Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1901 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Straw hat manufacturers 1 of New York and Baltimore -will form a combine. Buffalo ministers have dropped their fight against Sunday opening of the exposition. Prof. Arthur O. Lovejoy of Stanford University has resigned as a result of Prof. Ross' dismissal. The puddling department at the Wilkes Rolling mills, Sharon, Pa., has resumed operations, giving employment to a large force of hands. Mrs. Mary Sankey, mother of Ira D. Sankey, the famous evangelist and singer, died at her home in Newcastle, Pa. She was 90 years old. ** A six-story brick warehouse at 110 Chestnut street, Philadelphia, occupied by Charles Webb & Co., of wool, was destroyed by fire. Loss, $75,(XX). The torpedo boat Barney, built at the Bath, Me., iron works, on her preliminary trial trip made 29.3 knots, the contract requirements being but 28 knots an hour. 11. (4. Grant, who was arrested at Hastings, Neb., in .March last, charged with robbing mail boxes, and who escaped from the officers, was rearrested at Buffalo, N. Y. Frances Raymond, an actress, committed suicide by inhaling gas to-day in her home in New York. Miss Raymonds rttal name was .Mrs. Schaffer. Her husband died ten years ago. A double homicide occurred in the town of Warren, N. Y. The victims were Benjamin Hoyt and Mrs. John C. \\ allace. Hoyt murdered Mrs. Wallace and was afterward shot by the woman's husband. The Temple Iron Company, which is controlled by the J. Pierpont Morgan syndicate, is said to be negotiating for the purchase of the West Eml Coal Company at Mocanaqua, I’d. The property is a valuable one.

Daniel Russell of Cleveland made an attempt to steal his own child in the streets of Erie, Pa., and caused a riot in which 150 people took part. They forcibly took the child away from him and he was hurried to the police station. Miss Louise Johnson, who rs prominent in society as the adopted daughter of L. M. Borers, the manager of the Rockefeller interests on the great lakes, has caused a sensation in Binghamton, N. Y., by martying George Thayer, .Mr. Bowers' coachman. AU the union freight handlers employed by trie Hartford division of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, aad all but two or three of those employed by the Boston and Maine Railroad !t> Springfield, Mass., struck for higher Wages. In Albany, N. Y., Emily Weeks, out of love for a man, it is charged, threw carbolic avid in her mother's face to cover up the crime of having forged her mother*'* name to checks. Mrs. Weeks is much disfigured, but it is believed that she will hot lose the sight of her eyes. At Newburyport, Mass., Arthur P. MorrisuC, 27 years old, died under peculiarly Pad circumstances. The previous evening he called on Miss Lydia Lisson ami presented her with a ring and thus sealed their engagement. While they were still talking Mr. Morrison was stricken With paralysis. Ainos Sterling, colored, was convicted of murder in the first degree for the killing of Roy Wilson White, the young University of Pennsylvania professor, who was robbed and beaten to death with an ir7,n bar oft a street in West Philadelphia. Two other negroes, Henry Ivory and Charles Perry, have also been convicted and are under sentence to be hanged.