Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1902 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

Mrs. Hetty Green has left Bellows Falls, Vt., and will live at Cohasset, Mass. A new Rhode Island law requires two years’ residence before application can be made for a divorce. The plant of the Wilson Sash and Blind Company at Olean, N. Y., burned, causing SIOO,OOO loss. The Meteor, Emperor William's new yacht, on her trial spin, proved herself weatherly, easily bandied, and in every way a success. E. D. Mann, former editor and publisher of Town Topics, the well-known New’ Tork society paper, died at Phoenix, Ariz., of consumption. Dr. Thomas Dunn English died at -Newark, N. J. Dr. English, who was a writer of some note, was widely known aa the author of “Ben Bolt.” Mother and daughter were killed and another daughter seriously wounded in Philadelphia by a negro butler who was about to be arrested for larceny. Fire at Boston caused $60,000 loss, riddling two upper stories of the five-story building occupied by Redding, Baird. & Co., artists and workers in leaded and stained glass. A head-on collision occured at San Patch, Md., between Baltimore and Ohio passenger train No. 9 and a freiglif train. Both engines were demolished. Th.ee men were injured. New York Court of Appeals decided that members of labor unions have the right to refuse to work with nonunion men and may strike at any time for reasons which are sufficient to themselves. The six-story building occupied by the George De Keim Saddlery Company and the Joel Baily Davis Company of Philadelphia burned, the sixty girls saving themselves by menus of the tire escapes. An offer of $5,000,000 has been made by a European syndicate for the site of St. Paul's Church, parish-house and cemetery at Broadway and Fulton street, New York. The Trinity corporation refused the offer, Philip Mitchell and his five children were burned to death in their home in Prosser Hollow, a secluded settlement about three miles froiq Johnstown, Pa. Mrs. Mitchell was carried to a neighbor’s bouse very seriously burned. Au epidemic of contagious diseases lias broken out on the battle-ship Illinois, stationed at the Brooklyn navy yard. During the week fifteen sailors have been removed from the vessel to the contagious building at the naval hospital. Albert T. Patrick, convicted of murder in the first degree for plotting the death of Millionaire William Marsh Rico, and awaiting sentence, and Mrs. Addie L. Francis were made husband and wife in the matron's rooms of the Tombs, NewYork. James Robinson, a veteran of the Civil War, aged 70 years old. who has lived a recluse for several years at Linden, near Elizabeth, N. J., was maimed and burned by four men, who dragged him out of bed and demanded that he give up all his money. The three alienists who have examined Miss Jane Toppan. the professional nurse charged with a number of murders by poison at Catauinet, Mass., find that she is insane and was not responsible for her acts. The next step will lie to send the woman to an asylum.

11. C. Copeland, president of the Riverside bank, in New York, complained to the police that 11. G. Bell, receiving teller of the concern, was missing nnd that an examination of his accounts disclosed a shortage of $12,500. He charged him with embezzlement of that sum and asked the police to arrest him. Washington society is exercised been used of the mysterious theft of u handsome wrap belonging to Mine. Dy ns, who entertained the company nt a musicale given by Mrs. Roosevelt nt the White House two weeks ago. In its place was left a dilapidated cloth cape, so shabby that the prinia donna refused to wear it. Her imagination inflamed by reading of the killing of Walter Brooks. Mrs. Annie Isaacs, a jealous young bride of two mouths, tired seven harmless shots at her husbnnd, Harry Isaacs, in New York, in revenge for what she thought were his attentions to young women. Then she killed herself by drinking carbolic acid. At Reading, Pa., a verdict of guilty was returned agninst N. S. Wertheimer of New York, formerly of Reading; Sylvan Friedlander, formerly of Reading, Pa., now of Newark, N. J., nnd Daniel Boger of Newark, charged with conspiracy in burning Wertheimer's shirt waist factory on Sept. 15. 19th), with the view of collecting $65,000 insurance from thirtytwo companies. District Attorney Jerome of New York was asked what he intended to do with Charles F, Jones, valet of Millionaire William Mnrsh Rice, who testified that be killed Rice nt Albert T. Patrick’s request. Mr. Jerome replied: “It is frequently necessary to allow men manifestly guilty to go free. In this case we never could hnve got n conviction without Jones’ testimony, nnd in such cases it is often well to grunt the witness inimuuity.”