Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1901 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

Howard Gould will build at Sand Point, L. 1., an imitation of Kilkenny Castle. The Wakefield, Mass., Baptist Church has extended a unanimous call to Hev. 11. A. Heath of Keokuk, lowa, to become its pastor. Steamer Baltimore foundered in Lake Huron, and twelve of the crew, including the captain and his wife, perished. The storm caused many lake wrecks. Fire gutted three floors of the big wine warehouse at the East India wharf, Brooklyn, N. Y., belonging to the Sonoma Wine Company. The loss is estimated at $250,000. William Woodlmll, a farmer residing at Laurel, L. 1., shot and killed Martha Williamson, a neighbor, nnd then committed suicide. Just what led to the tragedy has not yet been made clear. Herman Oeiriehs on a recent trip from New York to Hail Francisco, took by accident an overdose of strychnine that came near to ending his career and incidentally his iuterest in the Fair millions. Frank Herny, son of h Methodist clergyman, shot and kilied Charles Vanderlyn at Greenfield, N. Y. Heroy was drunk and was abusing his uncle, James Heroy, an aged cripple, and Yanderlyn interfered. The great ship, armor plate and gun combination of the Vickers .Maxim Company of England and-the William Cramp Shipbuilding Company and the Bethlehem Steel Urfmpany of this country bus been practically completed. The International League of Press Clubs Benevolent Association has filed articles of incorporation in Union County, New Jersey. The association will erect a home at New Orange, N. J., for aged and indigent newspaper workers. The five West Point cadets dismissed recently—Bowlb.v, Cleveland, Keller, Linton and Mahaffey—will not appeal for clemency to the War Department. They have entered the service of the New York and Bermudez Asphalt Company.

Giovo Buttaeavaello was convicted in White Plains, N. Y., of having buried his own child while the baby was alive. The crime was committed at Hastings on the Hudson. The murderer was sentenced to nine years and ten months iu State prison. A sensational suicide following a desperate attempt at murder took place at a Philadelphia hotel when John A. Jenkins of Brooklyn, N. Y., attempted to kill a young woman named Mae Barber and Then blew out his brains while in the grasp of a policeman. Ernest Button, colored, who pleaded guilty to administering poison to William Eliegood, his father-in-law, with murderous intent, was sentenced at Wilmington, Bel., to receive sixty lashes, stand one hour in the pillory, be imprisoned four years and pay n tine of $5,900. Two crowded electric cars racing toward each other for a switch while running at the rate of forty miles an hour collided near Greenbush. near Albany, N. Y., with terrific force. Five persons were killed and more than a score injured, at least two fatally and others seriously. • Bavid Reynolds, a farmer living two miles from Schenectady, N. Y., has been uiunlfiTtl In his Until. Ills head was smashed to a pulp with an ax, which was found near by. Reynolds was miserly and wealthy and it has always been believed he carried large sums in his boots. Fifteen of the sixteen members of the crew of the Norwegian bark Elsie were drowned by the sinking of that vessel as the result of a collision in a dense fog off Sable Island with the Wilson liner Ohio. The survivor, Christian Pontoon, 10 years old, was brought into Boston on the Ohio. Mrs. George Wendt of Guttenbcrg, N. J., has gone to New York to have specialists make an X-ray examination of her stomach. She says she swallowed a lizard twelve years ago while drinking a glass of water. She believes the animal is still alive within her and claims that every time she changes her died the lizard makes a vigorous protest. Little Madeline Edison, the 12-year-old daughter of Thomas A. Edison, the wizard of Menlo Park, is the latest proposed victim of kidnapers. Recently Mr. Edison received a letter in which a demand was made for a very large sum of money to be placed in a lonely spot in the Orange mountains. The result of a refusal to comply with the demand was to be that Madeline would be kidnaped.