Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1899 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Charles Sheppard Roe of Chicago was found dead on the street at New York. Henry T. Wells, a real estate broker of Newton, Mass., has lied a petition is bankruptcy. Liabilities $183,7(53, assets $84,750. Gov. Stone of Pennsylvania has appointed Matthew Stanley Quay as Senator to serve until the next sea wan of the Legislature. “Kid” Levelle, the Chester, Pa., pugilist who was injured in his fight with John Cavanaugh at Homestead, died at the Mercy hospital ia Pittsburg. The administration building, between the north and south wings of the penitentiary on Blackwell's Island, New York, was partially destroyed by fire the other day. Rev. Dr. Charles A. Briggs of Union Theological Seminary will be ordained to the Protestant Episcopal priesthood on May 14. in St. Peter's Church, Westchester, N. Y. Congressman Joseph C. Sibley of Penn- j syivania hits notified the voters of the Twenty-seventh district that he will die- 1 tribute his salary to organisations and institutions throughout that district. Matthew Stanley Quay has been declared by a jury to be not guilty of the charge of conspiring to use for his own unlawful gain and profit tbe funds of the State of Pennsylvania deposited in the People’s Bank of Philadelphia. Miss Nina Hall of Haven, Kan., on the eve of her marriage to Assistant Engineer Ebby of the battleship Brooklyn, was killed by the accidental discharge of a gun. Her lover did not learn of her death until he arrived for the marriage ceremony. John Louis Lay, formerly a first assistant engineer in the United States navy, and inventor of the Lay torpedo, which was used by Lieut. William B Cashing to destroy the Confederate gunboat Albemarle in 18(54, is dead in New York, aged (58 years. Henry W. Strnss has filed a petition in bankruptcy at New York, with liabilities of $579,140 and no assets. Nearly all the liabilities were contracted as a partner in the firm of Louis Franke & Co- manufacturers of silk yarns in New York and Paterson, N. J- which firm failed April 17, 1890. Gov. Roosevelt has received and considered the report of the court that investigated charges laid against officers of the Seventy-first regiment of New York City. Tbe court found that Maj. Smith, Capt. Whittle and Maj. Austin were guilty of lack of bravery and courage and of ineompetcncy.