Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1900 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

New York Supreme Court has decided that a winner in a poker game cannot recover money Ijut to a loser. Schooner Hattie V. Kelsey, with he* crew aboard, was dragged off the Jersey coast by a wrecking steamer. In Portland, Me., two persons lost theii lives and two others were severely burned ns the result of a small house fire. Leading citizens of New York have appointed a committee to investigate the reign of vice there and place the responsibility. 11. E. Goodman of Chicago was probably fatally hurt in a mine accident at Vintondnie, I’a., while bravely protecting miners from death. Fire at Fly month, Fa., destroyed two double dwellings and Andrew Boshes, a hoarder, and Mary and Andrew Talada, two children, were burned to death. Housekeeper Of Niiniorth, Fft., was discharged as a voluntary bankrupt in the United States District Court, with liabilities of $2,5i11,003.4.'! and assets of $25. W . . ; Frederick V. McNair, senior rear admiral of the United States navy, ranking next to Admiral Dewey, died at liis home in Washington as tiie result of a stroke of apoplexy. The brokerage firm of 37 & F. Bently in New York announced the disappearance of the firm's confidential clerk, Adolph Wnsserniaii, and a shortage in his accounts of about $+5,000. The announcement that a sugar refinery would be built near Fort Lee, N. J., in 1901 at n cost of $1,250,000 excited interest among Eastern sugar refiners, but no details of the plant were obtained. The Abbot, champion trotter of the world, with X record of 2:03%, went under the hammer in New York for $20,500, and may soon become the property of Richard Croker, czar of Tammany Hull. Frank Tuscnni was murdered at Hackensack, N. J., and the man who slew him was then Jo turn stabbed repeatedly by the friends of the victim. It was practically a lynching uu the part of Tuscani’s friends.

Axteli, the wonderful trotting stallion that was sold for SIOO,OOO on the day that he made a 3 year-old record of 2:13, hack iu 1880, was the star of the FasigTipton horse sale at Madison Square Garden, New York. He sold for $14,790. Halcyon Skinner, an inventor of international reputation, was killed by nil express train on the New Y'ork Central trucks at the foot ,of Fork street, Yonkers. He was walking from his yard along the railroad tracks to liis boat house. Gov. Stickney of Vermont has affixed liis signature to the bill prohibiting the sale of cigarettes to minors, and it became a law within an hour after its pas-~ sage by tiie Senate. The law is popular, and its enforcement will probably be strict. Margaret Kelly, aged 10 years, is believed to have been kidnaped by two strangers from Miner* Mills, Fa. The girl received a note bearing the, name of Rev. Father Kierqan, stating that he wanted to see her. .She left the school and went away with the two men and has not since been seen. Mrs. Annie McMiilen, 85 years old, well-to-do and one of the best known residents in Lower Allegliency, Fa., was brutally beaten, gagged and choked until almost murdered while alone at her liome, and then robbed of considerable mom-Vv Charles Alleudorf lias been arrested and identified as tiie assailant.