Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1901 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Th* Yale undergraduates have decided to take part in the inaugural parade in Washington next March. New Hampshire Republicans threw over Senator William E. Chandler and selected Henry B. Burnham. The arbitrators of the street car strike at Reading, Pa., have declared the strike off. The strikers won every point. Rear Admiral Thomas F. Phelps, U. 8. N,, retired, of Washington, D. G., died at the New York hospital of pneumonia. The President has signed the bill authorizing the placing of Congressman Boutelle of Maine on the retired list of the nuvy with the rank of captain. Miss Elsie 'l'. French ami Alfred Gwynrie Vanderbilt were married Monday in the Seubriskie Memorial Church Of St. John the Evangelist at Newport, R. I. Former Councilman Hurry F. Lesan of Cambridge, Mass., pleaded guilty to the charge of illegal naturalization und waa sentenced to one year in the house of correction. Servante Anderson, a Swede, shot and killed his wife and probably fatally wounded his mother and 5-year-old boy at their home in Jamaica Plain, Mass. He then killed himself. Winning the largest single wager ever made against roulette in New York, Michael Meagher on one roll of the ball took $10,500 from the Savoy Club. He had placed S3OO upon the number “11.” Abraham L. Stiydam committed suicide at New Brunswick, N...J. He ate a hearty supper witlr apparent relish. Then he took an apple, sprinkled it liberally with strychnine, ate the apple und died. At Bridgeton. N. J., Arthur, Frederick and Edward Lloyd, aged 5, 7 and 11 years, respectively, sons of a well-to-do family, disnppeare‘l the other day. A big hole in the ice iu a pond revealed their fate. Tlie "Buckingham.” one of the handsomest apartment houses in Buffalo, N. Y., was damaged SIOO,OOO by lire and Mary Spitzman and Clara Meyers, waitresses in the woman’s case, were burned to death. The New Jersey Council of the Junior Order «f United American Mechanics, with a membership of 32,000, has withdrawn from the national council because of the latter’s action in changing the basis of representation. Edward Bockus, one of the chief editorial writers of the Boston Herald for more than twenty years, was instantly killed in Dorchester, Mass., while crossing a railroad track ahead of an approaching train at a grade crossing. Charles Bellinger, who recently accompanied Wilson Wright to San Francisco to search for $190,000 of buried treasure, on the advice of a clairvoyant, has returned to his home near Middletown, N. Y. Wright did not find any treasure. Jacob Cole, a wealthy real estate dealer and an old-time resilient of Fordham, N. Y., died at the Fordham hospital just thirteen hours after he had been stricken while playing a game of pinochle at the Roosevelt Club. There fell to his hand the "suit of death.” James Millage, a 10-yeiir-ohl Pittsburg boy, is charged with causing the death of May Dieber, a 6-year-old girl. It was alleged that young Millage chased the girl with a burning broom, finally setting fire to her clothing. Before the flames were extinguished the little one was fatally burned.