Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1901 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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The will of Charles 11. Hayden, the late retired manufacturer of wall paper, was filed in Boston. It gives away *300,000 In public bequests. William H. Crane, the actor, was badly hurt by a fall at the Imperial Hotel, New York. He sprained his ankle severely and also wrenched a muscle of his leg. Private services over body of President McKinley were held Tit the Milburn house In Buffalo on Sunday, after the widow, near friends and public associates- had viewed the remains. Theodore Roosevelt took the onth of office ns President in the house of Ansley Wicox in Buffalo. He pledged himself to continue absolutely unbroken the policy of President McKinley. The wife of Lieut. Peary, the arctic explorer, arrived in Portland, Me., having met her husband in Payer harbor, after waiting all winter. She says he will make another dash for the pole next summer. The schooners Cassic F. Bronson, Philadelphia, for Bangor, Me., and Lnvinia Campbell, Boston, for Philadelphia, were in collision at the Overfalls, near Delaware Breakwater, Del. Both boats were badly damaged. The First Colored Bank North, the only financial institution for colored persons in the North, opened its doors at l<r24 South Twentieth street, Philadelphia. It was incorporated July 18, 1001, by the First Northern Colored Co-opera-tive Banking Association.

Learning that a man who had left Berlin, N. 11., for Nqw York had declared that he was on his way to Washington to kill Vice-President Roosevelt, Chief of Police Youngeliss telegraphed the chief of police of New York and the man was arrested. He is a foreigner. The Chicago limited on the West Shore Railroad, west bound, was wrecked at Eastwood, three miles east of Syracuse, N.' Y. No one was seriously hurt. The cause was a misplaced switch. The locomotive, baggage ear and three coaches left the track and were overturned. Three explosions occurred in the works of the American-Schnltze Powder Company in Oakland, N. J. Five men were killed. The first explosion was that of the boiler. Following almost immediately were two explosions, one in the magazine, the other in the mixing house. The latter is supposed to have been caused by a spark. A big Maltese cat was the cause of a fire that destroyed Richard Bartholomew’s house in Hartford township, Pa. When the family was at supper the cat jumped upon the table, knocking a large library lamp on the floor. It exploded and the fire spread so rapidly that only a small portion of the household goods were saved. Bartholomew's loss is *3,000.