Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1899 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Martha Moore .Avery ha* announced her candidacy for the socialist nomination for Mayor of Boston! Boston's gift to Admiral Dewey will he a jeweled gold watch with chain and charm, to cost from S7OO to SI,OOO. The steamship Pietpia, Captain Brown, from Mediterranean ports with a miscellaneous cargo, arrived at New York with her cargo on fire. The large steamship Leona of the Mallory line, with its entire cargo, was destroyed by tire at New York, causing a loss of nearly $3C0.000. Resolutions’condemning the civil service law as bring in op;*osition to free institutions bare been adopted by the Pennsylvania league of Republican Clubs. Walter Wellman, who has returned from an expedition to Franz Josef Land, arrived in New York from Liverpool on the Umbria Sunday, accompanied, by his wife. Freeman Strait, a well-known New York real estate dealer and insurance agent. ha> I>.- u arrested, charged with defrauding the Goviwumeat by selling war revenue stamps, chemically restored after cancellation. It is stated by treasury sihsn.il agents that Strait and his asx,whites have cheated the Government out of JIOO.lHltl. Mrs. Josephine Curtis Woodbury has begun seven libel suits in the Superior Court in Boston to recover damages front the leaders of the Christian Science cult, to establish her innocence of certain charges which, sin* avers. Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy made against her publicly. and to expose what she. alleges are the nefarious practices of the Christian Scientists. The Oxford Club was raided by the Boston police early Sunday morning and thrity members arrested charged with gambling. A wagnu loud of paraphernalia and S4.MU«I in poker chips were taken to the station. At the station the prisoners* among whom were twenty-seven of the mo>t prominent and wealthy business Then of the city, furnished cash bail, and superhuman efforts were made to sufe press the story. The raid is a climax to the "wide open” manner in which gambling has been conducted at the club. Only a few nights ago a well-known citi- * n, once wealthy, lost $7,000 at the club, the last of his fortune, and then committed suicide.