Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1903 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The National Municipal League will hold its next annual meeting in Chicago in April, 1004. The Farmers and Merchants’ Bank in Le Setieur, Minn., closed its doors. The liabilities nre $50,000. E. H. Hnrrimnn has bought a onethird interest in the Huntington electric lines along the Pacific coast. At Kansas City, Mo., five persons were injured, two seriously, in a collision between a trolley ear and a wagon. Police Captain Boyd of St. Louis has resigned pending a hearing on the charge of complicity in naturalization frauds. ' John Withevil, a student of St. Louis ■ University, has been paralyzed by an injury received in a practice game of football. The Burton State Bank nt Burton, Kan., was dynamited and robbed and thousands of dollars are* said to have been taken. Six persons were injured in a wreck bn a North Clark street cable car, in Chicago, caused by the grip running into an open vault. Fourteen hundred sausage-makers at the Union Stock Yards in Chicago struck for an increase in wages, tying up several plants aud crippling others. After a desperate struggle with the rolibers of the Superior postofflee six Ishpeming, Mich., policemen wounded and captured two of the trio on a train. Alderman WHiinm Johnson, socialist member of the Chicago City Council, struck his mother and drove her from home after ten years of quarreling over , his beliefs. Chauncey Dewey, the Chicago millionaire ranchman, his son and foremen, are under arrest in Kansas on indictments charging them with fencing government , land for pasture. Following n conference of Indiana Democrats at Indianapolis relative to the reorganization of the Sentinel, it was decided to ask the court to appoint a reI ceiver for the paper. The quantity of raisins received by the association at Fresno, Cal., up to Oct 17 has been footed up and shows 54,000,000 pounds. At the corresponding date last year the receipts were 42,000,000. | Fire ia Omaha destroyed the fourstory brick building occupied by Kirsch, Brans & Son and Robert Purvis, produce commission merchants. The loss is estimated at between sltlo,ooo and $125,000. | Five candidates are now in the field I for the Republican nomination for Governor of Indiana, with indications that J. F. Hanly, of Lafayette, and W. L. Taylor, of Indianapolis, have the best start. As he was about to strike his wifs with an iron bar Nicholas ' Rolls .was shot and fatally wounded by his stepson, Henry Walscheid, 18 years eld. The

tragedy occurred at the Holla home In Chicago. Rofle died. The mill and mine owner* and Operators of the Galena-Joplin district have consummated plans for a total shutdown of the mines and milia to fore* the price of ore above the prices now offered by the smelting combine. Burglars gained fin entrance to the storeroom of the Deutsch Jewelry Company, 223 Enelid avenue, Cleveland, and stole diamonds of the value of $6,000. The police have not been able thus tar to find any trace of the burglars. James T. Roberts, testifying before the grand Jury in St. Louis, charged Lawrence Blair, son of the late Gen. Frank Blair, nnd recently general counsel of the world’s fair, with illegal transactions which netted him large sums. The work of building a new ship canal was formally started at Indiana Harbor, Ind., Saturday, when Governor Durbin touched an electric button which set the dredge in motion. The Governor, Senator Fairbanks nnd others made speeches. The Minneapolis Cold Storage Company has filed a petition in bankruptcy and John Kuns has been appointed receiver. The total liabilities may reach $400,000, while the assets are about $260,000. It will probably be reorganized. The Bank of the Chickasaw Nation at Tishomingo, the designated depository of the Chickasaw Nation, failed to open its doors Monday morniug. A conference of the officers and stockholders waa held and it was decided to apply for a receiver. The Chicago Lake Street Elevated Railroad Company passed into the hands of a receiver on the petition of two stockholders, who declnred the corporation insolvent. Judge Tuthill appointed the Equitable Trust Company to take charge. Charles L, Conine, national, secretary and treasurucr, was convicted at Kansas City of embezzling $5,676 from the United Brotherhood of Leather Workers and Harness and Horse Goods Makers, and sentenced to two and one-half years in the penitentiary. Aylesworth’s drug store at Fredericksburg, Ohio, was blown to pieces with dynamite. It was at first thought that the deed was committed by burglars, but later information is to the effect that the act is the result of bad feeling over approaching local option election.

The dead bodies of Albert Jensen, aged 30 years, and Josie Johnson, aged 10, were found in Jensen’s house on his farm near the village of Beseau, Minn. It was evident that Jensen had killed the girl, who was his sweetheart, with the butt of a revolver, aud then shot himself. The entire business portion of Redwood Falls, Minn., was in danger of destruction by fire ns the result of a blaze which destroyed the Hotel Francois. The guests of the hotel escaped in their night clothes and lost all their personal belongings. Some barely escaped with their lives. The marriage of William Morris Stewart, United States Senator from Nevada w nnd Mrs. Mary Agnes Cone, nt Atlanta, Gn., was a surprise, not only to the friends of the Senator, but to the members of his family as well. Senator Stewart is 70 years of age. Hia bride is 40 years old. Crazed with the knowledge that she had deserted him for another man, Claude H. Arbuckle, formerly a floor walker in n dry goods house, fired two shots at Gladys Grey, formerly a variety actress at Nome, in a room at the Hotel Cecil, nt Seattle, Wash., aud then blew out his brains. The woman will die. Edward Grogger, a building contractor, shot nnd killed John Nash, a carpenter, aged 38, firing from behind in a quarrel in the southern limits of Kansas City. Relatives and neighbors of Nash made an attempt to tnob Grogger and the latter was saved from violence by the police. Both men have families. The trial of Joseph Stout, a young farmer charged with assaulting Prince Yee, son of the Emperor of Corea, came up for hearing in Common Pleas Court nt Delaware, Ohio. Stout pleaded guilty. Sentence was reserved. Stout's excuse for the Rssnult was that he did not like the young prince's popularity among the American girls. In an affidavit filed in Logansport, I ltd., Harriet Bittner charges that her brother, Isaac Stover, killed her husband, Edward Bittner, with a rock March i), 1878, and that since that time he has been a fugitive from justice. Recently she declares lie returned to the vicinity and so abused their aged father that the old man died. The general merchandise store of W. F. Kattmnn & Co.,Dr. Chambers’ drug store, two vacant store rooms adjoining on the west, the K. of P. building and an undertaking establishment owned by Edward Tressel nt Poland, Ind., were destroyed by tire, causing a loss of s4p,000. The loss of Kattman & Co. is $35,000. The fire was of incendiary origin. Superintendent Gerof of the State employment bureau will try to solve the servant girl problem for Kansas. He will proceed to secure the names of girls who work for a pittance in the big Chicago stores and prove to them by correspondence that they can do much better as dottestics in Kansas. He says hundreds of these young women would win farmers for husbands. Robert Forbes, a wealthy citizen of Carboodale, Kan., has found that a supposed gold brick purchased by him three weeks ago in Topeka for $5,000 is composition metal worth probably 50 cents. A fakir induced him to believe that he was a long lost nepiiew, a mine owner of New Mexico. A confederate, posing ns a chemist, helped carry out the deception. The pair have disappeared. Two bandits entered the oflta of the Philip Coal Company, Fifteenth and State streets, Chicago, and robbed Bertram Philip, junior member of the firm. They secured S4O and a gold watch from their victim and at the point of revolvers forced him to open the safe. Nothing was secured from the safe as the day’s receipts had been taken from it and deposited in l a bank. Then. locking Philip in h<* office, the robbers disappeared.