Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1902 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Gov. Crane heads the Massachusetts subscription list for the McKinley memorial to be erected nt Canton, Ohio. J. Hartley Merrick, of Philadelphia, has been elected grand alpha of the Phi Kappa Sigua fraternity. Two young sons of Matthew Exstein broke through thin ice while skating at Southington, Conn., ami were drowned. Andrew Carnegie has offered Melrose, Mass., $25,000 for a public library under the usual conditions. The city will accept. Faul Blouet (Max O'Roll), the French author and lecturer, underwent a successful operation for appendicitis in New York. Burglars entered Parish & Stratton's dry goods store at Medina, N. Y., and carried away over $1,500 worth of selected silks. * D. Raymond Noyes, a freshman at Yale, was Severely hurt while toboggaucoasting ut Lenox, Mass. His home is iu St. Paul, Mian. An increase of from -1 to 12 per cent in the wages of about 45,000 trainman will be made soos by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. The Astronomical and Astrophysieal Society of America, iu session at Washington, lias re-elected Prof. Simon Newcomb as president. New statute abolishing common law marriages went into effect in New York with the new year. It recognizes marriages by civil contract. While hauling in a seiu,e off Fort Hamilton, New York bay. a fisherman captured and killed a full-grown female fur seal. It is >aid to be the first fur seal ever caught in those waters. A brilliant White House ball, the first of the kind since the days of the Grant regime, was given in honor of the Washington debut of Miss Alice Roosevelt. Seven hundred guests were present, many cities being represented. Margaret O'Connor, aged 02, and her two graudchildreu, John and Annie Drummond, aged 3 nn 1 <i years, were overcome by illuminating gas at Germantown, I'n. Mrs. O’Connor and the girl are dead and the boy cannot recover. Fire in the four-story fiat building call ed the Hamnett block, at the corner of Franktown avenue and Wood street, Brushton, Pittsburg, gutted the building, destroyed the household goods of several families aud caused a loss of over $50,000. The First National Bank of Glassport, Pa., was robbed the other night of $3,500. The vault was blown open by nitroglycerin. The rear of the building was wrecked. A package of paper money containing SIO,OOO was overlooked by the burglars. Three trains were piled up in a wreck just west of “N. Q." tower on the Pennsylvania Railroad, about seven miles west of Johnstown, Pa. One. man was killed and four badly injured, several others sustaining slight injuries. The killed and injured were railroad men. J. B. Polk, the old-time actor, was found dead in his bed at Brevis Hotel, Baltimore, apoplexy ta-ing the cause of his death. Mr. Polk had been on the stage for forty years when he retired, a few years ago, to become 'president of the Chesapeake Brewing Company. The $3,500 diamond necklace, supposed to have been shipped by Messrs. Shaw & Berry of Washington to Joseph Frankels & Sons of Now York, and which was thought to have been stolen, has been found. An error of a trusted shipping clerk was responsible for all the trouble. The captains and crews of the steamer Sparta and the yacht Parker, comprising some of the best known yachtsmen on the New Jersey coast, have been missing for several days. It is believed that they were caught iu the storms of the past few days off the cod banks, about twelve miles from shore.