Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1898 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

The board of trustees of the University of Pennsylvania has decided to offer undergraduate courses for women in every way equal to those now open to men, and which nre to lead to*the same degree now given to the latter students. At Montpelier, Vt., the jury in the Mildred Brewster murder trial returned a verdict, finding the defendant not guilty, by reason of insanity. Mildred Brewster was charged with having killed Anna Wheeler, of whom she was jealous, near Montpelier, May 29, 1897. The Pennsylvania limited express ran into a freight train at South Bristol, N, Y, The engineer and fireman of~the express train were seriously hurt, but all of the passengers escaped injury. The engine and four coaches on the express train were derailed ami several freight cars were broken to splinters. Peter Schueher of Venango township, Pa., shot and fatally wounded two men, George Henderson, pathmnster, and Edwnrd Skinner, and then committed; suicide. The shooting was caused by a dispute over cutting down a ditch in front of the murderer’s property. All nre well known and the two former wealthy farmers. Charles Look of Sandy Hook is in the Danbury, Conn., hospital with a broken neck. He lias been living more than a week in that condition. He can breathe and talk, but below his neck he is completely paralyzed and practically dead. His head is placed in a frame and held by a weight. Although his injury is such as to make his case hopeless, there seems to be no immediate danger of his death. The powder magazines at Indian Head, Md., the Government’s gun testing grounds at an isolated joint on the Potomac river, narrowly escaped destruction by the proximity of a tire started supposedly by Spanish spies. For several hours thousands of cords of wood owned by the Government was ablaze, and the officers and men at the proving grounds risked their lives in fighting the fire to save the magazines. The police of Bloomfield, N. J., and citizens generally are greatly wrought up by the actions of vandals, who in the Bloomfield cemetery upset nearly 200 headstones from as many graves and broke monuments and marble slabs, some being ruined. ’Hie most damage jvas done to tile most beautiful part of the cemetery, where the costly stones were not only thrown down and broken, but flowers were uprooted and tossed nbout and the graves were otherwise desecrated. Th,e damage will hot be less than $2,000.