Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1902 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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At Mount Holly, N. J., Mrs. Howard Haines was acquitted of the charge of murdering her stepdaughter. . E. Lawrence Fell of Philadelphia was elected president by the Phi Kappa Psi national convention at Pittsburg, Martin A. Knapp of the interstate commission in an address at (Philadelphia said trusts bad come to stfty. Organized labor won a victory when Ignatius A. Sullivan, clerk in a clothing «tore, was elected Mayor of Hartford, Conn. W. H. Lane, colored, was sentenced to death at Philadelphia for the murder of Mrs. Jardjne and daughter, three days before. Jewels valued at over $5,000 lost by Mrs. Harriet Blaine Beal of Washington on a train en route to Florida htsve bedn returned to her. Committee of Massachusetts House re- ■ ported adversely on an appropriation of ' $25,000 for a military statue of the late Benjamin F. Buller. The United States Steel Corporation has closed a contract with the Bessemer Furnace Association for 225,000 tons of Bessemer°pig iron for delivery in 1903. New York company will develop fine natural park and erect $500,000 casino near Irving-on-Hudson, establishing a summer resort that will rival Monte Carlo. An attempt by anarchists’to distribute pamphlets at the Altgeld memorial meeting in New York brought prompt suppression at the hands of the police. Three men were arrested. Albert 'J'. Patrick, who was convicted March 26 of the murder of William Marsh Rice of New York, was sentenced to be put to death in the electric chair at Sing Sing prison May 5. John Merely, a painter, fell seventy feet from a scaffold at Morristown, N. J., into a pond. The water was only ten feet deep, bnt it broke Merely's fall, and it is believed he will recover. For the second time within a year the Barker, Williams & Company’s furniture Installment bouse, at Pittsburg, burned, causing $40,000 loss. Other tenants suffered $30,000 loss. All are insured. Consumption, believed to be the direct result of years of practice among sufferers from lung diseases, has compelled Dr. Clinton H. Catherwood, one of the bestknown physicians in New York, to give up his home and practice and go to Colorado Springs. Two men were killed ami one was seriously injured, a number of cars were wrecked and many cattle killed in a freight wreck at Crag Dell, Pa., on the Allegheny Valley division of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The accident was caused by a landslide. Col. John McKee, aged 81, one of the wealthiest colored men in the country, died in Philadelphia. His estate is worth about $1,500,000. At the time of his death he owned between 300 and 400 houses in Philadelphia. He was the founder and owner of McKee City, N. J. As a result of the breaking of the will of the late Henry B. Plant by his widow and the consequent eagerness of the heirs to divide the $17,000,000 estate, the famous Plant system of railways and steamships practically has been sold to tho Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company. The main building, gymnasium and chapel of St. John's Military Academy at Manlius, N. Y., one of the best known I military institutions in the country, were destroyed by tire. The 1.500 cadets showed excellent discipline throughout, even saluting the flag at the sound of the bugle at sundown. Ellen Johnson, aged 21 years, of Chicago, who has been visiting friends at Worcester, Mass., for about two months, has been committed to the Worcester insane hospital as wildly insane. Her friend, Mrs. Hanson, states that the girl worried continually over a faithless sweetheart. James Regel of Titusville, Pa., found a long-lost son in Akron, Ohio, in the person of Emmet Regel. Eighteen years ago the boy’s mother died and the child was taken West with its grandparents and uncle. All trace of the boy was lost to the father until the other day. Regvl had understood his father was dead. Although ho fell 300 feet down n mine shaft at Hibernia. N. J., Andrew Michaliquo, a miner, is still alive and the chances are good for his recovery. There win no obstruction in the shaft and the miner bounded from side to side. When his companions found him breathing they were almost as much surprised as if they had seen the dead arise. He was hoist;ed up and taken to a hospital. One of i his legs is broken and his head is cut.