Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1900 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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The official census of greater New York has jM»en completed. It is 5,437,202. Chief Justice Henry Green of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court died at Atlantic City, N. J. George Cabot Lodge, son of the Massachusetts Senator, was married to Miss Matilda F. Davis. M. K. McMullin has bought the West L'tid Tvaef-irm -Company of Pittsburg for neatly $4,500,000 cash. ™ .TLe Carnegie company: has made a deal whereby it will control the iron production of Lake Superior region for fifty years. Letters found in J’rcsei's lodgings indi-■t-atesthttt-Mort-sca e.m144 uh In,-■•tttwtrted-fa-N'ew A’ork, intended to kill President McKiuh y. . . _ Seven cases of smnlrpox have developed In Erie, Pa., several more art 1 suspected and the people of fully one-hulf of one ward -have been exposed. In a crossing accident near Allentown, Pa., John F. Welle. Harvey (). W olle and John V. Gottschalk, comprising a party of"caingißrs, were killed. The census office has announced the population of Greater New York (Man11. :>n and Bronx boroughs) ns 2,<>sd,<)<•(>. The popnlatlot) of i!i< Lorongh of Manhattan is 1,850,003, and that of the Bronx 200,507. The entire works above ground of the Berwind colliery at Dubois, -Fa., have been destroyed by fire. Sixty men, who were in the mine at the time, were saved by prompt and heioic action. The loss will approach 200,000. James Young, a laborer, deliberately threw his 2-year-old child into, the East river in- New York. Four men saw the deed. Young was not intoxicated, nor can he explain his action except by attributing it to temporary insanity. His child was rescued. Mabel McKinley, favorite niece of the President, whose charms have made Iter the recipient us scores of proposals, in■rTtnfing'imrrfaT' foreign Tfncs;“"wtTi~"tweome tire brnle-of-Hcwmauos Baer Sept. 12. The wedding will take place in the home of the bride’s -father, Abner. McKinley, at Somerset, Pa. A consolidation of the largest manufacturers of heavy fire apparatus in this cotmtiy effremt in New York under the name of the International Fire Engine Company. Ail the concerns in the United Stales manufacturing steam apparatus arc- included in the combination, which is stated to have a capital of s'.),000.000, A bold attempt tp_nssnssinate President McKinley was frustrated by the United States secret service* department. Two Italians, said to la* anarchists, on their way to this country with the nvowed intention of killing the President. "Were arrested on the Kaiser Wilhelm as the.big boat was nearing New York harbor. The men are Natalie Moresca and Michael Guida. A desperate attempt at train wrecking was’made on the meadows back of Atlantic- City, N. J. The tracks were obstructed with railroad iron and tie's, and the express on the Pennsylvania Railroad from that city, carrying over 200 passengers, was almost derailed. By what se'em s To“h aVe' bee it iitm6snmiTnn*te the train was brought to a standstill Irefore much damage was done.