Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1899 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Robert S. Gardiner, aged 57 years, is dead at Boston, Mass. Miss Caroline Hazard of Peacedale, R. 1., has been elected president of Wellesley College. George Newberger. 82 years old, was crushed to death in New York by a hook and ladder truck. Mrs. Margaret E. Cody has been convicted of attempting to blackmail George and Helen Gould. The loss is reported nt Newport News of the-tug Janies Bowen with all on board, numbering twelvy. 1 William Noble, builder of many wellknown hotels in New York, has failed, with liabilities of $1,027,400. The American Missionary Association, with headquarters in New York, has voted to establish Christian schools in Porto Rico. Frank N. Sheldon, on trial at Auburn, N. Y., for the second time for the murder of his wife. Eva M. Sheldon, committed suicide in the jail. Edward C. Andre, Belgian consul general at Manila, is in Neiv Y’ork trying to organize a SIOIOOO,OOO syndicate to develop the Philippines. James Lindsay Murray, dean of the faculty of Princeton University and a very well known educator, has resigned because of failing health. Eckley, a small mining village about ten miles northeast of Hazleton, Pa., was struck by a cyclone. Considerable damage was done, but no lives were lost. The Manhattan Railroad Company of New Y’ork has/lefinitely adopted the electric third-rail system for the operating equipment of the elevated railroad. Frank Gilfort, one of the Gilfort brothers. well-known circus gympasts, died at Orange, N. J., the result of blood poisoning preceding the amputation of a leg. The fourth annual convention of the National Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, held in Pittsburg, elected John T. Butler of Buffalo, N. Y., its president. Andrew’ C. Fowle died of heart failure at his home in Newark, N. J., aged 70 years. In 1802 he constructed for the government the first geometrical lathe for banke note engraving.

In Philadelphia, Pa., John H. Evans, arrested while in the act of robbing an uptown dwelling, was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment within twenty-four hours of the time of his arrest. At Hazletou, Pa., orders were received for an indefinite suspension of work at the Jeunesville collieries of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company. Over 500 men and boys were thrown out of employment. Samuel Hudnut of Philadelphia, conductor of Blue Line express No. 514, from Philadelphia for CommunipaW, was beheaded at Bayonne, N. Y'. A bridge support threw him under the wheels. Mrs. Maggie wife of Homer Smith, aged 33 years, was found dead in Sharon, Pa., with two wounds on her head ami her clothes burned from her body. Her husband was arrested. During a fire in Philadelphia Mrs. Catherine Marlin, aged 58, was suffocated by smoke; William Marlin, her son, was badly injured by falling from a window, and Frank Levy, aged 5, was overcome by smoke.