Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1900 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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At Findlay Lake, N. Y., n summer resort, three young women were drowned. Thinking that they were only frolicking, no attempt was made to rescue them. Henry Coulter Brinker, an actor well -known to the ' theater-going public, fell from a window on the fifth floor of the Grand Hotel in New York and was instantly killed. . Fitzsimmons whipped Sharkey in less than two rounds at the Seaside Sporting Club. The Australian defeated his opponent at his own game, oiibfparrtng and oiitpdiiehing liim. Ballyhoo Bey, ridden by Tod Sloan, who was brought from .England for the purpose, w<m the rich Futurity stakes at the first day’s meeting of the Coney J'sl- - and Jockey Club. — -— 1 Orders were received liti. J lunbar. Pa., Tro mH h e iiffieTals ofTfie TTuTitiri'a’SteeT Company of to shift down al-1 their works at that place for an indefinite -period. Over 41)0 men will lie- thrown idle, The heroine of the day in Atlantic (’ity is Mrs. Oliver J. Hamill, a wellknown society woman of Philadelphia, who pursued and captured a biirgbir with the aid of a double-barreled shotgun which was not loaded. D<s>pomlem-.y is said to have been flucause 1 for Mrs. Effie Allen attempting suiekle at the Waverly Houses Charles town, Mass. She tired three shots I'rnlii a 32-caliber revolver, all of which took effect in lA-r left breast. At. Punxsutawney, Pa., fire completely destroyed the Kurtz Building, the Grier & Ousterhout and the Johnston Building adjoining, all in the business part of town, causing a loss estimated at between $!H),000 and $120,000. Information has been received in Philadelphia of the stranding during a hueri—cane of the new British steamer Indra, which sailed with a cargo of sugar from Sarnabaya, Java, for Philadelphia. Nine lives are believed to have ia-en lost. 11. 11. Stridiron, a lumber merchant of Baltimore, was shot in the back of the head and through the eye nr the Hotel Vendome, New York, by IL, J. Ford, who registered from Boston. Ford then yeuiilliited suicide l>y blowing out his brains, Bi-rt 11. Kauffman of St. Louis was found dead in a b.-ittattrb at rher Rockingham Hotel in Portsmouth, N. 11. The eimditiun of the body indicates that he intended to take a bath, but hit his head against the gas light bracket, fell face down into the tub of water ami was drowned. Altha M. Rittciionr of Cniontown. Pa., lost his life through trying to save Samite! Trimble of Pit!s| )t irg from drowning in tin- Moiioitgain-la river. Young Ritenour swam to the drowning man. the latter clutched him about the body in a desperate mariner ami the two friends went down together.