Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1900 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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CM. John C. Wyman, who once saved President Grant from drowning, is dead at Providence, It. I. Felix It. Bruno and wife of' Tittsburg, Pa., hav§ given $33,000 to the College of the Bisters of Bethany at Topeka, Kun. Gen. Nelson A. Miles wns elected com-mander-in-ekief of the Spanish war veterans by the convention held at Washington. That man existed before the glacial period is proved by the finding of Ipiplements in the glacier “boulder-wash” oB Long Island. Contractor Dady of Brooklyn has offered to construct a complete sewerage and paving system for the City of Havana for $10,000,000. With one blade of her port propeller gone, the White Star steamship Oceanic reached New York, six days three hours and fifty-six minutes out from Queenstown. An insane man entered St. Paul’s Cathedral, Pittsburg, seized the crucifix and announced himself as St. Peter. He was subdued after a fierce tight ou the altar steps. Thomas .Gaskcli Shearman, who was Henry Ward Beecher's attorney of record in the Tilton ease, died at his house In Brooklyn, four hours after a surgicul operation. More than 4,000 prospective American .citizens were passed through the immigration bureau at the New York barge office the other day. They came from all parts of Europe.

Rum and cigarettes are held responsible for the downfall of Sylvester S. Batting, Jr., a millionaire’s son at Newark, N. J., who by a jury was adjudged incapable of managing his own affairs. The Ventura, the third nnd last of the big steamships that are being built by the Cramps for the Oceanic Steamship Company for service between San Francisco and Australia, was launched at Philadelphia. Mrs. Ora Horsman. a pretty nurse at Lynn, Mass., is worth perhaps $1,000,000, due to the beneficence of Mrs. William Porter of Boston. Mrs. Porter has been nursed aifil cared for by Mrs. Ora Horsman. Edwin Cottrell, once the heaviest plunger in the. wheat pit, killed himself in Central Park, New York, by swallowing carbolic arid, a precedent having been established by his brother, T. I). Cottrell of Chicago. George A. August, who registered as a clothing salesman front Topeka, Kan., nnd who was about 35 years old, committed suicide in liis room on the third floor of the Hotel George In New \ork by shooting himself, Marion Christy, a 15-year-old girl bf Greenville Pa., swam acres Conneaut lake, which for hundreds of miles around is noted for its-icy waters. A thousand persons watched the during feat. The distance was over a mile. Josinh It. Adams, a prominent clubman and lawyer of Philadelphia, committed suicide in a fashionable hotel. His wife was in an adjoining room when the deed wns committed. She knows .of. _iiq reason for her husband’s act. Mrs. Frank Leslie officially announces that she has resigned from the editorship and hns severed her connection with the management of Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly. She also intimates that she has been forced out by trickery. Mrs. Gaetano Bresci, wife of the aasassin of King Humbert of Italy, has given birth to n daughter. Mrs. Bresci is living at West Hoboken. No message has yet been sent to the father, who is serving a life sentence in Italy.