Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1900 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Bishop Tobias Mullen is dead at Erie, Pa., aged 82. ( The Blaekstone National Bank of Boston has gone into liquidation. Pennsylvania Railroad has secured control of the Westeru New York and- Pennsylvania road. Fire destroyed ten buildings in the business portion of Lewiston, Me., causing * loss of $50,000. The International Navigation Company is to buikl six big ships for service on the great lakes and the Atlantic ocean. Napoleon J. Haines, aged 70 years, founder of the piano firm of Haines Brothers, died suddenly in New York, of apoplexy. President Patton of Princeton University says if the Presbyterian creed is changed or revised it will be the doom of the church. The Carnegie Steel Company, it is stated, will build the viaduct and elevated structure of the Rapid Transit system in New York. Nearly alt the master painters and decorators of Boston have acceded to the demand of their workmen for an advance of 25 cents per day ih wages. The Merchants’ Association of New York petitions for an nbolition of the stamp taxes on express, railroad and steamboat shipments and ou telegrams. It is admitted in New York that Miss Helen Bertram of the Bostonians is engaged to 8. George D’Essaucr, wanted in Chicago for connection with a bogus bond deal. The Republican State convention of Vermont pronounced in favor of the siuglc gold standard, indorsed McKinley’s administration and nominated uniustructed delegates to the Philadelphia convention. The second woman to leap from the Brooklyn bridge is Marie Rosalie Diuse. She jumped and was but slightly injured. She remained unconscious four hours and then, in a hysterical manner, told a story of financial difficulties. Dick, a vicious elephant belonging to the Sells & Forepaugh circus, was strangled to death in Madison Square Garden, New York, in a futile attempt to subdue him. He was one of the eight original Forepaugh dancing elephants. Bartholdi’s statue of Washington and La Fayette, the gift of Charles Broadway Ilottss to the city of New York, was unveiled with fitting ceremonies in Lafayette square in the presence of more than 3,000 people. Gen. Iloratio C. King made the presentation speech. An unknown man committed suicide at the foundry works of the 11. U. Frick Coke Company at Connellsville, Pa., by diving into a coke oven. In less thau a minute what had been a man apparently in the full vigor of lift* had*mingled with the curling smoke of the ovens. William Russell of Wallingford, Conn., 20 years old, was found guilty of robbery and attempt to murder Thomas Ennis. He broke down on the eve of his departure to the penitentiary and confessed that he had lied to the judge and jury in order to save his father from a convict’s ceil. . John Hughes, aged GO years, shot and killed his wife, Hannah Hughes, and seriously wounded Elizabeth Lyons, aged 10 years, as the women were leaving St. Vincent de Paul’s Church at Syracuse, N. Y. He then went to the house of a friend and attempted to commit suicide. His married life was unhappy.