Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1898 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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The twenty-round bout at Troy, N. Y., between Steve O’Donnell and jppnroy resulted in a victory for Conroyon a foul in the seventeenth round. Two Italian laborers were instantly killed and another seriously injured at Fondas Basin, six miles east of Schenectady, N. Y., by the breaking of a derrick beam while it was in use lifting stone. Mrs. Jennie Diederich, 22 years of age, of 004 West Forty-ninth street, New York, was drowned in three indies of water in a small washtub, in which she was washing some clothing. She was seized with an apoplectic fit. The new Pennsylvania capitol commission awarded the contract for the erection of the new building to Allen B. Rorke of Philadelphia for $325,000. There were five other bidders. The sum appropriated by the Legislature for the new building was $550,000. . George Parsons Lathrop, essayist and novelist, of New London, Conn., died at Roosevelt Hospital, New York. Mr. Lathrop was received at the hospital suffering from a complication of diseases. His case was not considered at all desperate, but his temperature rose suddenly, and he died before there was time to summon his wife to his bedside. To while away the time during a lieover at the Consolidated Traction Company's Craig street barn in Pittsburg, Pa., Motorman R. J. Brooks and his conductor, Martin Flaherty, ‘‘put on the gloves.” Brooks was the better boxer and struck Flaherty many blows in quick succession. Suddenly Brooks called time, and, throwing up his hands, fell back dead. He had died from heart disease caused by the excitement and exertion. At the meeting of the home mission board of the Reformed Church at New Kensington, Pa., the Rev. Paul Somerlotte, harbor missionary at New York, charged that the immigrant inspectors and hotelkeepers in New York were in a combination to bleed immigrants and that they had robbed them of thousands of dollars. Mr. Somerlotte says the eating and lodging house privileges for the entertainment of immigrants are let by Government officials to certain parties by contract. He alleges that by on arrangement between certain hotel keepers and some of the immigrant inspectors any immigrant who has money is detained on various pretexts by the inspectors and is kept at one of the immigrant hotels and is held ns long as his money lasts. When his last dollar'is gone he is turned out; if he makes a fuss he is promptly pickl'd up as a pauper immigrant and sent buck to the old country. Mr. Somerlotte says there are hundreds of such cases. The bonrd appointed S. B. Yockey of Columbus, O,; J. J. Lebearmnn of Louisville, 0., and C. M. Bouss of Meadville, Pa., a committee to investigate the charges. In Boston, Mass,, lovers of liberty in thousands did homage to patriots’ day, the observance of the State holiday being general. The ceremonies began at midnight, when Sexton James J. Rudd and George Wilson, the actor, bung out the two lanterns from the belfry of the North Church, and then, at Mr. Wilson’s request, they went to Charlestown and took a look back at the twin lights. At sunrise the North Church chimes ushered in the day with patriotic airs and iu the forenoon the Daughters of the Revolution held services in the church commemorative of Paul Revere’s famous ride. During the afternoon there were numerous meetings of patriotic societies, the largest attended being that of the Sons of the American Revolution, at which Bishop William Lawrence nnd Mayor Josiah Quincy made rousing patriotic speeches bearing on the Spanish-American crisis. Another feature of the afternoon observance was the exercises at the grave of Paul Revere, where flowers were placed i'i abundance by Paul Revere Chapter. Daughters of the Revolution. The old historic town of Lexington was in holiday garb and held thousands of visitors. At Concord, in addition to the firing of a salute and the ringing of bells, a public meeting was held in First Parish Church, with addresses by Charles H. Walcott, Thomas J. Gargan and Alfred S. Roe. The town of Arlington, formerly the old revolutionary town of Menotoiny, likewise commemorated with appropriate exercises the anniversary of the events of April 19, 1775.