Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1904 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Andrew Carnegie has given Park Rapids, Minn., a library under his usual conditions. Perry S. Heath has decided to erect a six-story hotel at his former home, Muncie, Ind. The plant of the Jonesboro (Ark.) binding works burned. Loss about $15,000, no insurance. Edward Stanhope of Indianapolis was shot and killed while sitting in his home by an unknown assassin. The Northern Pacific flyer ran into the caboose of a freight at Elk River, Minn., and Brakeman Knowles was burned to death. The GrinnelK building at Minneapolis was destroyed by fire. The loss was $04,000, principally to the Hauser Duck and Shade Company. Twenty-two persons were killed and thirty injured in a head-on collision on the Pere Marquette Road six miles east of Grand Rapids, Mich. Desperate bank robbers blew up the Kiowa Bank in Indian Territory and stole or destroyed $28,000 iu currency after a battle with citisens. Philip E. Barroughe, a grain commission merchant and formerly British vice consul at Kansns City, died there from blood poisouing, the result of a spider bite. Miss Annie Connell of Council Bluffs, formerly a sister in a convent at Omaha, has sued the convent for $30,000 because of loss of health resulting from alleged hard work. David V. Rieger, who was couvieted in Kansas City of misapplying certain credits of the Missouri National Bank of Kansas City. 6t which he was president, has been pardoned by President Roosevelt. John M. Glover, a former Congressman from Missouri, defied the military strike order in Cripple Creek. Colo., to surrender his arms nud was shot by soldiers, vho forced open his barricaded office. Got. Von Sant fixed Feb. 10 as the dale of the execution of Charles and Henry Nelson, the two brothers whose conviction of murder in the first degree was recently confirmed by the Supreme

Court. They were convicted of baring killed a saloonkeeper at Owatoona, Minn., last August Rather than submit to the mandate of their union, which calls for a strike, seventy out of eighty mflk wagon driven employed by the Union Dairy Company in St. Louis have thrown up their positions. Lah-Tn.Micro, the executive head of the Snake Indians, the most turbulent faction of (lie Creek Nation, has been killed by u limb falling from a tree. He will be succeeded by Chitto llurjo, second chief. Thomas Jones, said to be a prominent mining maa of Salt Lake, committed suicide at the St. James Hotel iu Denver by taking cyanide of potassium. He is said to have been despondent over financial affairs. In Brainerd, Minn., a jury found Mrs. Myra Jane Williams guilty of murder in the first degree. She was charged with murdering her 2-year-old duugliter Aug. 21 and afterward throwing the body into the Mississippi River. Jealous because his brother’s widow, Mrs. Florence Lee, intended to marry another man, Samuel W. Lee shot and killed her in Kansus City. Lee then fired two bullets into his own breast, and cut his throat with a knife. Mrs. Margaret F. Sullivan of Chicago is dead. She was one of the best known newspaper women in the country. Her genius forced President Carnot of France to set aside precedent and to grant her a place at the exposition of 1889. Two Italians, connected with a circus wintering in Topeka, Kan., have been catching the street dogs and feeding them to the lions. It is said that three dozen dogs have been devoured by the lions. The humane society will prosecute. In Joplin, Mo., Bert Barron, aged 17, shot nnd killed his father. Mat E. Barron, n miner, while protecting his mother from an assault. The elder Barron was intoxicated. Young Barron, who is under arrest, says the shooting was accidental. The finest business block in Marietta, Ohio, that of the First National Bank, wns destroyed by fire which started from a gas explosion. The five-story structure was occupied by the bank and a number of offices. The loss to the building is $75,000. John B. Cllngerman, chairman of the Republican State Central Committee, announced that at a conference with General Charles Dick and other party leaders it had been decided that the Ohio State convention would be held about the middle of next May. Commissioner Richards of the general laud office lias announced his awards under the sealed bids received for timber on the ceiled Chippewa Indian lands iu Minnesota in the vicinity of Cass Lake. The total amount covered by the accepted bids is $1,432,772. The Seri Indians, who occupy Tiburon island in the Gulf of California, have gone on the warpath, nnd, according to information received by the military authorities at Hermosillo, Mexico, the savages are raiding ranches and committing depredations on the mainland. A San Francisco paper says: “The organization known as the Pacific Coast Lumbermen's Association, which has controlled the export lumber trade of the entire Pacific coast, has gone to pieces. The disruption is attributed to a refusal of the California representatives to sign the yearly agreement.”