Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1900 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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George Gould’s steam yacht Atalanta has been sold to Venezuela for $125,000, Allerton Merritt, a $lO a week clerk, is accused of stealing $20,000 from the Weehawken Wharf Company, New York. Three children of E. W. Grubbs perished in a burning dwelling at Golinza, Pa. The fire was caused by unexpected nat- ; ural gas pressure overheating a stove, j Ida Clans, aged 10 years, committed I suicide at Philadelphia by taking poison. Despondency over the loss of her position in a department store is the alleged cause. On opening a can of salmon for dinner Mrs. Anna Stennet of Plymouth towni ship, I‘a., discovered a lino diamond ring ! among the contents. A Norristown jeweler valued the stone at S3OO. By the eave-iu of an embankment at j Beaver Brook pond, between Stratford «ml Huntington, Conn., one man was ! fatally and two others were seriously iu- ■ jured. ’All the injured were Italians. Annello Burelega, a New York junk | dealer, threw his wife out of a window !of their home. She fell to the ground, | thirty feet below, and was badly hurt, but will recover. The two had quarreled. On the same day of the year, and at the same hour ns her husband, Mrs. Calvin S. Brice died at her home, No. 003 Fifth avenue, New York. It was the second anniversary of Senator Brice’s death. John Addison Porter, former private secretary to President McKinley and one of the most prominent men of Connecticut, died at his home in Pomfret after a long illness from a complication of diseases. ; Linas Skinner, a former Southington, | Conn., boy, has been sentenced to be shot I for sleeping at his post when on sentry i duty. His father, John I’, Skinner, who is 71 years old, is nearly heartbroken by -the-news. —, Cnpt. Jonathan Norton of Lee, Mass., expired the other evening, aged 105 years. He died iu the belief that some move fortunate person will fathom the mystery and bring about the fruition of his life's strngglc - perpetual motion. John Sterling of Camden, N. .7., was stabbed to death by one of three negroes who held him up while he was walking along the street. Sterling was accompanied by his uncle, Isaac Matthews, when the attack was made. I Maj. A. C. Reinoehl, postmaster of ! Lancaster, I’a., and a prominent member ' of the bar, was found dead in his office, having committed suicide. The gas burn* j ers and stove were turned on full. Finani c-ial troubles are ascribed as the cause. | Michael Lyons, aged 21 years, drank ! a quart of whisky hi a Paterson, X, J., saloon on a wager and then started to drive home to Atbenia. He was found j dead the next day with his body horribly i mangled, lie had been dragged almost a | mile. The 3,000 employes of the Jones & Laughlins iron and steel plants in Pittsburg have been notified that the individual wage contracts made two years ago will he renewed for the ensuing year j with no reduction iu pay. The workmen are jubilant. j I)ny express No. 8, from Chicago on ' the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway, collided with the Leetsdale ac- | commodation, east bound, at Edgeworth, Pa. Both trains were wrecked and ; eleven persons were injured. A mistake iu signals was made.