Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1901 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Maurice Robinson of New York is planning an automobile trip around the world. Italy has made representations to the United States regarding the lynching of two Italians at Erwin. Mass. A fierce electrical storm at Grove City, Pa., resulted in four deaths and the severe injury of three other persons. Infernal jpachine sent by mail to a Brooklyn city employe exploded, tearing off the left hand of Edgar Schroeder. John Gilcofsky and Anthony Chickfay of Shenandoah, Pa., were instantly killed by a fall of coal at Maple Hill colliery. Gottlieb Faher, well-known landscape artist, was shot and killed in front of his home in New York by Thomas McGurk. Hamburg-American liner Deutschland has made a new record for the trip from New York to Plymouth—s days 11 hours and 5 minutes. The Shelter for Homeless Girls in Syracuse, N. Y., was destroyed by fire. Forty-one inmates escaped in their night clothes by the fire escapes. David McCann, aged 19, son of a wealthy San Francisco man, was killed in New Haven, Conn., while stealing a ride on top of a Pullman car. Anna Kowalchik, arrested by Cleveland police for the murder of her 1-day-old infant, confessed to the crime. She was taken to Johnstown, Piy, her former home. Gen. Daniel Butterfield, former assistant United States Treasurer at New York, died at his country home, Craigside, near Cold Springs, N. Y. He had been suffering from partial paralysis. A widow survives him. Francis Schlatter, once well known as a “divine healer," was sent to St. Elizabeth's hospital for the insane at Washington. The commitmentT was temporary, and further inquiry into his mental condition will be made. “Jack” and "Ed” Biddle were sentenced to death at Pittsburg, Pa., for the murder of Thomas D. Kahney April 12 last, and Walter Dorman was adjudged guilty of murder in the first degree for his part tn the homicide. The village of Six Mile Ferry, near Homestead, Pa., is excited over the find ing of a woman's arm in a ravine near the town, and later the discovery in some bushes of a silk dress, minus a sleeve. Bloodstains were also found on the grass in the vicinity. Five persons were drowned in Long Island Sound by the capsizing of the yawl-rigged yacht Venitzia of Philadelphia at a point five miles east of Sand’s Point, near the New York and Connecticut line. Two only of those on board the yacht were rescued. At Taunton, fire in the Union Block caused a damage of nearly $150,000. Among those damaged are the Hacks Publishing Company, Pierce's hardware store, E. D. Tisdale, jeweler; H. D. Washburn, undertaker; A. I. Barker, druggist, and Charles Barnard, tailor. While hundreds of citizens were hunting for Agnes JJodges, the missing Smith College girl, her body was accidentally discovered in Birges pond, Bristol, Conn., by William Fitzpatrick, who was bathing. On making a dive into deep water he struck her body, which immediately came to the surface. Morton Starr Creasy of Hartford, Conn., shot and killed his friend and classmate at Yale and the Harvard law school, Sidney Bristol of Battle Creek, Mich., in a bedroom at the home of Cressy’s grandmother in Brattleboro, Vt. It is thought that Bristol was taken for a burglar while walking in his sleep. The full-rigged ship Commodore T. H. Allen, outward bound with 80,000 cases of oil for Hongkong, was discovered to be aground and on fire just outside of Sandy Hook. Word was telegraphed to New York and a number of tugs and fireboats went to her assistance. She was later pulled off, towed inside the hook and anchored near the shore, but sank in seven fathoms of water. The crew of the Allen was taken off.