Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1884 — THE EAST. [ARTICLE]

THE EAST.

John Coyle -was banged fit Gettysburg, Pa., for the murder of Emily Myers. He bore up well until be heard the carpenters erecting his scaffold, when he passed Into an excited condition, which lasted until the drop fe11.... While boating on the Hudson Elver, near Sing Sing, N, V., five persons were run down by a steamer and drowned. 0, H. Deane, a New York lawyer, has been rendered bankrupt by real-estate operations. His liabilities are stated at over $500,' 000, and he has given preferences to two banks, lho Rochester University, and two religious societies. An English syndicate, controlling $25,000,000 capital, has offered $8,000,000 for the Trinity Church Block in New York, desiring to erect thereon a mammoth structure for brokers’ offices, but the prodosition has been rejected. '* “l. ”■ Gainswobth Pettis, a mill owner residing in Lockport Township, near Erie, Pa., who has been a Spiritualist for,some time, was conveyed to an asylum. He be- ' lieved the spirit of Nebuchadnezzar controlled him, and began to feed on herbs and roots Mrs Amelia Barnet cut the throats of her two children, aged 2 years, and 5 months, respectively, at Pittsburgh, Pa., and then, giving the alarm, cut her own throat, and threw herself beside the bleeding babies. All are mortally wounded.