Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1886 — THE EAST. [ARTICLE]

THE EAST.

Governor Him,, of New York, has postponed the execution of Mrs. Roxalana Druse until February 28, to giro the legislature an opportunity to modify th l law of capital punishment in special cages. Unless the existing statute is changed the Governor says the woman must hang. Aided bv her daughter, two sons, and a nephew she beheaded her husband and burned the remains. While mother ami daughter were performing the latter ghastly work the boys were playing checkers in on adjoining room. F. E. Goodhart, of Steading, Pennsylvania, while lounging in a saloon, waß made a raving maniac by a party of friends, who dressed themselves in buffalo robes and rushed at him with uplifted hatchets. ... .Judge Peckham, of the New York Supreme Goylit, has decided that the action of ' the Lecis)wftjre of that Shite last winter in repenliftgdhe charter of the Broadway Street Radwnv Company .of New York City is constitutional. Jacor Mi rth fell on his face at Jersey City while drunk, his nose pressed upon the floor,and he smothered to death;.. The varnish works of Mayer A' Loswen* stein at Long Island City, N. J., were burned, causing a loss of .. .The car works of ScUtdl A King at Middletown, Pa.. were damaged bv lire to the amount of $160,000.