Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1901 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Mrs. Chine starved herself to death la New York, though she hud $2,800 iu the bank. Albert Bernstein, noted waxwork* showman, committed suicide in a Bowery hotel. George McAuary, a Chicago man, committed suicide by asphyxiution iu Scranton, I'a, New York burglars took jewelry worth $30,000 from the residence of Francis B. Hoffman. Eight big gam tiling houses of New York have combined, with a capital of $1,000,000. Cejlector Bidwc-ll of New York will drop a lot of deputy inspectors in order to stop smuggling. Unkuown steamer was sunk off the Norfolk coast by collision with the steamer Chamois, which itself may have gone down. Pour,children of Mrs. Alonzo Scott perished in a fire which destroyed Jacob Bnlt's residence at Litchfield, Pa. A hired man rescued Mr**. Balt and Mrs. Scott. - Twenty one fishermen were carried out on Lake Erie off Silver Creek, N. Y., on floating ice, but seventeen of them were rescued. The other four have probably perished. The extensive establishment of Hirschtierg, Hollander & Go., dealers tu paints" and oils, at Baltimore, was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of SIOO,OOO, of which SBO,OOO is on stock. Special Inspector Guld of Champlain, N. Y., arrested Jule Coutre of Rouse’s Point, N. Y., driving eight Chinamen across the boundary line of Canada into the United States near Champlain. William Maxwell Evarts, Secretary of State under President Hayes and one of The grrntest constitutional lawyers and orators this country has produced, died at his home in New York, of pneumonia. More than 200 young women students at Bryn Mnwr College, Philadelphia, rendered <-lli,-ieiiJL service- ia extinguishing a fire in the cottage of Prof. Scott, a member of the faculty, iu the college grounds. The warehouse of the Knox Express Company, a four-story structure at the corner of Four and u Half and C streets Northwest, Washington, was destroyedby fire. The loss is estimated at SIOO,OUO. The shirt manufacturing establishment of Tilth-man Brothers A Fagan, at Adams avenue ami Church street, Philadelphia. was destroyed by tire. The loss is estimated at $70,000; fully covered by iusu ranee. The Leary dye works in the five-story building at Platt and Mill streets. Rochester, N. Y.. was destroyed by lire. Three bodies have been removed from the building and many injured persons have been taken to hospitals. Maj. Daniel W. Whittle, the noted evangelist, formerly of Chicago, and tinlifelong friend and associate of I). L. Moody, died at East Northfiehl. Mass. Death was caused by rheumatism and a complication of ailments. In a collision between the Washington police and members of the Pennsylvania regiments attending the inauguration tinpolicemen used tln-ir revolvers and a little girl. Ollie May Wellington, was wounded, but not seriously. Mrs. Catherine Fullerton, lio years old, was knocked down, beaten and kicked into insensibility and robbed in Columbus avenue, a busy Boston thoroughfare, by John Dawson, who is supposed to have become insane from hunger. Harry Rickey, 52 years old", cashier of the Chestertown, MU., bank, and treasurer of the building association there, committed suicide by drinking carbolic acid. An examination of his books shows that ho embezzled $40,000 of the association's funds.