Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1900 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Okarles Dudley Warner, ths famous author and editor, died" suddenly of heart disease at Hartford, Conn. John Sbernityi died at bis residence in Washington of what the attendant physicians called brain exhaustion. Ex-Gov. W. I*. Dillingham was elected United States Senator by the Vermont Legislature. The choice was made on the third ballot. Convicts in the Mntteawan, N .Y., hospital for insane criminals oyerpowered their keepers and escaped. Several ot the number are nt large. ' Henry Miller, a neighbor of Horace Greeley, is dead at Chappaqua, N. Y., In bis eightieth year. He was the inventor of the fleam ami air brake. The abattoir at the stock yards at West Philadelphia, Pa., was partly destroyed by a lire of unknown origin, causing a loss of about ss*.>,<>(Ml, fully entered by insurance. Charles 11. Eastman, an instructor in Agifsi : niuseuhi, Harvard College, was arrested on the charge of murdering his brother-in-law, Richard H. Grogan, Jr., on July 4 last. James Nelson, a sporting man, while alighting from the rear platform of the last cur on the Chenango train on the West Shore road at Syracuse, N. Y., slipped under the wheels. He was literally decapitated. Henry Howard Stewart, a stenographer employed in the Metropolitan Life Insurance building, New York, was arrested in his employers’ office at the instance of the Cleveland police, who want him for child murder. The fine art gallery of William L, Elkins at Elkins, Pa., has been enriched by the addition of four celebrated paintings by Jacob Van Ituisdale, Albert Cuyp, Agnolo Bronzio and George Morland, valued at over $150,000. The strike on the $2,000,000 Wachusetts dam at Clinton, Mass., has been broken. The contractors secured 300 men to fill the strikers' places and had a large force of police on hand. The strikers gave in and went to work and the police retired. Fire partly destroyed the home of Harriet Prescott Spofford, poet and author, at Newburyport, Mass., causing a $2,000 loss. The bouse is on Deer Island, neat the ancient chain bridge. Many of the priceless treasures of Mrs. Spofford are damaged, if not destroyed. The entire body of George B. Bailey of North Saugus, who was murdered about Oct. 8. is now in the possession of the Lynn, Mass., police and has been positively identified. The missing head and arms were found by the police in dragging Glemnere, “Floating Bridge Pond.”