Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1901 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

Marshall S, Pike, poet, stager a»d actor, is dead at Upton, Moss., oggd 83. Ice blockade in the river and hay at New York is the worst knows in year*. Four firemen, including .captain, killed and one fatally injured in fire at New Haven, Conn. Tt' Clyde Line steamer Comanche, New York to Charleston, was on fire two hours during a fierce gale- • ‘ , Efhelbert Ncvin, one of the most noted American composers of song, died suddenly at New Haven, Comb— —— Purchases of land on Staten Island are believed to be connected with a plan of the steel trust Usbuild great shipyards there. , Michael MeQunid, u young man from Itangor, Me., made a brave rescue of a woman nnd her two children from a tenement house lire in New York. Warren Armstrong, the 2-year-old aou of James Armstrong of Flick,-Pa.,-was killed by being shot through the head by a bullet from a revolver in the hands of his G year old brother. • M. Hecko of Pittsburg was shot, while defending himself from being robbed by Ihree negro highwaymen at Mclvee'a Koeks. The bullet entered his abdomen ,oii the left side and he died. News lias been received of an explosion of dynamite at Patterson Creek, Md. Two unknown Italians and a man named John Boarder were blown to atoms. Three others were seriously injured. The packing department of the Buffalo Bolt Company's plant at North Tonawuudn, N. Y., with a large stock, was destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at from $73,000 to SIOO,OOO, and is covered by insurance. Car No. 25 on the Hamilton avenue division of the Consolidated Traction Company in 4 Pittsburg jumped the track and toppled over against the curb, wrecking the car and injuring twenty or more pas sengers, four seriously. Miss Edith Talbot of the Bowdoin Square Theater stock company was shot and seriously wounded as she was leavifig the stage entrance of the theater in Boston, after the performance, by a man who made -good bis escape There is no clevi - to his identity.