Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1901 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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I Actress Della Fox was married to John Levy, a New York diamond broker. Female prisoners in Brooklyn jail fiercely assaulted the matron and warden. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., has given $250,000 for a school for the poor in New York. t Michael Maloney, a farmer of Lenox tow nship, Pa., is dead at the age of 107 years. Mrs. Carrie S. Huntoon of Concord, N. 12., has been arrested for conspiracy to have lier divorced husband killed. French swindler named Goffray, who lias been posing as the “cardinal bishop of Washington." has been sent to prison. A certificate of corporation was filed at Dover, Del., for the Midland Canal Company of Fargo, N. D. Capital, $ 1,000,uoo. Moses Colt Tyler, professor of American history in Cornell University, died at Ithaca, N. Y. He leaves a-widow, one daughter and a son. The residence of Mrs. Hnriiger, near Brookville. Pa., was destroyed by fire, and the mother and two daughters, aged 5 and 7 years, burned to death. Gov. Roosevelt of New York again lias refused lo honor a Texas requisition for tin- arrest of John I>. Rockefeller and other members Of tEe Standard (til CSBF -pattf; —— A locomotive running wild with no cars 'attached plunged into a crowd gathered about the Pennsylvania Railroad station at Woodbridge, N. J., killed Miss Lulu Marsh of-Railway aud injured many others. At Hackensack, N. J., one little girl is dead and another is'in a critical condition as tEe result, it Is alleged, of being thrown into bonfires by boys. Two boys, John Eckert and Frank Wenzell, both 10 years old, are locked up. William Westlake, the inventor and pioneer business-man--of- -Chicago as a partner in the xveli-known firm of Adams 6 Westlake, died tit.his home, 4 Spencer place, Brooklyn, N. Y. During his lifetime lie hud !liken out about 300 individual patents. A barge canal costing $02,000,0(H), fol lowing very closely the present lines' of the Erie canal, except that while touching the large cities it may not bisect them, is what State Engineer B ind will redout mend, to the New York Legislature on'or about Feb. 32. I)r. Ulysses Higgins Brown, an oculist of Syracuse, N. Y., was found dead in nu areaway nt 200 West, Forty-fifth street, New York. The police say death may have resulted from sandbagging or strangulation, and think it is a possible ease of murder and robbery. Gustave Wolf, who is supposed to have been the last member of the Bridgeport, Conn., suicide club, was found dead with a bullet in liis brain in the jewelry store of Isaac Brush. Wolf was employed there for years as chief clerk. He was 51 years old and a diamond expert. The threatened strike of the employes of the Wilkesbarro and Wyoming Va I ley Eleetrie Railway in Pennsylvania will uot take place. The company and the men, after several conferences, have succeeded in effecting an amicable arrangement, in whieh each side made concession*.