Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1900 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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James Gordon Bennett is in New York after three years' absence in Europe. Sophia Holmes, first colored woman ever employed by the United States, is dead in Washington. Officials of the Panama Canal Company have arrived at New York and assert the canal will be built. Copper plate engravers at Tiffany & Co.’s, 'highest-priced workmen in the world, have struck for recognition of their union. The population of the State of Connecticut, tis officially announced by the census bureau, is 908,355. In 1890 the population was 746,258. The ocean steamer Waccamau, bound down, damaged two of the gates of the Welland canal so seriously that navigation was discontinued for two days. The submarine boat Holland has been placed in commission. Site is to be sent to the naval academy at Annapolis, so that the cadets may become thoroughly familiar with this modem weapon of wrfrfare. William Ziegler, a well-known, and wealthy citizen of New York City, has announced that he will purchase two vessels, fully equip and man them and send them in quest of the north pole during the summer of 11)01. Alexander Howard, 49 ymtrs old, of Brooklyn, N. Y., shot and killed his»son, Leigh, 8 years old, and then turned the pistol <upon himself. His mind is believed to have become unbalun/’ed by ill health and the anxieties of business. A grade-crossing accident, in which three persons were instantly killed and one fatally injured occurred five miles west of Neweacstle, Pa! Four persons occupies! a double-seated rig which was struck bjr Monongahela traction car. At Holyoke, Mass., Ovide Berniche left his four children in bed and went out to buy Sunday's provisions; During his absence a layup exploded and the blazing oil spread over the children's beds. All four were burned to dentil. The weddiug at the Presbyterian Church in Bellefonte, Pa., of Miss Helen Rankin Hastings, eldest daughter of former Gov. and Mrs. Daniel Hastings, to Ross Anderson Hickok of Harrisburg was the leading society event in many years. « Bernard Katz of Katz Brothers, the well-known brewers of Paterson, N. J., announces that the Rogers locomotive works have been sold by Jacob Rogers to a syndicate of New York capitalists and a number of Paterson’s most wealthy residents. John White of Kingston, N. J., shot and painfully injured Thomas Sullivan and William Logan while they, with a number of others, were tendering him a mock serenade. White, who is 27 years old. recently married Mrs. Mary Tice, 74 years old.