Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1901 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Stock brokerage firm of Gurley & Johnson, Washington, has failed. » Mrs. Lyman J. Gage, wife of the Secretary of the Treasury, died at their Washington* residence, after a month’s illness. During an exhibition of hypnotism in Woonsocket, R. 1., a 000-pound stone slipped and crushed tire head of Thomas Bolton, a subject, killing him. Man 70 years oT age, supposed to be William Gardhouse of Ontario, committed suicide by leaping into Niagara falls in the presence of hundreds of visitors. One New York woman cleared SIOO,000 on Northern Pacific during the late excitement, and then returned the check to her broker because"her conscience hurt her. Mrs. L. I. Bonine (denied up the mystery in the killing of young Ayres in Washington, saying he was shot by his own revolver by her while she was protecting herself. Col. Alexander Edwin Sweet, for many years editor- of Texas Siftings, is dead in New York, lie was bora in New Brunswick in 18-11, but went to Texas with his parents when a boy. The jury in.the case of Jacob Wynne, charged with the murder of Rev. Father Charles I*. Riegel in Philadelphia, brought in a verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree. At a negro dance in East Scottdale, I’a.. William Poor shot and killed Ely Sheller. The dead man was carried out into the yard to let the dance proceed. Poor made his escape. Militia at Albany fired on a mob of strikers and sympathizers. A merchaut was killed in front of his store, another citizen and a non-union man fatally wounded and several others more or less hurt. Secret service men discovered a counterfeiting plant in the Moyameusing penitentiary, ia Pennsylvania, where spurious S2O bills wVre being printed and passed oat to confederates who put them into (‘imitation. Dedication of the rail-American Exposition al Buffalo took place Monday, after a parade, partly military and partly civic, with ceremonies fitting the occasion. Vice-President Roosevelt made the principal address. Giogiona Brusoto, an Dalian barber in New York, shot his wife and 11-months-old daughter, and then turned the revolver on himself, shooting himself through the head, dying at once. The child is dead and the mother is in a serious condition. A man whose name is,withheld for the present at his request lias purchased the John Brown homestead in Torrington, Conn., and will in a few days transfer it to the John Brown Association, at the head of which is Dwight ('. Kilbourn of Litchfield, for preservation. Robert Gibbs, 52 years old, superintendent of an iron-molding works in Pittsburg, I’a., and a man of considerable wealth, was found dead in his room in West Twenty-second street, New York, having been asphyxiated by gas. Thorough investigation makes it appear that the death was accidental.

The body of a man found in a house in Ninth avenue, New York, has been identified as that of Rev. Edward S. Phillips of St. Gabriel’s Church, Hazleton, I’a., who recently had a conference with J. Pierpont Morgan in reference to the threatened strike in the iron and coal regions of Pennsylvania, and then mysteriously disappeared. Nearly 20,000 bricklayers in the employ of contractors who are members of the Masons and Builders’ Association have been locked out iu New York. President Otto M. H. Eidlitz of the Masons and Builders’ Association said the lockout was primarily caused by the refusal of the bricklayers’ association to abide by the finding of an arbitration committee concerning a dispute which arose between the masons and the bosses a few weeks ago.