Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1900 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

At fttewaristwwn, l‘a, George V. Met* art. ftwmder Of the- Improved Order of Hrptas*»|d»ai, died siiddealy, at the age of IS yvors. Federal Judge McPhersou of Philadelphia has readervsl; a decision that all rluhs- srlliwg li»|tt*»rs n»ost pay the special federal tax of F 25. R-wlw-rt J. Kim. alias J. R. Bennett, was svnlrewvd at ISttsburg. Pa., to four years and a half tn the Riverside peuitenliiary for swindling. AirtMvs of incorporation were filed at TtvMMu. X. J- for the New York Herald Ownpawy. capital slWt>.Wt>. to publish new spapers anti tnagaxines. “‘Kid" Metoy defeated IMer Maher in the fefth naiad of what was scheduled as a twenty-lire round go at the Coney Isiand. X. T- AtMrtie Club. Edwin Ray Snow, charged with the murder of James T. Whittemore at Yarmouth. -Mass*, pleaded guilty ami was setitettcvd to he executed March IS. I’pan the height* of Arlington ceuietesy. «»ppw<*i.te Washington, the Maiua dead, bexsught from Havana by the bat-llr-shnp, Texas, wen- laid in their final nSJtiiiiiS place In Xew Yurt. Charles S. Kendall, formerly a manhfartun-r of sasii. donrs and hhuds.dM» tiled a iwtitiou in bankruptcy. UabilitiiK-s SI!SS,ST»». of which siSl,bi«> is uuseoiryd. Au expkxsioni wf sewer gas at Knoxville, Pa_-a nhriviiua bunwiiirti near Ihttsburg. wricked a barge number of houses and stables atui ton- up several streets for hundred* of feet. N« one was injured. The- enmnii-ttee appointed by erem tors to investigate the- a’-ojmwtn yt Stahl At Straub, brokem aft Philadelphia, who tailed Nov. t** rvtmrt that not i dollar’s Wurth of avail.ildr- yesowrivs Aits' found. The Rcr, Syivester. Malone, pastor of ths- Roman Cath'-die church of SS. Peter and Pauli. RruoMyu. X. Y, and a member of the--I**#rd of regents of tite Cniwrsity *»f Xe» York, is dead, aged 7l> year*,. The two seven -story buddings at 42q U» ,<ST» East 24th siwei. Xew York, occupied priuctjmliy by the wall paper faetwry ott William Campbell A Co, were dx-strxxyi-d by -fire. Ttie. toss was fully The wdß of the- lute Josephus Forbes of Xew Haven. Couu, rispn-aths S46U. <M*» to be diyidvd between St. Paul's Ejusrvp.sll Church and the Ladies’ Sea-mv-nN- Frietl-ds Society* the tatter to receive om'-tbiird of tlu- estate.The will of the late liauiel Sharp Ford. puMiisher of the Youth's Companion, tiled fbr ptt'oJhxte tn the Middlesex bounty, M a-sss, prxdnatv ejnirt. dtsp»>ses of an estate of aß»out sK2.ok*km*i. The will gives s7Jy»i«ii j o public vbardabte and religious snstWsMmms. . : ' M>. Mary Raker Eddy, of Roston. the willed Chrirtiau Scmtttist. has given her shmui. CSrorgi- Glover, of Lead. S. IK, a prisond consisting of a cheek for $lO,fWM and a clear title to a*-*lsAM*> dwell-jngj-hdtssx-.. whivlt is the most palatial in the Blavk hills. ”Xwwis E. Goldsmith, assistant cashier of the Port Jervis. X. Y.» National Bank, who iis aMvged tj* have robbed that iustitulkm of K»*A«i** Nov. U last, and also to have CalsiScd the batiks books, has aairteudvred hintself to I nited States -Marshal HenWl itu New York, t tty. Alftvd Motrisodik. a |»rwfess*>r of language-*. misfvxA his. wife for a burglar duriag th*- night and shot her at their home in Xlouiitt Ye-ruon. N. Y. lhe bullet entered her left shoulder and is lodged near the Smug. Mrs. Morrison s baby was sack aßud she arose -to get the child soipe medicine. Hahultou Gormley, a native of Rridgie port. Vonn., who left, bme twenty years agx* ami ha* *iu*-e- In-v-tt mourned as dead, tetutwd the other day, sttrprising his family and ri'lutivx-s* He has acquired a fortune of St2K‘** k in s*'M mining and will iimvv-st the msmcy in Rridavport property A iivv-*t-»ry huildmg at Z'rt First avenue. New York, was gutted by fir*-. Ihe ftamo * which *uddewly K-lehed from the buikliing wet*- dis*y>vvrvil by men working in the i'nited Ihtessed Reef Company s plant. J'ltw-y carried <,H>t half a dozen women, while many persons got to the Sttva-t hy lumeati* »>■! tire escapes. On the t«*g-> Iflhwxr t» tmmtfes-old Loretta Lennert Wa* f*«nu*l in- bed dead. She had ri-vn smothered by th*- smo-kr. Joseph Kelleher. 151. belli l*»y." rtt-hed into the building lwf«Mrv the.arrival »d tin- firemen. He rwiieh*’-,! Tills*' Powers, a child, carrying her thrv'Wgls tin- fire ami snioke. He was bttmexl arioit the taamls and face.