Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1900 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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James Sift McKean died at Pittsburg, Pa., aged 50. J Gea, Allan Rutherford, clerk of the Maryland Court of Appeals, is dead at Washington, aged tX). - -- - Carl Keruig, his wife and son were found dead near Cambridge, Md., having committed suicide by banging. Miss Vivian Clerise aud J. W. Cardowuie, variety actors, were drowned lu Lake Whitney, near New Haven, Conn. A passenger traiu struck and instantly killed two unknown men who were walking on the track near Bloomsbury, N. J. Claude M. Johnson, chief of tbe bureau of engraving and printing at W'ashfngton, has tendered his resignation to Secretary Cage, , In New York Marion Manoln Mason was granted a decree of divorce from Joha Mason, with $25 weekly alimony for life. , Thomas llarlaud, a well-known lawyer, is dead in New York, aged 70 years. He was the practical framer of our existing patent law. By the explosion of « portable boiler belonging to Drake & Stratton, contractors at Rankin. Pa.,' tive men were terribly injured and eight others cut, bruis_ed and scalded. The Fifth Avenue Hotel and Madison Square Theater properties in New York were sold nt auction for $4,225,000. Tho buyer was William P. Eno, one of the heirs to the Selling estate. At Philippsburg, N. J., a coal train rau into a shiftiug engine on the New Jersey Central Railroad and Michael McNally, fireman of the shifter, was crushed to death. The United States Circuit Court in New York City handed down an order restraining the Wilmore-Andrews Publishing Company from using the title “Oxford Bible.” Gramatan Inn, at Brouxville, N. Y., for several years the mecca of wealthy New Yorkers in summer, was burned. Loss, SIOO,OOO. The hotel had just been refurnished at a cost of $50,000. Judge Laeombe of the United States Circuit Court of New York appointed Henry W. Gays receiver of the New York and Ottawa Railroad Company. Mr. Gays has been the general manager of the road. ___ At Pittsburg the jury in the divorce suit of James King Clarke against Esther Bartlett Clarke failed to agree upon a verdict and was discharged, after having deliberated upon the ease for almost twenty two hours. The biggest oil well tapped iu the Pennsylvania fields since May 18, 18S2, is the Blossburg Oil Cofupany’s new strike at Gaines, on Pine creek, in Tioga County. The well began flowing at the rate of 100 barrels an hour.