Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1899 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Ex-Commissioner of Indian Affairs Alexander B. Upshaw died at New York. He waa 48 years old. The death is announced in Brooklyn, N. Y., of William Peak, the famous bellringer, aged 94 years. At Chambersbnrg, Pa.. Miss Alice Ha*l*. a school teacher, died from the effects of having a tooth extracted. The Connecticut Supreme Court has rendered a decision that the property of Yale University is exempt from taxation. The indeterminate sentence act, socalled, has been declared to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of Massachusetts. Total liabilities of $1,166,536 and assets of SSO are the figures given by Tlios. H. Brush, a New York builder, who filed a petition in bankruptcy. Silas Anderson, colored, who shot and killed his wife March 13 last, was hanged in the county jail at Pittsburg. Jealousy was the cause of the crime. Remington Vernon, the founder of Ar-verne-by-the-Sea, has filed a petition in bankruptcy, giving his liabilities as $728,040 and his available assets as nothing. Olive Farrington Sampson, daughter of Admiral and Mrs. William T. Sampson, and William Harrison Scott of San Francisco were married at Glen Ridge, N. J. A petition in involuntary bankruptcy has been filed against M. C. Spencer A Co., dry goods merchants of New York, whose liabilities are said to exceed $160,000. Bailey Decker, colored, was put to death by electricity in Sing Sing, N. Y., prison for the murder of his white wife. Decker, while drunk, killed his wife in a jealous rage. Through information received from a crook the Boston police were enabled to prevent the carrying out of a scheme to rob the Shreve. Crunfp & Low company of diamonds valued at SIO,OOO. Otis Kendall, former professor of mathematics and astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania, and for many years one of the foremost educators of the country, died at Philadelphia, aged 82 years. The City Council and County Commissioners of Newcastle, Pa., have offered a reward of $4,000 for the arrest and conviction of the men who murdered City Treasurer John Blevius and robbed his office. The Hotel Main and the Levins building adjoining, in which were Neeson & Jones’ tailoring establishment and A. M. Brown’s dry goods store, were destroyed by fire at Washington. Pa. Loss SIOO,OOO, insurance $85,000. A local passenger train going west and an excursion train going east met head on in a deep cut at sharp curve on the Lehigh Valley Road near West Duncllen, N. J. Thirteen persons were killed and thirty-five injured. The Electric Company of America has been incorporated in New Jersey, with a capital stock of $25,000,000. George W. Elkins will be its president, and it is proposed to control the street lighting business east of the Mississippi river. The Outside doors of the vault of the Phoenix National Bank at Phoenix, It. 1., were blown oqt by dynamite, but three men who attempted to rob the bank were away before they could gain access to the interior apartments, where the money and other valuables were kept. The night telegraph operator of the Philadelphia and Rending Itailroad at Bingen, Pa., was murdered by unknown parties. He had reported his last train at 12:45 a. m.. and Sit 1:30 a. m. a freight conductor discovered his body, still warm, at the desk in the depot office. The place had been looted, nnd a struggle bad evidently taken place.