Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1898 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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William T. Ryle, the Paterson, N. J., ■ilk manufacturer, died at Cape May. The Arena, New York’s free silver magazine, has been forced by lack of support to suspend. / Richatd Malcolm Johnston, the lecturer and novelist, died in Baltimore, after an illnegs of several months. Marquis Roberto Asnaridi San Marzano, brother of the Italian minister of war, is dead at New York. Acting Governor Foster W. Voorhees has been nominated for Governor by the Republicans.of New Jersey. Harvey Petzinger of Tarentum, Pa., shot his wife three times and then killed himself. Mrs. Petzinger may recover. Davis’ livery stable at Gloucester, Mass., was burned, thirty-five horses perishing in the flames. The loss is $28,000. David Yninst, aged 60 years, salesman for the whisky house of Kalbach & Co„ Richland, Pa., blew out his brains in Baltimore.

At Philadelphia, Sutherland Law, the champion cricket player, committed suicide by leaping from the fourth story of the Colonnade Hotel, John McLean Hazen, son of the late General William B. Hazen, U. S. A., who was thrown frohi his horse while riding iu Staten Island, is dead. A man registered as M. Putze on the steamer La Gascogne, from Havre for New York, was found dead in his cabin, having committed suicide by hanging. • At Manchester, Conn., fire destroyed the bakery of Frank Goetz. John I beetles and a man known as “Rob,” German bakers, about 30 years bid, were burned to death. John Hazen. aged 21, was thrown from his horse near Tompkinsville, N. Y., aiiitl fatally hurt. lie is a son of the late Gen. W. B. Hazen/md a nephew of Maj. Gen. William Ludlow. Fanny Davenport Melbourne Max-Dowel)),- the actress, died at Doxbury, Mass. She had been ill for several monlhs. Her death was caused by enlargement of the heart. While resisting an eviction in Garrett, Md., Frank P. Myers shot and killed Constable John Lenhart and Michael Kerns, a spectator. A few moments later an unknown man shot and killed Myers. Stanley E. George, son of one of the wealthiest bankers of Meridian, Miss., was arrested at Denver while in the act of breaking open the poor box of St. Mary's Cathedral. He claims to be under hypnotic influence. While Isidor Widman, a Long Branch. N. J., hoy, was fishing under a railroad bridge several largo stones fell -from a passing flat car, overturned the boat and fatally injured the lad. His father, who was with him, escaped injury. The Bessemer Furnace Company will erect n $2,000,000 steel works at Sharon, Ph. The plant will be Inrge enough to utilize the product of the eighteen furnaces in the Mahoning and Shenaugo valleys owned by the company. Relatives have fully identified the body found in the pond near Bridgeport, Conn., as that of Emma Gill of Southington. Charles A. Plumb of Stratford and Harry Guilford of Bridgeport are under arrest on suspicion of complicity in her murder. An explosion in the Fieischmann distillery at Long Island City wrecked the building and resulted in tlie death of Patrick McCaffrey. Three other workmen in the distillery were seriously injured. The explosion set fire to the ruins of the building and it was consumed. The loss on the distilling plant is about SIOO,OOO. The cause of the explosion is not known.