Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1901 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

In a faro game lasting fifteen hours In New 1 ork a uian who has made millions In steel stocks lost $50,000. Josiah I*. Doremus, a retired millionaire shoe merchant, killed himself at Paterson, N. 1., by driuking carbolic acid. The differences between the miners and operator's of the Hocking \ alley have been adjusted, the miners making concessions. Joseph Hinton, who on Feb. II last shot Miss M aggie *Bhurtz at Logan/Pa., was found guilty of muderr in the first degree and given a life sentence. Miss M.tthiblo Agan was married at her parents’ home in New York to J. Frank Aldrich of Washington, D. (!., formerly member of Congress from Chicago. Miss Hull) Cardie Long, niece of Secretary of the Navy John D. Lung and a well-known singer, died at her home in Dorchester, Mass. She had been ii) with pneumonia. A. J. Schroth, n bookkeeper in the First National Hank of Birmingham, Pittsburg, was arrested by United States Marshal Leonard, charged with the embezzlement of $35,00(1 of the bank s funds, m<leorge Ellsworth linn s, a New York boy at tile Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Conn., and bis chum, Otis Sawyer of Montclair, N. J., were drowned while canoeing in Lake Wononsaskaparuok. Both were from wealthy families. Because his parents objected to his marriage to Anna Linberg, Frederick J. Fisher shot his sweetheart and himself at Elmira. N. V. They were found dead in the mad. In Fisher’s right hand was a revolver, two chambers of which were empty. Exporters will no longer be required to affix revenue stamps to export bills of lading. New York exporters claim that they have paid SIO,O<M) in such revenue during the three years the act has been in ( ffcct. It has been ded a red unconstitutional and the S4O,(XX) will be refunded. The huge dam in the Westfield river, holding hack the water in the great reservoir at Middleficld, Mass., broke, an 1 the deluge swept down the valley with tremendous force. People living below the dam wen* warned in the astern oa that it would probably go out, and they hurried to the hills. The rush of water carried away a number of buildings and about twenty bridges! Snow from ten to twenty-four inches in Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, accompanied by rain and high winds, created havoc in the cities, destroying communication. stalling trains, endangering crops and threatening devastating Hoods ill the valley districts, in Pittsburg 50,000 men were made idle an 1 property loss of $3,000,000 was inflicted by the water. Much damage is reported from Cleveland, Cincinnati and other Ohio points, New York, West Virginia and Kentucky.