Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1901 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

Fire destroyed the large plant of the National Wire Company at Fairhaven, Conn., entailing a property loss estimated at $325,000. The Ilev. J. A. Keller was shot down by T. G. Barker at Arlington, N. J., because of charges made by the latter’s wife against the rector. A palace of marble is to house the new public library which is to be built upon the site of the old distributing reservoir *in Bryant Park, New York. At 1 o’clock the other morning Thomas McHenry, a well-to-do lumber merchant residing near Kohraburg, Pa., was shot by an unknown assassin, and death ensued six hours later. In a collision between a Bessemer passenger train nud a Nickel Plate freight at Wallace Junction, Pa., .Freight Conductor Peter Donahue was killed and twenty passengers injured. As a result of eating pork supposed to have been “doctored” with some sort of preservative, a whole family was poisoned in Pittsburg. One member is dead and five others are seriously ill. In Lexington avenue, New York, a runaway cable car caught up with two other cars and pushed them ahead in a wild run for twenty blocks. Four persons were hurt seriously and a score slightly. Richard Delafield, the president of the National Park Bank of New York, received by u vote of the directors the largest salary ever paid to a bank president in the United States. His stipend of $25,000 was raised to $40,000. „ Owing to misuuderstandiug of signals, a Reading Railway passenger train ran into the rear end of a coal train near Port Clinton, Pa. Irvin S. Fornwuld of Reading, brakernau, was killed, and Levi Lesgel, brukemun, was injured. A car of the Adunis Express Company attached to the train which left Philadelphia at midnight the other night for New York, was rifled by robbers en route. A quantity of miscellaneous freight was taken estimated at about $4,000. Unknown persons sent a box fall of dynamite to Dr. Luther Emeriek of Georgetown, Del. Before he could open It his secretary took it into the yard nud opened the infernal machine without an explosion. There was enough dynamite in the box to blow the house to pieces. A small keg of dynamite used for blasting purposes exploded in the Fernwood mine at Pittston, Pa., owned by the Erie Railway Company. Joseph Santino had an arm blown off ami nn eye destroyed; the skull of Anthony Hres Santino was fractured. Both men probably will die. AA’ith his face covered with gold paint, Jacob Abrams, 00 years old, an eccentric game constable, was found dead in his home at Cove, Oyster Bay, L. I. Apoplexy is said to have caused death, but the authorities believe he met with rough treatment while being initiated into a secret society. A boiler explosion occurred in the sugar factory of the AA’. AA’icke Company, in East 31st street, New York, by which over twenty persons were injured and which was followed by one of the fiercest conflagrations New York has witnessed in many years, causing nn estimated loss of $1,500,000. The burned area, in general extent, took on about one city block.