Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1901 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Fire in the business district of Scranton, Pa., did $1,000,000 damage. New York City officials have approved Battery Park as a site for a naval nreh. Five persons were killed and many injured in a wreck on the Erie Railway at Greenville, Pa. A bill to punish kidnapers of children by hanging was passed unanimously by the Delaware House. Part of the Oriental Powder mills at Xewhall, Me., was demolished by an explosiou. Two employes were blown to atoms. : 1..-..;. - : , Governor Hill has issued a tail for a special election in the Fourth Maine District April 8, for a successor to Congressman C. A. Boutelle, resigned. Lorenzo Priori, who murdered Vincenzo Garuzo in New York City Dec. 11, 1898, was put to death in the electric chair in the State prison at Sing Sing. Smoke and flumes issuing from a sec-ond-story window of the Langhnm Hotel, New York, caused an incipient riot among the patrons. Not much damage wns done., Marvin A. MacClure has been found guilty of aiding nnd abetting Cashier Charles W. Mussey in embezzling $140,-| 000 from the Merchants’ National Bank of Hutland, Yt. Albert Lintner, serving a ten years’ sentence in the Massachusetts State prison for counterfeiting, died of cousump tion. Lintner was about 35 years of age and was born in Indianapolis. Maddened by the discovery that his young bride of three months had a husband nnd a child of 3 years when she married him, Carl Arnold shot nnd killed his wife in New York nnd then himself. He was 23 years old. Charles Yost was stabbed over the heart by Fred Hoffman, n groeeryman, .in Hoffman's store in New York. Yost managed to get to his home, where he died in his wife’s arms. The trouble arose over n trifling sum of money. Blindness is the penalty paid by -FrankJefferson s>t Upper Roxborottgb, Pa., for disregarding repeated warnings of hi 3 physicians and relatives, who attempted to prevail upon him to give up the excessive use of cigarettes. Jefferson is 11) years oh!. Three persons dead,, four others badly injured aud a financial loss of $2,500 is the summary of damngo caused by a fire that occurred in a four-story brick dwelling on Harrison nvenue, Boston. There is u suspicion that the fire was of incendiary origin. Colonel Albert D. Shaw, of Watertown, N. Y., former commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic and a member of the present House gs Representatives, was found dead Sunday morning in his room at the Riggs House in Washington. Death was caused by apoplexy. Peter Woll, an aged and prominent Philaelpliia manufacturer, was knocked down o uthe street by a highwayman as he was leaving n ; national bank and a satchel containing SB,OOO was wrenched from his hand. The money wns recovered by a policeman, who captured the thief after an exciting chase. 1 For more than twenty years Timothy O’Brien begged for a living and denied himself ordinary comfort. As a result |he accumulated property estimated at about $25,000, but he died from starvation and exposure fn n squalid little room on the top floor of a New \ r ork tenement, where he had lived for eleven years.