Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1901 — EABTERN. [ARTICLE]

EABTERN.

Members of the White Rats struck in i twenty-three Eastern vaudeville theaters, i Harvard’s' famous wooden pump, over seventy years old, was blown up by a bomb. The New York police board, after investigating charges made by Bishop Potter, whitewashed Captain Herlihy. Cob John F. Tobias, a Philadelphia millionaire, 75 years old and paralyzed, is being sued for breach of promise by a New York woman. At Sharon. Pa.. 1 an Erie and Pittsburg freight train ran into a crowd of uien on I their way to w'ork. Five men were killed outright, being cut to pieces. At a meeting of glass tableware manufacturers at Pittsburg it was decided to advance the price of tumblers from 10 to 25 per cent, the increase to become effective at once, “A cerM’jficate.of incorporation was filed at Dover, Del., for the Pardoners’ Mining Company of Chicago, to purchase, acquire and operate mines. The capital is given as $1,000,000. The American Woolen Company's As so bi t l mills at Maynard, Mass., employing 1,100 operatives; are shut down on account of the strike of thirty women employes who are dissatisfied with their wages. Thieves entered the Slovak ltomau Catholic .Church of St. John the Evangelist in New Haven. Pa., and stole all the sacred vessels aud figures. Many beautiful golden images of saints were stolen. Thirty (louring mills, located principal ! ly in Pennsylvania and Maryland, and having a daily output of 10,(XX) barrels, have entered into a combination which will be known as the Eastern Milling and Export Company. Harvard College observatory announces that a m w star, observed very recently, is the brightest one discovered in three centuries. It is in the constellation Perseus. it is ojf the first magnitude and in three days Ims emerged from totu 1 invisibility. The big deal for 55,000 neres of coal land in Allegheny, Lower Burrell and other townships in the northern end of Westmoreland County, l‘a., is nearly concluded The lan I goes to Drape «k Kirkland of Pittsburg at a cost of SSO per acre. Of property worth $85(5,503, which Benjamin Hitchcock, n music dealer of New York City, had when he assigned in 1805, it is said that only about S7OO Is left for distribution among the preferred creditors. 'The estate lias been eaten up in litigation. Thirteen were kitted outright in the most serious accident which has ever happened on the Camden and Amboy division of the Pennsylvania Itailroad. The wreck took place about two miles below Trenton. X. .1. A single track and a confusion of orders were responsible. John W. Tower died at Bennington, Vt., of heart failure. He was born in Williamstpwn sixty-two years ago. Mr. Tower was known as the smallest infill in the Fnited States, being-44 im-hos-tall and weighing less than DO pounds. "For' several years lie traveled with the Barmint show. Thirty flouring mills, located principally in Pennsylvania and Maryland and having a daily output of 10,000 barrels, have entered info a combination which will be known as the Eastern Milling and Export Company. Newton Jjuekson of Philadelphia is at the head of the combine, with headquarters in that city.