards throughout the State. John Doyle, 35 years old, whose home was in Chicago, was so badly injured in the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad yards at Sandusky, Ohio, that he died. Henry D; Lloyd of Chicago is dead. He was a devoted student of economic questions, an advocate of a referendum, and a friend of the laboring masses. “Sam” Parks finally bolted the bridgemakers’ convention at Kansas City, the Buchanan men adjourned without date and the association seems ' almost disrupted. v In Denver, Colo., J. A. Johnson, an engineer on tRe Union Pacific, placed his sweetheart's picture on the headlight of his engine. She has now sued him for damage*. Robbers entered the Merchants’ Exchange Bank at Downing, Mo., blew open the vault door with dynamite, but were frightened away without securing any booty. Dr. Charles Gardiner, one of the most prominent physicians in Kansas, died at Emporia while performing an operation, and his death nearly caused the patient to bleed to death. The Wickham & Chapman piano plate plant was burned in Springfield, Ohio. Thi fire started from a gas explosion in a drying kiln. The loss is SIOO,OOO and the insurance $43,000. One man killed and sixteen injured was the result of the collapse of a building erected by the William Grace Company at Twenty-second street and Fortyeighth avenue, Chicago. J. B. McMillan, n conductor on the Katy road, was killed at Caddo, I. T„ by a gang of tramps whom he was attempting to put off the train. His home was in Dennison, Texas. Frank Siegel, former president of the Slegei-Sander* Live Stock Commission Company of Kansas City, Mo., was acquitted of the charge' of embezzling money belonging to that firm! A head-on freight collision on the Klondike coal branch line of the Cleveland and Pittsburg road east of New Philadelphia, Ohio, resulted in the death ..• ■ - .

of two men and tbe fatal injury of two others. A gigantic federation of employers has been formed in Chicago, embracing the manufacturers of the United States, whose purpose is to protect independent workmen and maintaiu open shops. United States Senator Stone has sued Judge CYisman of the County Court at Kansas City, Mo., for SIO,OOO for maliciously deceiving Stone when he put his money in a Kansas City newspaper. A. Stephenson, Milton George, D. M. Knoll, H. Champlin, M. M. Mayfield and L. Simpsoh, lumber dealers of Hobart, Okia., have been arrested, charged with forming a trust or pool to fix the price of lumber. Orlando Northup and Mrs. Delilah Eversail, aged 75 and 68 years respectively, eluded the vigilance of their children and went from Prospect to Marion, Ohio, and were married by a justice of the peace. In Terre Haute, Ind., Miss Grace Stover and Fred Woerner outwitted friends wbo expected to kidnap the groom after the wedding announced for a certain night by having the ceremony performed the previous evening. Rev. Truman F. Allen, pastor of the Thirteenth Avenue Methodist Church in Minneapolis, was stricken with apoplexy just as he finished what he thought might he his last sermon to the congregation. In three hours he was dead. George M. Collier, chief State inspector of engineers of Ohio, was suspended from his office by Gov. Nash and the Attorney General ordered to bring suit to recover $2,716 on his bond, that being the amount of his alleged shortage. Taxpayers of St. Joseph, Mich., are astounded by the report of expert accountants, who say large sums of money are missing and the municipal books are in wretched condition. Former city officials will lie asked for an explanation. Coniniissfoner Richards of the general land office lias napied Nov. 10 next, at 9 a. m., as the date of the opening to settlement of the 750.000 acres of ceded Chippewa lands in Minnesota, recently segregated from the timber land of that reservation. Five persons were injured, one critically, by jumping from windows to escape death from fire in a building on East Ninth street, Cincinnati. Four of the injured were imprisoned by the flames in the fourth story, and jumped from the windows. Bankruptcy proceedings have been begun in Detroit against the Barry Transportation Company, the petition stating the company is not solvent. The proceedings mark the end of the competition started last spring in lake traffic from Detroit to Cleveland. Willis Allen, aged 28 years, son of the late Judge Allen of Illinois, was found dead at Hematite, Mo. The verdict of the coroner’s jury was that he came to his death from an overdose of some kind of narcotic, administered either by himself or somebody else. Snator Hanna and party, en route to Sandusky, were severely shaken up by the electric car leaving the track near Berlin Heights, Ohio. Although the glass in the car was shattered, only a few slight bruises were sustained by a few members of the party. L. S. Backus of Harvard, Neb., a veteran horseman, fell dead on the fair grounds track at Clay Center, Neb. He had a horse entered in a trotting race, ami was preparing to drive it when he was stricken with apoplexy and expired in a few minutes. He was 01 years old. Another attempt has been made by dynamiters to wreck a Northern Pacific train.' One or two sticks of dynamite were placed on the rail at Sampson Siding, Mont., and.were exploded by the engine of a west-bound freight. The track was badly damaged, but no one was injured.

The grand jury returned two indictments against George H. and P. N. Ford, bankers, of Burton, Ohio, who several months ago failed, with liabilities aggregating $1,125,000. The Fords are charged with obtaining property under false pretenses in accepting deposits after they knew the bank was insolvent. A. B. Brownlee shot his wife at their residence in Youngstown, Ohio, and then sent a bullet through his brain, falling dead beside the lifeless body of his wife. Insanity from ill health is assigned as the cause of the murder and suicide. There is one son, 16 years old. Brownlee was GO yeai-3 old and his wife 55. Thirty leading architects from New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Chicago have entered the competition for the building of the $60,000 Carnegie library at Colorado Springs, Colo. The structure will be peculiarly designed to take advantage of the unusual scenery of the Rockies and the perpetual sunshine. • Judge Lindsey of the District Court at Denver has made a ruling that a railroad ticket has no intrinsic value, but that the sole value consists in the transportation it represents, thus sustaining the Burlington road in offering to put a man on the train who held a rickei which it was suspected he was about to sell. Two Rockford, 111., residents, Frank P. Kessler, a switchman, and Alexander Cope, a newsboy, have Identified Emil Waltz, who is held on the charge of killing little Alphonse Wilmes in Detroit, as the man whom they had seen near Rockford a short time before the discovery of the mutilated body of a little newsboy in that city. At the Confederate reunion in Columbia, Mo., a motion was made to adopt other words in the place of those which have for forty years been sung to the tune of “Dixie.” Almost a riot ensued. A stormy discussion was interrupted by the rebel yell, which settled matters, for the motion was at once defeated by unanimous vote.

Lives of many firemen were endangered in a fire destroyed the greater part of the Standard varnish works, 2020-2040 Armour avenue. Ghicago. The fire was started by an explosion and the fiames fed on the varnish so rapidly that In a short time the firemen were unabie to stop the sweep of the fire. The lossis placed nt $200,000. The grand jury of Lorain County. Ohio, which has been investigating the Reichlin murder case for several days past, completed its labors and reported no indictment. This is "taken to mean that notwithstanding the large number of witnesses examined nothing really definite as to who killed Agatha Reichlin was brought out. The Roman Catholics of Denver diocese are greatly excited over a statement furnished the press by Father Callanan

of the Catholic Cathedral that lie had. lost over $52,000 of church funds in speculation. The money was infested in cheap mining shocks and worthless oil prospects in tbe hope of doubling the fund rsi&ed for the construction of a cathedral. While suffering from temporary insanity Miss Adelaide Pribbenow, a music teacher, whose parents live in Omaha, threw herself out of a third-story window of a fashionable hotel in Kansas City, escaped comparatively uninjured, ran ten blocks to the railroad yards in the north end of the city, threw herself in front of a patoing traiu and was ground to shreds.