Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1899 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Got. Roosevelt of New York favors the whipping post for wife beaters. Joseph Trimborn, a business man of Great Falls, Mont., has disappeared in New York. The only Buddhist temple outside the Orient has been formally dedicated at Philadelphia. Two men were killed and several injured by an explosion at the Kennebec pulp mill at Benton Falls, Me. “Ike” Lewis, the negro who shot Policeman McClure of Lindsey, Pa., at the Patton tunnel, has been captured. The Connecticut House of Representatives defeated the bill providing for woman suffrage, by a rote of 1(13 to 63. At Cortland. N. Y.. Mrs. Joanna Devern, a widow (X) years old. was burned to death in a fire which destroyed her house. Charles E. Kummer. Jr., and Robert C. Kummer, brothers, were drowned in IjOW- , er Mystic lake, near West Bedford. Mass., while canoeing. v William Trasce. of Pit'.sluirg. Pa., killed his sweetheart. Annie Sestak. because she would not marty him. He also fatally wounded himself. George K. Van Horn, the murderer of Mrs. Josephine Wescott, was hanged in one of the corridors of the Lackawanna County jail at Scranton, Pa. At Mechanicsville, N. Y„ James Williams. aged 65 years, murdered his wife, with whom he had not lived for years, and then mortally wounded himself. John Weir, a New Y'ork capitalist, has secured a twelve months' option on all the mining lands and plant of the Clinton. Tenn., sine works, paying SI9O.U(M». Mrs. William C. Whitney, wife of the famous Secretary of the Navy, died at New York from the effects of her fall from her horse more than a year ago. Maj. L. C.\Overman. United States army, retired, was instantly killed by falling from a staging on which lie was at work at his summer home iu Nantucket, Mass. A big forest fire has been ragiug in York County, Pa. Fifty acr»»s of valua ble timber belonging to the estate of the late Henry Baumgardner has been destroyed. Richard Harding Davis of New York, writer, and Miss Cecil Clark, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Marshall Clark of Chicago, were married at St. Gabriel's chapel. Marion, Mass. The bodies of Annie Sakariasen. a Swedish woman of Brooklyn, and her 5-ycar-old son were found in East river. New York. The woman had lived with a man named Treu. The powder mill plant of the Pottsville. Pa.. Water Company blew up. destroying eighteen tons of powder. A gang of tramps, it is believed, set fin* to a magazine. The loss is SIO.(NMt During a violent thunderstorm lightning struck Sadie Tnnie. a Russian New York girl. 13 years old. while standing in Canal street, causing fatal injuries. The bolt was attracted by the steel rod of her umbrella.