Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1900 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

The torpedo boat Blakely was launched at the works of George Lawley & Son, South Boston. Charles Garez, a rich Brazilian, was robbed of diamonds and money, in all $5,000, in New York. The crack North German Lloyd steamship Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse came into New York, with one of her propeller blades missing, after the stormiest passage she has ever experienced. Mr. nnd Mrs. William K. Vnnderbilt, Jr., are rejoicing, over the birth of a girl, who will he the heiress to the Vanderbilt millions. Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, Jr., was formerly Virginia Fair. In New York an overdose of morphine, taken to relieve suffering caused by an over-indulgence in liquor, ended the life of Dr. Robert Acton, a physician and a football phtyer on the Harvard team in 181)3. In Rochester, X. V., fire wrecked the plant of the Citizens' Light and Power Company and destroyed the Washington Hour mills, causing a loss estimated at about $175,000, partly covered by insurance. At Greetisburg, Pa., Mortis Shofnosky, the 8-year-old son of Isaac Shofnosky, a merchant, was playing on the gridiron with boys about his own age. During a scrimmage ho was hurl' ami died from his injuries. During the howling of a storm a sneak thief stole jewelry valued at $2,500 from the residence of Alter Mogear in Philadelphia. The thief In escaping with his booty boldly climbed down a pillar of the front porch. Henry Heidig, a swindler whose stealings nitty aggregate 1 and who has been a fugitive from justice for four years, was arrested in New York City. He is said by the police to have been swindling Chicago merchants. Dr. George It. Shurbnrg of Troy, N. Y., who has spent some time in the arctic regions, believes that Audree is still alive, but shut out from the rest of the world by a sea of ice. Dr. Hliurhurg is contemplating a trip to Greenland next spring. - —rArthur Kinney, 23 years old, committed suicide at Waverly, N. V., by Wowing off the side of his head with a shotgun. lie was one of the gunmu's on the Marblehead when the Spanish cable was cut at Cardenas, and was honorably discharged last May.

.The Real Estate Investment Company of Philadelphia made an assignment to John J. Ridgeway, the president nnd a principal stockholder of the company. The assets of the company,'it is said, amount to $300,0U0, while its liabilities are SIOO,OOO. May .Brooks, a. New York “tenderloin" girl, was arrested, charged with coming in too close touch with a Chicago man’s cash. The victim is Arthur Lynn. He went to New York with $2,000 to exchange for amusement, but .the New York pace was too swift. The bodies of Thomas Farley and his wife Julia, both with bullet wounds in their heads, were found lying in the bedroom of the flat they had occupied in New -York. Clasped in the man’s hand was a revolver, with which he had evidently killed his wife and himself. William Simms, colored, who kiiled his wife, Lillie Belle Simms, at Dunbar, Pa., on Aug. 10, 1889, was hanged in the presence of 000 people. Simnts met death unflinchingly, lie gave out a letter claiming that tlie crime was due to his wife’s infidelity. He warned all to be careful whom they married and not to marry too young.