Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1900 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Charles B. Foote, whose brokerage firm failed, is dead at his country home in Oceanic. N. J. Augustus Thomas’ new comedy, “On the Quiet,” was produced at New London, Conn., by Willie Collier. The population of Johnstown, Pa., is announced as 85,930, against 21,805 in 1890, an increase of 04.81 per cent. Mrs. Katherine Brice of New York is sued for SIOO,OOO claimed as commissions on her husband’s railroad deal. Fire partially destroyed the large grain warehouses and elevators on the Atlantic dock, Brooklyn, causing a loss of SIOO,000 to buildings and contents. The Boston Journal announces that former Gov. Roger Wolcott will not accept the post of ambassador to Italy, teu_de.mlhmi_by .President Mdiinlex, In n fit of drunken rage because she stayed out late, Joseph MdCfulgnn threw bis wife, Sarah, out of the window of their Hat in New York, killing her. Gcorger & Co., wholesale hat merchants of Buffalo, have Hied a voluntary petition in bankruptcy, scheduling liabilities of $210,8(>4, with assets $70,(597. Eighteen men, out of the crew of twenty-three which the schooner Maggie Sullivan carried to the fishing grounds off Chatham, Muss., were lost iu the storm. Twenty armed highbinders, bent on -exterminating Chinese Masons, attacked Ah Fee in Chinatown, New Y'ork, and one of them shot him fatally. A riot followed. Blood was shed for the first time Friday in tl.ie great anthracite miners' strike in Pennsylvania. A sheriff's posse tired inti? a crowd at Shenandoah, killing two and wounding many, Edmund Morrow Post, one of the chief credit men of H. B. Clallin & Co, is dead at his home in New York. Death was due to ptomaine poisoning, caused by eating broiled lobster. Roland P. Falkner, associate professor of statistics at the University of Pennsylvania, has been appointed chief of the division of documents in the library of Congress at a salary of $3,000 per annum. Samuel Reinert has just finished his own grave in I nion Church cemetery, Reading, Pa. He is 03 years of ago and a veteran of the Civil War, but hale and hearty, and did all the work himself. Evan Davis, watchman at Hickory Ridge colliery, near Shauiokin, Pa., was shot by an uuknown person as be was patrolling the colliery. The bullet entered the left side, indicting a serious, if not fatal, wound. Former Secretary °f State John Sherman has placed on record a deed conveying to his adopted daughter, Mrs. Mary E. MeOallnm, his handsome marble front mansion and Ins adjoining property on K street, Washington. Sarah Crunholz, a pretty girl who was married three days before to Max Miller of West Ilobokcn, N. J., tried to commit suicide at her home in Union Hill by taking the contents of two 5-ceut boxes of paris green. Her life was saved. Seventeen-year-old Annie Johnntiis, daughter of Prof. Adolph Johainnis of 014 East Ninth street, New York, has eloped with her uncle, Franz, and her grief-stricken father, who has searched for days and nights to find her, swears to kill her companion. In a crash between two electric eury and a brewery wagon a,t New York Morris Sterufels was killed and twelve other passengers were seriously injured. Both cars were running rapidly and caught the wagon between them. Sterufels was hurled through a window.