Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1901 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Woman and two child Ten died of starvation in New York City. Carnegie is planning to erect a monument to Blaine in Pittsburg. John McCauley, chief of police of West Hoboken, fell down the Palisades and was fatally hurt. Col. T. C. Sloan was drowned in a yachting accident off Keyser's Island. South Norwalk harbor. Annie Viets of East Walpole, Mass., qhot and seriously wounded A. C. Blanchard and killed herself. Adelbert 8. "Hay, son of the Secretary of State, was killed by falling from a hotel window in New Ila ven, Conn. Explosion iu a store at Paterson, N. J., resulted in death of seventeen persons. Twelve bodies have been recovered ami identified. Six more in the ruins. George Middleton of Pottersville, N. Y.. shot and killed his wife. Jealousy was the < au.se. Middleton is under .arrest. He is 35; his wife was 28. Four small children are left motherless. George Snyder, Jr., 14 years old, was run over by a car at the sand pits at Hainesport. N. J., and had both legs so badly crushed that he bled to death before medical aid could be secured. The bursting of a huge five-ton flywheel in the Edison Electric Light works, at 53 Duune street, New York, fatally injured Harry Kraemer, an oiler, and caused a panic in the neighborhood. During a quarrel with his 7-year-obi sister. Ward, the 14-yeur-old son of Thurlow Hineher of Braddock's Bay, N. Y., shot the girl through the stomach with a revolver. She will probably die. The unwritten law that a man may slay or maim the deepoiler of bis home was repudiated and discredited the other day when a New Jersey jury convicted Thomas G. Barker of assault on Rev. John Keller. Thirty acres of coal land near Pittston, Pa., sank several feet and the surface is still going down. 'The cave-in occurred at the Fidler colliery, operated b.v Elliott, McClure & Co. The 600 employes escaped. Elizabeth Owens, 10 years old, reproved by her mother at Mayfield, Pa., secured paris green and coming into the room where the mother and some neighbore were talking, swallowed a fatal draught. Her death resulted. Driven insane by overstudy and illness, Richard Friedman, aged 25, shot and killed his sister Rosa, aged 21; fired a bullet at his sister Helen, aged 17, and then ended his own life. The tragedy took place on a crowded West End street in Boston. The Erie and Pittsburg flyer was ditched at Transfer, Pa. Four passengers were badly hurt. Just after leaving the station the rear axle of the tender broke, throwing the tender, baggage ear, express car and vestibuled coaches from the track and turning them over. