Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1903 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Children are dying of an epidemic of formaldehyde milk poisoning in Phoenix, Ariz. A company has been organized in Denver to mine radium iu Routt County, Colorado. David Nation, divorced husband of Mrs. Carrie Nation, was taken ill of stomach trouble at Medicine Lodge, Kan., and died. William T. Baker, ex-president of the Chicago Board of Trade, died at his summer home in Highland Park. His death was sudden. Daniel H. Ogden, a prominent business man of Ogden, Utah, was shot and killed while duck hunting. The wound was inflicted by a stray shot. In a drunken frenzy and for no reason Frank Sepitowski, a St. Louis grocer’s clerk, shot his wife, probably fatally, and then shot himself in the head, but will recover; Stephen P. Hearty, a member of the St. Ixiuis fire department, was shot am! killed by Riley C. Wallace, a carpenter, following an alterontion about the payment of rent. A street duel between two police officers and several negroes in St. Louis resulted in the probably fatal shooting of Patrolman Edward Rice and Sanniel Newby, a negro. While makiug some measurements in n trench twenty feet deep Superintendent of Public Works Robert L. Johnson and a negro workman were killed by a cavein at Columbus, Ohio. Five persons were killed and twenty buildings demolished by a tornado at Sheridan, Wis. Two men was* drowned in Green Lake, near Ripon, Wis. Great damage to property is reported. Miss Jean Durell, aft actress, was stricken with paralysis on the stage while giving au entertainment in Modesto, Cal. Her right side is paralysed. Miss Durell formerly lived in Chicago. A north-bound passenger train on the Frisco system and a south-bound freight collided head-on near Koshkonog, Mo. Three trainmen were killed, a fourth fatally hurt and a passenger was slightly injured. The Wyoming Supreme Court denied the motion of Tom Horn, the stock detective, convicted of the murder of little Willie Nickell in the Iron Mountain country, and resenttfneed him to be hanged Nov. 2a Twelve persons were drowned by the capsfising of the steamer Hackley in Green Bay duriqg a furious gale. Seven survivors were picked up by a passing boat 1 after tossing all night on a bit of wreckage. O. T. Dyer, of Chisago, and salesman for the Shack Floral Company of that city, was found dead in bed at 718 Market street,. St. Louis. A bottle that had contained carbolic acid told the story of his death. “I have just finished a tour of tho Kansas core belt,” said Gov. Bailey at Topeka, Kan., “and I feel safe in saying to the country that the corn yield this year will reach 190,000,000 buahels. There will be 50000,000 bushels more than the grain man are figuring on.”

Got. Bailey is one of the most extensive farmers of Kansas. . __ Mrs. Vet Borden, Mrs. Hurd, her daughter, and two daughters of Mrs. Borden were drowned in the Narrows, Long Lake, near Brainerd, Minn. They attempted to ford the stream, although advised not to. While running at full speed in response to an alarm of fire a track containing six firemen collided with a swiftly moving street car at Ninth and Carr rtreets, St. Louis, and all the firemen were hurt, one probably fatally. The quick work of Engineer Daniel Flynn in applying the air brakes before running into an open switch saved the New York and Boston limited train of the 6ig Four Railroad from a probable bad wreck at St. Louis. • George Warner, aged 10 years, a eon of George Warner, now in the Louisville, Ky.. jail on a charge of murdering Pulaski Leeds, a Louisville A Nashville railroad official, died in Logans port, Ind., of grief over his father’s crime. The 5-year-old son of Fred Wagoner is dead at Neligh, Neb., as the result of an attempt made by two of his playmates to make him eat sand. They dislocated hie neck and a quantity of sand was found in the boy’s stomach. St. Charles, ~Minn., was rased by a tornado, seven persons killed and twentyeight injured. Other deaths from the storm are reported throughout the State. At Independence, Wij., two persons were killed and three fatally injured. Mrs. Minnie Brown-PWllips-Hairis-Cummings, convicted of the murder of her last husband, Dennis Cummings, was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment by Judge Douglas in St. Louis. The usual motion for a new trial was overruled. Tom Horn, the notorious cattle rustler awaiting death for murder at Cheyenne, Wyo., will be his own executioner. The sheriff has let a contract for the building of a scaffold which will be self-operating, similnr to that formerly used In Colorado.

