Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1900 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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The borough of Richmond threatens to secede from Greater New York. The nctors’ fund has decided to establish an actors’ home in New York City. Fire damaged the Mesta Machine Company’s plant at Homestead, Pa., to the extent of $50,000. Gardiner 8. Williams, emeritus professor in Cornell University, is dead at Ithaca, N. Y., aged 72. Chicagoans to the number of 280 are in a-party of Scandinavians which just sailed from New York City. William Waldorf Astor’s $2,000,000 assessment for 1890 has been confirmed by the New York tax commissioners. C. C. Augur of Evanston, Hi., and P, K. Hoy of Nutley. N. J., students nt Princeton, were drowned in Millstone creek. .1 The building trades’ strike at Philadelphia has been settled through the falling out of the Allied Trades* Council and the Carpenters and Joiners. Mary Martin, an Irish girl, lately employed at the Hotel Pleasant at Worcester, Mass., confesses to have started ten fires. It is believed that she is suffering from fire mania. Francis Truth, a divine healer, was indicted by the United States grand jury at Boston, Mass., on seven bills aggregating twenty counts for alleged fraudulent use of the mails. Prof. Roy Wilson White, an instructor of law in the University of Pennsylvania, was beaten to death on the street in West Philadelphia. Three suspected negroes are under arrest. A train on the Pennsylvania road ran into several gravel cars on a bridge near the station at Mount Holly, N. J., owing to defective brakes. A number of passengers received injuries. Another man leaped from the Brooklyn bridge in New York He was August A. Pless, 25 years old. Pless lived with his mother, who has a candy store. He had been jilted by his sweetheart. In Philadelphia Mrs. Lizzie Blakely drowned her 2-year-old daughter Marie in a bathtub, and afterwards attempted to drown herself. She was dragged out, with the child dead in her arms, by a policeman. The Diamond Breaker, owned by the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company at Wilkesbarre, Pa., was destroyed by fire. The loss is about S3O,(XX). It U supposed the fire was accidentally started by tramps. Because the life line ou her hand was broken before it reached the base of the thumb and the reading of the cards foretold a violent death, Mrs. Jennie Patrlquiu committed suicide at her home in Chelsea, Mass. Fire destroyed the Grand Army Home for Soldiers’ Widows at Hawkins Station, near Pittsburg. The forty inmates, ranging in age from 50 to 95 years, es l caped without injury. Loss $20,000; cause of fire unknown.