Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1901 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Town of LineoLn. X. J., was sold at auction for SIO,O<X). % Joseph Cratner, ng.ed 75, was arrested in Philadelphia charged with having seven wives living. Spanish steamer Uriarte No. 4 ran on Winter shoals, near Lewes, Del., and broko in two, but all on hoard were paved The Massachusetts Republican convention will meet at Boston Oct. 4. Gov. Allen of Porto Rico will be invited to preside. A multitude saw Carlisle I). Graham make his fifth successful voyage through the whirlpool rapids at Niagara Falls in u barrel. The condition of Mrs. Jefferson Davis, widow of the President of the Coufed eracy, who is ill at Portland, Me., is reported greatly improved. An explosion in an excursion boat in the Susquehnnna river at the foot of Market street, Sunburj, Pa., killed two boys and injured twelve other persons, two fatally. A farmer named McGrath, living near Brockport, N. Y., killed his wife and then committed suicide. Their bodies » were found in a field. They havo five children, all under 10 years. In Washington the grand jury after several weeks' investigation returned an indictment for murder against Mrs. Ida Bonitic for the alleged killing of James S. Ayres, the young census clerk. The excursion steamer Puritan was burned at its <lo"k at Buffalo. The entire upper works were destroyed, and it will not he possible to repair the boat for this season's business. The damage is estimated at SIO,OOO. James J. Callahan, formerly register eierk in the Springfield, Mass., postofliee, who left June 2, taking with him a number of registered packages and letters, returned from Europe and gave himself up to tile authorities. The Ilyde family of Plainfield, X. J., has incorporated itself. Hereafter the $3,000,000 estate left by Charles Hyde will be known ns the Union County In vestment Company, with his widow, hi* four sons and his daughter as the six stockholders.

Solomon linns, a miner living at YYi>burton, I’a., shot his wife in the back and then sent a bullet into his heart. He died instantly. His wife may recover. Haas was insanely jealous and often threatened to kill his wife because she spoke to other men. Four masked men entered the hotel of Peter Hoke at Yorkville, Pa., and encountered the proprietor and Michael Ritxell and George A. Wnchter, guests. During the fight which followed one of the robbers was shot and killed and Mr. Hoke was wounded in the leg. Three burglars made their escape., A west-bound local freight on the Nickel Plate Railroad, containing two cars of stone to be left at a bridge near Springfield, Pa., undergoing repairs, caus ed the bridge to collapse, and the entire train plunged through, carrying with it the crew and gang of workmen. Five men were killed and eight injured. Cornelius Vuuderbilt, Jr., has achieved another success in his career ns nn inventor. The engineers of the New York Central Railroad thought so well of his boiler and fire-box inventions that upon their advice the company has just placed an order for 1(10 locomotives to be built with the Vanderbilt improvements. A combination of the Pennsylvania Railroad, the American Steamship Liu», the Chesapeake and Ohio, a licet of ocean steamers sailing from Newport News and the majority of the shipping of the great lakes is said to he the object behind the conference recently held in New York by J. I*. Morgan. M. A. Hanna, C. M. Griseom, A. J. Cassatt and I*. A. B. Wideuer. /