A slight shock of earthquake was felt in Carondelet, the southern part of St. Louis. The disturbance lasted about a minute and caused alarm among the cit|zens. At the same time a slight shock was felt in the western portion of the city. Donald Cameron, wife and two babies were struck on the Big Four crossing in Springfield^)!)io, by a belated passenger train. ThP older child was killed outright and the father and younger child died an hour later. The mother Js seriously hurt. Count D’Agrenaff of Russia, a tramp in Europe, a soldier in the Philippines, who lost 330,000 on the Buffalo race track and who claims to have shaved President Mclxinley just before the assassination, is in jail at Omaha, Neb., on a cliargo of forgery. Albert M. Wetter, proprietor of the Massillon Sand and Stone Company, president of the Mnesillon Steel Sand Company, and director of the State Bank of Massillon, Ohio, shot himself through the heart while in his office at the bank. No cause is assigned for the act. Merida, Mexico, has been swept by a 32,000,000 fire. It raged all day, wiping out a street on which are located many of the principal business houses. The guests of the Bazaar Hotel barely escaped with their lives. American insurance companies will be heavy losers. William Fitzpatrick of Chicago is SB,000 richer through the death of an eccentric old uncle, John Fitzpatrick, whose will on being opened in Fremont, was found to bequeath that amount to his nephew. The old man was supposed to be penniless until the 'Will was read. Ed. McCollum, a negro, was taken from the county jail in Sheridan, Ark., by a masked mob. tied to a tree in the court house yard and shot to death. The negro shot and seriously wounded Constable Crutchfield of Davis County while the officer was attempting to arrest him. At Oxford, Ohio, a deputy sheriff stood off a mob as it was lynching Louis Spivey nnd cut the strangling victim from a tree to which he had been strung. The marshal of Oxford, in attempting to arrest n drunken man, precipitated a riot in which five men were wounded, four fatally.

A fence is being constructed entirely around the Lower Brule reservation. It will be sixty-three miles in length, composed of four wires, placed oa posts set a rod apart, cedar and ash posts alternating. In its construction 252 miles of wire will be used. The work is being done entirely by Indians. Sheriff Gilbert was warned by wire by President Moyer, of the Western Federation of Miners of a plot to blow up the four big mills at Colorado City treating Cripple Creek ore. Officials of the miners and millmen’g union confirm the alleged plot, but the details are withheld. The mills arc valued at $2,000,000. R. C. Vernon, a well-kpown politician and a wealthy real estate holder of Madison, Wis.. attempted suicide at the home of his brother in Kansas City, cutting his throat with a razor. At tho hospital it is said he may recover. Mr. Vernon is said to have suffered from melancholia, due to financial troubles. In St. Louis the committee on territorail limits of the presbyteries of the Northern Presbyterian Church settled the negro question in that denomination. By their action the 15,000 negro members of the church will not be set apart as a separate denomination, and the word “negro” will not be used as a qualification of any of the church laws or regulations. „ . A telegram from Naeo, Ariz., says J. W. Dooley, a ranch owner, was beaten and robbed by highwaymen, and those who committed the deed carried the victim to the railroad trite'*?, where they left him unconscious, expecting him to be killed and his remains ft be so mutilated aa to conceal the crime. Dooley was struck by a train and dragged a hundred feet,, but escaped death. “I do find that the deceased, Elizabeth Brenneaian, came to her death from hemorrhage caused by cutting her throat with suicidal intent, caused by despondency, the result of gossip.” Such was the unusual finding of Coroner Lepper of Tiffin, Ohio, sitting in the case of Elizabeth Brenneman, who ended her life Sept. 10, after learning of the evil reports about her circulated by neighbors. Unable to gain an audience of hie sweetheart, who had retired, Tony Saproinski climbed her father’s porch in Toledo and raised an alarm of fire. When the family cams rushing out he seized the opportunity to propose marriage to pretty Victoria Koainaki and was ac-

cepted. After tha bans were called the first time Victoria began to consider how •he had been dnped, and now refuses to marry Tony. A cloudburst did unestimable damage at Pratt, Kan., to property and sent the Nineseah, an ordinary stream, over a mile in width in a brief time. At least three inches of rain fell within the hour and the Santa Fe Railroad tracks were a foot under water. Lumber for the Eggleston elevator, piled on the ground, was washed away and the city water pumps were under six feet of water. No lives are reported lost. An eight weeks’ drought was broken. _ In a Southwest gale on Lake Superior the schooner Pretoria broke away from the steamer Sultana off Cooper Hart>or. The Pretoria was drifting across Lake Superior when she was sighted by the steamers Boyce and GrsJwick and towed to an anchorage under Manitou Island. There she was found by the Snltana with her sails blown away, her anchor and anchor chains gone, her wheel chains parted and her windlass broken. The Sultana succeeded in bringing the disabled ship to Sauß Ste. Marie, Mich.