Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1900 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Tammany’s ticket, headed by J. P. Stanchfield for Governor, was put up by the New York Democratic convention. Gov. Iloosevelt has dismissed the charges against District Attorney Gardiner, finding him “morally guilty, but legally innocent." Rear Admiral Montgomery Sicard, who rfor fifty years had been in the United States navy, dif’d suddenly at Westernrille, N. Y. Death was due to apoplexy. The great strike in the anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania has begun. Both sides are confident. Of the 142,000 miners in the district 112,000 obeyed the order to strike. A fiendish attempt at murder, with the motive of robbery,' occurred near Vtneland, N. J. The victim of the tragedy, William H. Wright of Philadelphia, has five bullets in his back. Mrs. Philip T diner, who is 50 years old and weighs 200 pounds, risked her own life at Newton, Mass., to save that of a 3-year-old child who had fallen into a well, and pulled him out unhurt. A bronze statue of Stephen C. Foster, the famous American song writer, was unveiled at Pittsburg by his daughter, Mrs. Marion Foster Welsh of Chicago, in the presence of 40,000 people. A Maplewood cottage brake with twelve persons on hoard toppled over near the Twin Mountain House, near Bethlehem, N. H., anil nearly every one was injured, none, however, fatally. While wearing a diver’s suit at the bottom of a cove near the torpedo station at Newport, George Brown, a senman gunner, had n thrilling fight for life with a shark, in which the shark was killed. The will of the late Thomas Kingsford, the Oswego, N. Y., millionaire starch manufacturer, directs that the property be divided according to the statute. The estate is estimated to be worth $3,000,000. The old Bible house at Fourth avenue and Ninth street, New York, the home of the American Bible Society since 1852, is to be sold nnd the great printing establishment of the society probably will be given up. A pretty school teacher. Miss Ida E. Smith, has brought suit for $50,000 damages for breach of promise against Chas. W. Compton, a wealthy retired undertaker of Newark, N. J. He is 87 years old and she is 27. The stories of the inhumanity of tugboat captains at the time of the Hoboken steamboat fire have been confirmed by a coroner’s jury, which says that but for these exhibitions of greed many more lives might have been saved. Juda A. Fleeze, known a» the model child, the most beautifully formed, from an Jiriisl's vien\ls_dead by .her own hand in New York. She eloped with a youth of 16, then two years her senior. Poverty evidently caused the deed. About forty racegoers were injured in a collision which occurred on the Yonkers, N. Y„ trolley system. Two cars, traveling in opposite drections on a single track at the rate of ten miles an hour, came together with terrific force. Three of the victim? will probably die. Because of the refusal of the Jacob Dold Packing Company to discharge two men who refused to pay their dues to the union about 1,000 butchers are on strike at Buffalo in the plants of the Dold company, Sahlem Brothers, Klinick Brothers and the Buffalo Packing Company. A supposed Chicago innn lias been at the hospital in White Plains, N. Y., since July (5, suffering from the effects of a lightning strike. He will be sent home as soon as he can recall his name. He was rendered unconscious by a lightning stroke, and when he recovered his memory of past events was completely gone. The State Comptroller’s department of New York has bought for $12,000 a plat of twenty-five acres of land at Lake George, the scene of one of the conflicts of the French and Indian war, and the property is to be added to a plat of ten acres in the same locality, purchased in 1898, for the purpose of establishing a State park.