Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1901 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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C. Arthur Pearson, London publisher, has arrived in New York. Martin J. Tighe of New York killed hfs young wife and attempted suicide. Chocolate factory of Runkel Brothers, in New York, was burned, the loss being $250,000. Negro in a red shirt waist was mobbed and partly stripped in Madison Square, New York. Rev. Thomas F. Kennedy, D. D., of Overbrook, Pa., has been appointed rector of the American College in Rome by the Pope. Samuel P. Lcvenberg, aged 18, of New York, has discovered the secret of wireless telephony, working at nights after his day's toil was done. John Biddle, charged with the robbery and subsequent killing of Grocer Thos. D. Kahuey a,t Pittsburg, was convicted of murder in the first degree. United States transport tipped over in a dry dock in Erie basin, killing one man and injuring twenty-five others. Caused by careless placing of bilge blocks. Ferryboat Northfield collided with propeller Mauch Chuuk off Staten Island slip and sank. Over 200 passengers rescued, but many believed to have perished. Senator T. C. Platt of Cx'cw York, broken by ill health and family bereavements, announces that under no conditions will be again be a candidate for the Senate. The Empire Theater at Lynn, Mass., was destroyed by fire, causing a loss on the building of $50,000, fully insured, nnd losses to occupants amounting to about SIO,OOO, partly insured. John Wanamaker offered Philadelphia $2,500,000 for street railroad franchise voted by councils practically as free grant to company in which prominent politicians are said to be interested. William 11. Young, the mechanic who worked out and adapted the ideas of Elias Howe, inventor Of the sewing machine, died in the poorhouse at Bridgeport, Conn., of consumption and alcoholism. About 120 machinists of the Snow Steam Pump works at Buffalo, N. Y.; who have been out since May 20, returned to work. Neither side will state the nature of the agreement under which the men resumed. A. M. Townsend, agent in New York of the Hongkong and Shanghai corporation, received a cable message saying that the 250,000 Mexican dollars stolen from the company on May 24 at Singapore had been recovered in Ceylon. A fire which started on the dock at the foot of Ferry street, on the Niagara river front, nt Buffalo, destroyed two elevators, a large (lour mill, the ticket office and a part of the dock of the International Ferry Company. The total loss will be in the neighborhood of $210,000.