Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1901 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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I Mayor of Waltham, Mass., hau ordered the police to slop ipiblic whist parties. One man wai killed and two fatally injured at the Peiinsylvania Bridge works at Heaver Falls by thejfallitig of u 33ton steel girder. > Vic'- President Roosevelt is now a Master Mason, having taken the third degree in Matinecock Lodge, No. 800, at Oyster Bay, L. I. Francis I). Beard, the millionaire horse owner, died at his home nt Lakewood, N. J, Mr. Beard underwent an'operation for appendicitis a few day ago. J. Frank Condon, for twenty years official court reporter for Blair and Cambria Counties, Pennsylvania, committed suicide at Altoona, Pa., by blowing out Ida brains. A gang of negroes invaded the home of Hiram McMillan, in a lonely place near Oliphant, Pa., shot the man twice, mor tally wounding him, and assaulted his wife, who is now in a critical condition/ Fred Dickson, a well-known singer and a member for, years of the Bostonians, was found hanging in his cottage at Hough's Neck, Mass. Mr. Dickson's friends can give no reason for his suieide. Edward Kogers, while intoxicated, attempted to walk the band rail of the 200foot bridge spanning the Oswegatchie river’at Gouvenier, N. Y. He fell off and was drowned in sight of his companions. Fire destroyed tin* machine shop of Silver & Gay, together with the works of the Lowell Model Company and North Chelmsford Supply Company, at North Chelmsforil. Mass. The losfs is estimated qt SIOO,OOO. The four months' strike of the silk girls jit Scranton, Pa., was terminated by the soft silk workers of the Sampioit voting for the resumption of work. In resuming work the girls are granted many concessions; , The Branch & Callahan mill, four storehouses and 5U0.0U0 feet of lumber were destroyed by fire nt Saranac Lake. N. Y. Several dwelling houses and two freight cars were damhged. The total loss will be $ 150,(Mat. Murk Thomas Hayes was hanged at Uniontown, Pa., for the murder on July 4, 1899, of his old neighbor, William Lowdon. The shooting followed a qudrerl, but Hayes afterward claimed that he had no intention of killing Lowdon.