Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1903 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The American Flint Glass Workers’ Association will make its headquarters in Toledo, Ohio. The first killing frost of this fall fell in Clay County, Kan., the other night Corn was out of danger. The body of Henry Dixon of Cincinnati, Ohio, who has been missing for several days, was found in the river near Louisville. Dr. Greth of San Francisco made a successful test of a dirigible airship, sailing for an hour over the city and guiding his machine at will. Charles Collard, postmaster at Kiowa, L T., was convicted of the murder of Gip Railey, a traveling man, and sentenced to life imprisonment. William Cnrthew, alleged to have embezzled SIOO,OOO from a New York bank and squandered it on a woman, has been recognised in California and arrested. H. S. Canfield, n well-known writer and newspaper man, committed suicide at the West Chicago Sanitarium in Chicago by cutting his throat with a razor. As a result of a dispute over a mining location William Miller shot and killed George Simmons, a wealthy mine owner of Newark, N. J., at San Bcrnurdino, Cal. Oil has been struck in a well bored eight miles northwest if Pueblo, Colo. It is reported that oil stands übont thirty feet deep in the well and is steadily increasing. Mrs. Kate Lonergan, who, with her 2-year-old son, was lost on the prairie in a snowstorm near Denver, has been found dead in an irrigating ditch into which she had fallen.

Six persons were severely injured in a collision between a Fifty-first street electric car and a Wallace street and Center avenue electric car at Fifty-first street and Center avenue, Chicago. John Nelson, nged 14 years, was fatally injured by being kicked on the head in a football game in St. Paul. His sknil was fractured and the attending physicians say he cannot live. The City Hall of Cheboygan, Mich., was destroyed by fire. Loss $50,000, insurance $25,000. It was one of the finest municipal buildings in upper Michigan. The cause of the fire is unknown. William Alien White, author of "What’s the Matter with Kansas?” and a newspaper and magazine writer, will bo selected as dean of the department of journalism of the Kansas University. Albert E. Bell, who has confessed numerous mail robberies, has recovered sufficiently to be taken from the hospital at Denver, where he has been confined, and will be taken to Philadelphia for trial. The members of the Nebraska State Baukers’ Association voted almost unanimously in favor of tbe repeal of the present bankruptcy law end a resolution asking the Senators,,-and Congressmen from that State to work to that end was adopted.

Gordon Allen, 82 years old, a wellknown mining operator, was shot and killed by Benjamin Ayior of Webb City, at the Ayior mine near Prosperity, Mo. There had long beeu ill will between the men. Hog cholera is devastating the southeast portion of Shawnee and across the line in Douglas County, Kansas. The farmers along the valley of the Wakarnusa lost over 1,000 animals In two weeks. Dairymen and bakers of St. Louis are forming a combine with a capital stock of $5,500,000 to purchase the smaller concerns, deliver bread and milk from the same wagon and thus reduce operating expenses. John Williams, a negro arrested in St. Louis on suspicion of being implicated in the murder of Mrs. Kate Lauman, committed suicide in his cell in the Clayton jail because he fearfed he was going to be lynched. James Murray, the Toronto horse tamer and breaker, received possibly fatal injuries nt the Kansas City horse show. His horse failed to clear a fence in the exhibition of hunters, and Mr. Murray was thrown.

By dressing a 1,200-pound steer in three minutes and thirty-eight seconds Jacob Baer, employed in a Denver packing plant, has reduced the world’s record by twenty seconds, and incidentally won the western championship. Alfred A. Buck, assistant cashier of the State Bank at Mapleton, Minn., who has disappeared, leaving a shortage of $30,000, left a letter saying he had been systematically blackmailed for twelve years by a Chicago family. The spreading of rails caused a freight wreck on the Missouri Pacific near Langley, Kan., in which four persons were killed and six others injured. Two of the latter will be crippled for life. The men were harvest hands. \Yliile alone in his room in the Quivre Hunting and Fishing Clubhouse, in St. Charles County, Missouri, Isaac W. Morton, a member of the St. Louis City Council, committed suicide by shooting. No cause is known for the act. Endangering the lives of thousands of passengers and causing a panic, the Southern Pncific ferry steamer Newark crashed into the ferry steamer Oakland in the middle of San Francisco bay during a dense fog. No lives were lost. One of the concluding acts of the Union Veteran Legion, which held its annual meeting in Dayton. Ohio, was the adoption of a resolution bitterly denouncing the plnn of placing a statuq of General Robert E. Lee in the hall of fame. A strike has beeu declared by the messengers of the Pacific Express Company, and the employes in St. Louis, Wichita, Knn.; Kansas City and points in Arkansas and Texas went out for more wages. About 2,000 men are affected in the Southwest. All five leaders of the Fort Leavenenworth prison mutiny in November, 1901, charged with killing Guard Waldrupe, were found guilty of murder by a jury in the United States Circuit Court in Leavenworth, Kan., and will be given life sentences.

