Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1901 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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John George Nicolay, private secretary to President Lincoln, died in Washington, aged 70. J. E. Love, aged 55. a traveling man from Lawrenceburg, Pa., committed suicide with morphine at Winona. Minn. A spark from a locomotive started a fire which caused $100,(MX) damage to the Plymouth, Mass., Cordage Company's plant. Six men, and possibly seven, were killed and seven injured by the explosion of an oil tank of the Essex and Hudson Gas Company at Newark, N. J. A proposition to change the name of the Philippine Islands to the McKinley Islands and thus perpetuate the memory of the murdered President is being formulated in Washington. First trial between Columbia and Shamrock for America’s cup, on Thursday, was a fluke owing to neither yacht being able to finish within the time limit. The Columbia finished ahead. Thomas J. Slaughter, 77 years «Id, a retired millionaire merchant and one of the most extensive growers of roses in the country, died of heart disease at his home, Dellwood, near Madison, N. J. Three men were killed and two seriously injured in a collision of freight trains, head-on, on the Berkshire division of the New York. New Haven and Hartford Railroad at Ding Hill, Conn. The brewery at New Haven, Conn., formerly owned by the M. Weideman & Sons Company, has been totally destroyed by fire, involving a loss of $90,000, upon which there is an insurance of SOO,000. The bureau of health has decided that the pupils of the Syracuse, N. Y., public schools must be examined as to the condition of their health twice a month. The principal object is to guard against contagious diseases. An attempt to wreck the Buffalo flyer on the Pennsylvania Railroad near Montgomery, Pa., was frustrated. A track walker saw some men placing an iron bar in a switch frog. He shot at them frightening them away. Orrville D. Moses, a wealthy resident of Malden, Mass., was found dead in the Baek Bay fens ol’ Boston. It is believed by the police that he was murdered. Considerable money he had in his possession is missing. Sentence of death by electrocution during the week beginning Oct. 28 was pronounced upon Czolgosz, mid then the assassin of President McKinley was removed from Buffalo to Auburn State prison, where the sentence is to be carried out. After a fall of 200 feet from a cliff near Meriden, Conn., and four hours spent hanging by his ankles from the top of a tree, T. Chicles Vincent was found and taken to a hospital in a hay wagon only to die of his terrible injuries. Vincent was 28 years old. The grand jury nt Ovid, N. Y., handed in nine indictments against James B. Thomas, cashier of the Leroy C. Partridge Bank of Ovid, which failed several months ago with liabilities of $750,000. He pleaded not guilty and was released in $2,200 bail, his wife going on his bond. The Epsom and North wood stage was held up by two masked men, one and one-half miles above Northwood Narrows, N. H. One highwayman seized the horses, while the other demanded all the money the driver had. One bandit was beaten off and then the driver whipped up his horses and escaped. Mrs. Louise Nostz, GO years old, of Astoria, L. 1., killed herself and her grandson, Willie Colletti, 0 years old. She had stuffed the keyhole and other apertures in the room with papers and turned on the gas. Four years ago her husband committed suicide and this is believed to have affected her mind.