Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1900 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Atlantic liner St. Paul suffered damages of $250,000 by collision with a derelict at sea and reached New York late. Because he had lost heavily on the races Michael Mallon of Jersey City, 24 years old, committed -suicide by drinking carbolic acid. The W. L. Raeder blankbook, lithographing and printing house at Wilßtesbarre, Pa., was destroyed The loss was $125,000. Charles Amsden, capitalist of Amsden, Vt., was found dead in a room in the Hotel Metropole in Detroit. Heart disease is supposed to have caused death. The wil£ of Frank Williams, late of Johnstown, Ph., makes TtF beqiiCßt 'oT $300,000 to the Lehigh University-J at South Bethlehem, Pa., for the benefit .oX.worlh2^ ; Uldenls, Mr. aud Mrs. Josi.iii Munyan of Vineland, N. J., are the parents of a wonderful baby girl. They can boast that although seventeen weefcs old, this infant weighs fifty pounds. The opera house iu Paterson, N. J., wus..destroyedby A high wind was blowing and the firemen had great difficulty in saving adjoining property. The loss is estimated at $50,000. The authorities of Allegany County, N. Y., are looking for persons who manufactured a skeleton out of bones of domestic animals, which frightened Mary Oldfield of Karrdale to death. George Washington Freeman Horner Green, a former negro slave, died in the almshouse at Hempstead, L. 1., at the reputed age ofT"23 Tears; He was xmee owned by Gen. Geo. Washington. In Pittsburg Louis Dickering, a sick and d-wwuragedTrTveiifof," hung himself with his trousers belt because he could not make a perpetual motion rocking chair and a steamboat-without a paddle wheel. William L. Strong, the last. Mayor of old New York, died at his home there. He was 73 years of age. He had been in vigorous health for two years until a month ago, when he was taken ill with rheumatic gout. • The Arrow, designed to be the fastest ship afloat, wits launched at New York. It is being built for -Charles IL Flint. The contract calls for a speed oTforty-' two miles an hour, and it is thought it will make fifty. James E. Whynks and Miss Edith M. Shook were married in Baltimore beside a bed on which lay the corpse of the groom’s mother. Mrs. Whynks expressed a wish to see her son married, but died before a license could be procured. Because his son Walter is in jail charged with the murder of Jennie Bosschieter, the Paterson mill hand, James McAllister has shut down his silk plant in that city. Mr. McAllister started the mill about six years ago for the benefit of Walter. Arthur Barris, the negro who stabbed Policeman Robert J. Thorpe to death in New York Aug. 12, and who was convicted of murder in the second degree, was sentenced to ilfe imprisonment. The murder of Thorpe the cause of seriowr race riots. Ellen Moore, aged 21 years, of Horsham, Pa., was thrown from a carriage at Willow Grove. She fell under a trolley car and received injuries which caused her death an hour or two later. Miss Moore, with her fiance, Edward Morgan, was driving when the horse took fright at a trolley car and ran away.