Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1900 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Mme. Wn, wife of the secretary of the Chinese legation at Washington, has named her tw<r weeks* old 1 baby “Washington.” Four hundred and twenty Christian Endeavor globe trotters are stranded in New York. They were abandoned in Germany by a tourist agency. Edward S. Washburn, president, of the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railway, died of paralysis at Rye Beach, Me., where he had gone for his health. An entire street teeming with black diphtheria in its worst form was discovered at Camden, N. J. That the whole community Is not affected is due only to good fortune. Fifteen persons were kill<-tl -ami fifty injured in a rear-end collision between a south-bound Atlantic City excursion train and a milk train. The disaster occurred at Hatfield, I’a. William Black, colored, was hanged at Belair, Md. Black escaped being lynched only because the sheriff hanged him two hours before the publicly announced time of execution. James J. Corbett knocked out "Kid'' McCoy in the fifth round at Madison Square Garden, New York, before a rec-ord-breaking crowd. This is the last big fight under the Horton law. Louis Goodman, a Russian pack peddler, died at Ms home in Pittsburg, I’a., from the effects of a cold, aged 100 years. He went there when he was GO years of age and worked steadily until he was 104, The census bureau's official bulletin announces the population of Paterson, N. J., to be 105.171, against 7.8.347 in 1800, and that of Wilmington, Del., as 76,508, as compared with 61,431 in 181)0. The national fraternal congress at its session in Boston elected Charles E. Bonnell, Chicago, president; Dr, H, A. Warner, Topeka, Kan., vice-president; M. W. Sackett, Meadville, Pa., secretaiyShortly after the beginning of the racing in the closing day of the grand circuit meeting at Narragansett park, Providence. R. 1., fire destroyed three stables, a’ number of cattle sheds, and burned to death four race horses. The Hope mill, the Glasgow mill and eight new furnaces in the nail works puddle mill, conducted by the Glasgow Iron Company,’will resume operations nt Pottstown, I’a., after a long idleness. The resumption will give employment to 300 puddlers and helpers. Thomas J. Powers, commissioner of banking fmc Pennsylvania,, was killed by falling from a train in the outskirts of Philadelphia. His badly mangled body was found under the Pennsylvania bridge spanning the Delaware river by three men gunning in the marshes. The scenes that attended the sixth annual convention of the Beta Theta I’i fraternity at Put-in-Bay beggar description. One of its antics in the big Hotel Victory, where 700 guests are quartered, was to get up at 2 a. m.. 300 strong, und u parade the halls in their pajamas. Charges have arrived from the Treasury Department at Washington against ten employes of the immigration service at the port of New York. The charges are of various characters, including incompetency, brutality and accepting bribes, ami tire the result of an investigation held last spring. Repentant for a crime done in a fit of rage, and dreading to face the consequences of his act. Daniel Beetle, a prosperous farmer, killed himself in the Woodbury, N. J., jail. Beetle shot Herbert Clement, the son of a neighbor, in a line fence quarrel. He drowned himself in the jail bathtub. Miss Rose Fisher, a comely young woman, was rescued from the Brandywine at Wilmington, Del., long after it was supposed that she was drowned. The girl says she met the man on the street and he proposed a walk. They walked to the Brandywine park. The girl was standing on the wall of the race, she says, when her companion pushed her over and ran'away.