Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1896 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

As the result of an explosion of a gasoline stove in a Brooklyn tenement house Wednesday Mrs. Rebecca Cohen, Carl Cohen, Solomon Cohen and Mrs. Pastern were so badly burned that they died soon afterward. Two other children were also seriously burned. Dr. Paul -Haupt, bead of the Semitic department of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Aid., started Monday lor Leip•lc to direct the work on a new polychromatic edition of the Old Testament The edition will be in twenty parte. Dr. Haupt is the editor-in-chief. A rabbinical

supplement edited by S, Scbechter of Cambridge\nd M. Friedman of Vienna will be addecbtqjthe The derailment ol car at" tached to the New York accoiwmodatiori train on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad Thursday resulted in the death of W. J.'Down, a jeweler of Boston, and J. E. Long of Watertown. The eccident oectm ed as the train was entering the depot in Boston, and is said to have been caused by an unlocked ■witch. H. J. Sheldon, an engineer of Mansfield, Mass., and Michael Carrahan of Providence, R. 1., were badly injured. Both men will recover. H. H. Holmes was hanged at Philadelphia Thursda- morning. The drop fell at 10:12, It was not until a half hour later that he was pronounced dead.' His neck was broken by the fall., The marvelous nerve of the man never deserted him to the very end. Even on the scaffold he was probably the coolest person in the solemn assemblage. He proclaimed his innocence of any murder. He declared that the only wrong doing in the taking of human life for which he could be held responsible consisted in the death of the two women who -bad died as the”, result of criminal operations at his hands. Ije did not nrime these victim^.