Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1902 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

Bernard E. Brown, a jeweler, was murflered in his store at Rochester, N. Y. Three letters have been received by Gov. Odell of New York threatening him with assassination. A transfer money pouch, containing probably SI,OOO, was stolen from the Adams Express depot office at Hartford, Conn. Michael and John Fisher, brothers, were suffocated by gas while at work in the blast furnace of the Tidewater Steel Company at Chester, Pa. « A farmer and wife living near New York have received a legacy of $5,000 from a man whom, as a hungry wanderer, they befriended sixteen years ago. The business portion of Edinboro, Pa., was swept by fire the other night, several Important business buildings being destroyed. The damage amounts to about $35,000. The town was entirely without fire protection. _ Mrs. Honora Sweeney of Saratoga Springs, N. Y„ aged 55 years, fell dead at the funeral of her husband, Jeremiah Sweeney. The service was stopped and a joint funeral of husband and wife whs held the next day. That cancer can successfully be treated by means of the X-ray has again been demonstrated by Dr. C. E. Skinner in New Haven, Conn., who has just cured L. S. Manville after a course of treatment of five weeks’ duration. There was an explosion of gas at Maple Hill colliery, near Gilberton, Pa. Two miners are missing and probably dead and two others were injured. A naked lamp in the hands of one of the missing men ignited a pocket of gas while making an investigation. In a statement made to the selectmen of Wellesley, Mass., former Town Treasurer Albert Jennings, who was arrested on a charge of forging a note for $5,000, admits that he is guilty both of forgery and embezzlement and that the amount involved is $25,000. ' ‘ George Kline, accused of the murder of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Caroline Klein, was acquitted in Baltimore, Md., on the ground of insanity. Klein knocked the woman down and kicked her to death because she threatened to have him arrested for abusive language. It now appears that an important reason why the banks in a recent week showed only half as large an increase in cash as the known movements seemed to indicate is that considerable amounts had been lodged in Jersey City to cover the day when personal property was declared in New York City. Postmaster Richard Barber of Hallstead, Pa., is dead as a result of handling mail that contained the germs of smallpox. This is the opinion of local physicians. Postmaster Barber is believed to have contracted the contagion by handling mail which came from an infected town and had escaped fumigation. What is pronounced to be a meteorite has been picked up at Field Point Park, Greenwich, Conn., by Walter Freitag. It is almost heart shaped, eighteen inches across and eight inches thick. It looks like a conglomeration of iron and cobbles, the stones being imbedded so deeply in the metal that they can hardly be released by using a cold chisel.