Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1903 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The United States Supreme Court affirmed the constitutionality of the Kansas eight-hour law. The grand jury at St. Louis lias returned two indictments against Major Deuuis of get-rich-quick fume. The capture of two men suspected of robbing the bauk nt Agra, Kail., was effected by the citizens of Bloomington, Neb., after a lively fight. Francis J. McCarthy, a 15-year-old electrician of Sau Francisco, has invented a wireless telephone by which he has already transmitted messages u distance of four mijes. Thirteen persons were injured in a collision between an Ogden avenue and a Sangamon streetcar, in Chicago. Many pnsseugers were thrown from the platforms and one may die. Thirty-five hundred iron workers in tlie Calumet district, near Chicago, are made idle by strikes or shutdowns. Tha International Harvester Company plans •till further retrenchment.! Rev. William E. Hinshaw has been released on parole from the Indiana northern prison, where he had been serving a life sentence for the murder of his wife in 1895 at Belleville, Hendricks County. As the result of a sensational divorce auit pending in the Lawton, Okla., courts for several months Musey L. Vaughn was shot and fatally wounded by his father-in-law, William Ridley of Duncan, I. T. The Pnrtßche - Cantieny - Hanestein block in Lima, Ohio, was burned, entailing a loss of $50,000, divided among several occupants. A number of persons living in the upper rooms were carried down ladders by the firemen. Zion City’s industries and all of Jolia Alexander Dowie’s holdings passed under tbs control of Fred M. Blount and A. D. Currier, who were appointed by Judge Kohlsaal. of ths Federal Court,

la Chicago, as receiver* In bankruptcy. Claims of more than $70,000 are pending in court against Dowie, but ha says ha can pay all his creditors and have $25,000,000 left j Alderman John J. Brennan and two co-defendants have been found guilty of election frauds in the Eighteenth Ward, in Chicago. Under the verdict punishment may be a Jail sentence or a fine, or both, at the discretion of the court. A record-breaking initiation ceremony took place in Convention Hall, Kansas City, in that nearly 2,000 men took their first degree ns Knights of Pythias at one time. Of these 1,000 were from Kansas City nnd the others from neighboring towns. The Cireuit Court at Hamilton, Ohio, has granted the motion for a stay of execution of the sentence of death passed upon Alfred A. Knapp for the murder of his wife. The execution was set for Dec. 11, and a stay has been granted for thirty days. The annual report of Gov. Otero of New Mexico makes a plea for the admission of the territory to stntchoocL The report says that during'tlie pnst year the building of railroads continued with unabated vigor and capital made extensive investments. l’eter Niedermeier, Harvey Vjm Dine and Emil Roeski pleaded not guilty when urruigned before Judge Kersten in Chicago on murder indictments. Gustav Marx pleaded guilty and was the only one to show that he realizes the peril in his situation. H. S. Storrs, at present general superintendent of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad, will Jan. 1 become general manager of the Michigan Central Railroad. It cannot be ascertained who will succeed Mr. Storrs on the Lake Shore. Alexander Garnett, who fatally shot Major J. W. McClurg at San Francisco, was booked for murder. Garnett says the shoouug was accidental. Mrs. Lillie 11. Coit, in whose apartments at the Palace Hotel the tragedy occurred, is seriously ill from heart failure. The greater part of the south side of Hall City, Kan., was destroyed by fire, causing a loss that will exceed SIOO,OOO. Among the losers are the Farmers and Merchants’ Bank, the Alliance store, C. A. Webster’s hardware store, the Masonic Hall and the Corder dry goods store.

