Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1895 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

James Gibbous, a prominent capitalist of Cleveland, has undergone an operation for appendicitis at Portland, Me., and is reported to have an- even- chance for- recovery. Fire at Coney Islijnd caused a loss of $200,000. Tlfg lltow»iaSofce--out in a building attached to a large toboggan slide in; Sea Beach walk opposite Felttuan’s Hofei. General Freight Agent 'Wight, of' the Baltimore road, was found guilty in the United States District Court at Pittsburg. violnting the interstate commerce law in granting freight rebates. At Providence, It.. 1., a two and a half Btbry~woodeiv Tenement- house, owned by Joseph- Lemoine. and occupied by several families, collapsed, and three persons were killed and eleven injured. It is thought two of the latter are fatally hurt. The building had been raised and workmen were building another story beneath it. Julius A. Palmer,, the New York correspondent who went to the Hawaiian Isift uds three months ago, has arrived in San Francisco. He believes that there wilt soon be a crisis there, and, that the end caii only be the restoration of the monarcliicnl form of government. He says there never will be harmony until the monarchy is Restored and Princess Kaiulani placed upon the throne.

The syndicate of capitalists living in Haverhill, Mass., who bought the Good Hone mine, near Riverside. Cal., nearly a year ago for $250,000, have come to the conclusion that they have paid too much for the property. They now desire the courts to aid them in throwing off #109,000 from the purchase price. The Eastern men claim that when they bought the property they were duped outrageously by means of the old device of “salting.”

James W. Murray,'assistant stage manager of Dave Henderson’s “Aladdin Jr.” company, took a long drink of absinthe Thursday afternoon in his room at No. 270 West Thirty-eighth street, New York, pat down at a table and criod like a child, wrote farewell notes, calmly drew" a revolver from his hip pocket, thrust it inside his vest, shouted “Good-by,” and in the presence of two of his most intimate friends delibernteiy tircd a bullet into his heart. Murray was 23 years old and went to New York six weeks ago from Chicago, where a widowed mother lives. One of the letters writteu Q by Murray was to his two friends, as follows: “What I am about to do will cause you to think. Your troubles have been my troubles: my troubles belong to me. We have had good times and all tlm«t, but this is my time.” Another letter was addressed, “To whom it may concern,” as follows :_“Tliis_ or these letters will convince any. jury that no blame is attached to my friends.” The dead man's friends knew he had been brooding over some secret trouble. They guessed he had had. a love affair on hand, and that he had been jilted. But they never questioned him in that direction.