Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1901 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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H. O. Armour, the multimillionaire packer of Chicago and New - York, died very suddenly at Saratoga, N. Y. Miss Maud Willard of Canton, Ohio, lost her life in an effort to navigate the whirlpool rapids at Niagara Falls in a barrel. The Sheldon House, the largest hotel in Ocean Grove, N. J., was totally destroyed by fire. The guests escaped. The loss is heavy, there being only $16,0C0 insurance. | The Northwestern Hotel at Military road and Lansing street, Buffalo, has been destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at S4O,(XX). Pipeman Frank Fites was buried beneath fulling debris and badly injured. President William McKinley was twice shot Friday afternoon while holding a public reception on the grounds of the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo. The assassin, Leon Czolgosz, a Cleveland anarchist, was arrested. Mrs. Charles Snyder, nged 25 years, was shot and instantly killed nt her home In New Haven, Conn. Her husband is under arrest on a charge of murder. He was intoxicated, and he, too, had in some way received a bullet in the wrist. Thieves broke into the postoffice at Lansdowne, Pa., dynamited the safe and escaped with stamps valued at $1,590, leaving untouched $9,000 worth which they overlooked. Not a clew on which the police can work was left behind. Miss Jennie R. Ewing, head of th? hosiery department of Boggs & Buhl an I prominent in church work, met almost instant death in a runaway accident at Pittsburg. Miss Ewing jumped and alighted on her head, fracturing the skull. The steamer Twilight, which plies between Trenton, N. J., and Philadelphia, was sunk in the Delaware river, but, fortunately, none of the 300 and odd passengers was drowned. The steamer is supposed to have struck a rock at Perriwig bar. President McKinley delivered a speech of world-wide-importance at the Buffalo exposition, Reciprocity was his message to Europe, while he declared this government must build the isthmian canal, anil that the American merchant marine must be encouraged. Grief over the shooting of President McKinley and the subsequent worry over his condition and prospects of recovery, led Orlando D. Van ('amp, on? of the most prominent men of Erie County, Pa., to kill himself. He blew off his head with a shotgun. The Haddington African Baptist Church, a small frame structure in Philadelphia, was destroyed by fire. Rev. N. 11, Hester, the pastor, was arrested charged with setting fire to the edifice. Mr. Hester whs suspended by the elders about a month ago. Hart D. Munson, a prominent Republican politician of Connecticut, left New Haven for Mexico four weeks ago, expecting to be away for two weeks. As nothing has been heard from him and he carried a considerable amount of money, his friends are alarmed. John D. Lankenau, the well-known Philadelphia philanthropist and member of the Drexel family, who died recently, left upward of $1,500,000 to be divided equally between the German Hospital of that city and the Mary J. Drexel Home for Aged Patients of the hospital. The climax to a dinner party given by Mr. and Mrs. Albert E. Peters, at their home in New York City, came when Mrs. Peters deliberately walked to the sideboard, filled a liquor glass with carbolic acid, and facing her guests, drained the glass. Her action, it is said, was brought about by a reproof from her husband before the rest of the party.