Prairie fires are raging in the western part of Caddo County, Okla., south of the Washita River. Many homes are reported to have been burned between Fort Cobb and Anadarko. The fire swept a path from five to six miles wide, destroying everything, though so far bo lives are reported lost. Mrs. Mnry Sickles has sued the City of Enterprise, Kan., for SIO,OOO damages for tlie murder of her son, Clark Sickles, by Horace Plaisted, now iu the penitentiary. She alleges that Plaisted was drunk at the time and the city was responsible, as its officers had allowed the joints to run. During n farewell meeting for the Rt. Rev. J. J. Harty, recently appointed archbishop of Manila, at St. Leo’s Church in St. Louis, a section of the church floor sank into the cellar and over a score of persons went down. The floor sagged slowly and finally rested on the furnace. No one was injured. An attempt was made to blow up the home of Robert A. Valnet at Globevflle, Colo. He was a machinist at the Globe smelter who refused to quit work when ordered by the union. A large charge of dynamite was exploded under the front of the building. Considerable damage was done, but no oue was hurt. William 11. Myers was arrested in Hamilton, Ohio, and held in SI,OOO bail on a charge of embezzling $751 from Court Butler, No. 1380, Independent Order of Foresters, of which he was until recently financial secretary. Myers issued a statement saying that he holds receipts for every cent he has paid out. Cell No. 425 in the big federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan., has been vacated. Oberlin M. Carter, ex-captain of .engineers, U. S. A., has puid the penalty for frauds in connection with the Savannah harbor work. Buoyant in spirits and still confident of his ultimate acquittal in the eyes of tlie people of felony, Curter started alone for Chicago. Frank J. Spencer, foreman of the elevator works for the Younglove-Bogges Company of Mason City, lowa, is missing. He had over $5(X> of the company’s money in his possession, and whether he has decamped or was foully dealt with greatly concerns his friends. He was superintending the construction of an elevator at Bombay, Minn., and was last seen at Zumbrota. Judge James A. Howe of tlie District Court iu lies Moines held that a decree granted under the Dakota divorce statutes is null and void if it is proved that tlie litigant resides there merely for the purpose of getting a divorce. The decision was rendered in the Fagan case, wherein a widow sued to recover her dower rights and was resisted on the ground that her husband had divorced her prior to his death. Harvey Van Dine and Peter Niederineier, companions of Gustav Marx in the Chicago cur barn murders, and Emil Roeski, associated with the trio in other crimes, were captured in Lake County, Indiana, after the most desperate man hunt in the history of Chicago. The outlaws mortally wounded Policeman Driscoll, wounded Detective Zimmer and a brakeman, and killed a second brakeman before being captured. Each of the outlaws was wounded. The authorities at Pulaski are still seeking to clear up the causes which led to the deaths of Jacob Miller, Frank Miller and John Johns, the father of Kate Miller. Jacob Miller some time ago made a will bequeathing his portion of certain farm land to his brother's children, and Mrs. Kate Miller had done likewise for her children, and this has given rise to rumors of foul play, but may not go far, as Jacob’s brother, Frank Miller, is among the victims. The theory of accidental poisouiug is the one given the most credence, as the Millers wera Roman Catholics, and on Friday hnd eaten from a can of mixed vinegar, mustard and sardines. Three of the Miller children rejected the sardines on account of a bitter taste. An examination of the can and contents shows the inside of the can to be rust eaten and tiny small, white, hard pointed specks similar to fine sand were found. The sardines appear to have been decayed before they were pat into the box. Greater than in any year in which records been kept have been the f&utt-

ties resultant from the open deer haatfaW season for 1003. The statistics of other yean reveal, it is true, a larger number of deaths In some yean, bat particular care waa taken this year to includ# only those who met their deaths as a result of deer hunting. In addition several were either killed or wounded during the pe-. riod from Nov. 10 to 30 while huntlijp rabbits or other game besides deer. These, however, were excluded from the 1003 list. The casualties are summed up as follows: 1903. 1902. Number of dead..... 13 10 Number of wounded 20 16 Totals 83 20 The new Michigan law, making the hunter punishable by imprisonment for killing a man, seems to have had the opposite effect from that intended, as nimrods are said to have taken to their heels several times to avoid prosecution, instead of staying to succor men wounded. It is probable that several fatalities will be reported later from wounds received during the open season.