A suit was filed by E. A. Ivamerer, a Cleveland merchant tailor, against the Journeymen Tailors’ Uniou, No. 162, and also a number of individual members of the organization for SIO,OOO damages as a result of the strike of the journeymen tailors in that city. Tiie strike of 300 freight handlers which has been on in Khnsas City since June, has been declared off by President Dobson of the local union, who says: “It is useless to prolong a hopeless struggle.” Men were imported to fill most of tbe places of strikers. Bishop Arnett of Wilberforce, Ohio, presiding over the African Methodist Episcopal Church conference, announced that Kev. H. J. Williams, formerly of Duquesne, Pa., had been dropped from the conference roll because he had permitted a cake walk in his church. The steamer South Portland, from Portland, Ore., for San Francisco, during a blinding fog, ran onto Cape Blanco reef and was completely wrecked. She had on board fourteen passengers and a crew of twenty-two men, besides the captain. Fourteen persons are missing.

Fire which started in the Mack Building at Aberdeen, Wash., wiped out the principal business street of the city and caused a loss of over $1,000,000. Four persons are known to have lost their lives. Altogether 150 buildings, including forty business houses, were destroyed. The body of Miss Annie Hargas, aged 20 years,- who disappeared a week ago from the home of her sister, Mrs. Katherine Nagge, was found floating in the Compton Hill reservoir, St. Louis, from whence the city gets its water supply. There were no marks of violence on the body. Six sticks of giant powder were found on the Northern Pacific tracks near Birdseye, eight miles west of Helena, Mont. A very heavy freight train passed ever the dynamite without exploding it. George Hammond was arrested half a mile from where the explosive was found. In Ainsworth, Neb., Fred M. Hans, a railroad detective, was convicted of murder in the second degree, the jury having been out seven hours. Hans shot and killed David O. Luse April 9, 1901, for resisting arrest on a warrant charging him with killing a horse belonging to a neighbor. For two hours the other morning Newburg, Ore., was under control of a gang of bandits whose object was to blow up the building of the Bank of Newbnrg and plunder the vault. Though several charges of dynamite were exploded, the steel vault failed to give way and the bandits departed. John McCarthy, aged 60, applied per sonally to the Probate Court at St. Paul to be committed to the Rochester insane asylum. He felt that unless he was* incarcerated he would murder his family. He was once a millionaire contractor, but lost heavily on real estate. His request will be granted. With, no excuse to offer other than that they had spent the night quarreling, Charles H. Weiffenbach, at 5 o’clock the other morning, choked his wife to death In bed with his hands in Dayton, Ohio. He then tried to sleep, but hnlf an hour later arose and prepared and ate hia his breakfast. Later he went to the tobacco warehouse where he is employed as foreman and gave instructions for the -day’s work. Then he went to police headquarters, told the story of his crime and was locked up.

Six masked men robbed the Farnam* Neb., State Bank, securing $4,000. On* of the men was arrested. Dynamite was used, and the safe and the bank furniture were wrecked. The safe in the State Bank at Hubbard, Neb., waa blown open. The robbers secured sl,100 and escaped on a handcaj. The loss if covered by insurance. The Bank of Spring Grove, Minn., was robbed by safe crackers. Nine hundred dollars in silver from the outer safe was taken. Fire supposed to have been of incendiary origin destroyed five business blocks and the railroad station, besides damaging several other buildinfs at Galveston, lud. The loss is estimated at $75,000. The telegraph operator at the station reported the fire nnd asked for lieln while the station was burning. He wu» driven away by the flames and the wires were burned, cutting off all communication. The fire departments at Logansport and Kokomo loaded apparatus on relief train* and sent it to Galveston. At 8 o’clock the fire was under control. The Bank of Viborg, S. D., was robbed the other night of $5,000. The robbers were seen by citizens who did not care to venture on the street, which was pal rolled by armed robbers. Half of the money stolen was in gold. The robbers escaped on a handcar. Robbers cracked •he safe in the Linn GrOve, lowa, postoffice the Same night and secured $2,500 in money and stamps. The robbers escaped. An attempt was made to rob the Citizens’ National Bauk in Woonsocket, S. D. Four strangers arrived in the evening, one’ of them offered the city marshal S2OO if he would get off the street and keep quiet,, saying they intended to rob the bank, then steal a horse, drive to Washington Springs, and rob the bank there. The officer arrested the four men.