Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1898 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

At Hazleton, Pa., while Andrew RodIra and his wife were away the house in which they lived was burned and their two children, Mary, aged 3 years, and John, 9 months old, perished. .The dead body of a man was found in a freight car which had just arrived at Wilmington, Del., frdm Jersey City. The man is supposed to have been E. H. Brunson of Merrill, Wis. Evidence of a struggle suggests that the man was murdered. An overtaxed boiler in one of the buildings of the Niagara branch of the National starch trust blew up at Buffalo, N. Y. Four workmen were killed. The explosion shook the brick building to pieces and “shelled” the neighborhood for an eighth of a mile with bricks and pieces of iron. Great damage was done to the houses near by. Every pane of glass within two blocks was broken. A piece of iron weighing fifty pounds crashed through the roof of a two-story house at 28 Oneida street. Mrs. John McFeeley, who lived on the second floor, was holding her infant daughter. The iron struck her, breaking her shoulder blade and crushing the iufant's skull. Albert Brinker, aged 9, was playing in a yard a block away when he was struck by a piece of the Ixiiler, which broke his leg. Nearly a hundred trifling injuries are reported. Mrs. Joseph W. Hoyt and baby are missing and are supposed to be buried in the ruins.

The news of a new scheme to get Chinese into this country in spite of'the provisions of the exclusion act reached the Chinese inspectors of New York City. Chief of Police Lane of Hudson. N. Y., discovered the plot. Six Chinese were found in the bay loft of the St. Charles Hotel barn at Hudson, on their way to New York. The men had come from Montreal and got to Albany without being discovered. Just how they managed to get so fur will be the subject of an investigation. From what the Chinese inspectors now know of the case the Chinese were evidently shipped over the line in a big dry goods box us freight. When Chief of Police Lane discovered the game the men had just got out of a big packing case. A soap box was nailed on one end of the case and in this the men rested, their feet. With the Chinese was Charles Briggs of Albany, who drove the wagon that carried the big box. He was promptly placed under arrest. Briggs said that he got the box full of Chinamen at Albany. All sorts of schemes have been tried to get Chinese into this country since the exclusion act went into force several years ago. The most popular one was to have the Chinese swear they were returning from a visit to China: that they bad been here before, and that n “father” lived in New York. Many Chinamen got into the country in this way. The “freight route,” however, is entirely new, and so is the scheme to bring the immigrants so far below the. line.