Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1902 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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John D. Rockefeller has given SIOO,000 to the endowment fund of Syracuse (N. Y.) University. Force of 125 physicians raided East Boston and vaccinated entire population, inoculating 15,000 persons. 11. J. Ziegler of Lancaster, Pa., shot his wife at Wellington Hotel in Chicago and then killed himself. Husband feared prosecution for bigamy by another wife in Pennsylvania. Dr. Augustin Thompson of Boston says he has discovered the secret of prolonging human life to 150 years. Asserts priority of discovery of the theory of Prof. Loeb of Chicago. Rev. Frank L. Goodspeed, for seven years pastor of the First Congregational Church at Springfield, Mass., has resigned to accept a call to the Calvary Presbyterinn Church of Cleveland. The coroner's jury found the >Jew York Central Railroad responsible for tunnel disaster and charged officials with faulty management. Engineer and fireman of wrecked train were discharged. Four national banks in Pittsburg, with an aggregate capital of $1,700,000 and a surplus of $435,000, are, according to reliable reports, to be merged into one financial institution under a national charter. After an investigation extending over many weeks, Frank Saxton, supervising immigrant inspector at Ellis Island, New York, was dismissed for neglect of duty. He is a nephew of Mrs. McKinley and has been in office two years. Six persons were killed, over a hundred were injured, and a property loss of over $1,000,000 was caused by explosion at Park avenue shaft of the New York rapid transit tunnel. Murray Hill Hotel was so badly shaken that it is abandoned as unsafe. In the report of the harbor and land commissioners on the proposed canal between Boston harbor and Narragansett Bay, by way of Weymouth, Brockton and Taunton, just sent to the Legislature, the cost of the work is stated to be $57,518,358 for a uniform depth of twenty-five feet and a width of 150 feet at the bottom. A railway mail robbery between Springfield, Mass., and Boston has been reported to the postal authorities at Washington by Postmaster Kinner of West Springfield, who has also notified the United States inspectors at Boston. Conductor A. B. Bartholomew of West Springfield while signaling near Rochdale, Mass., found hundreds of letters along the tracks.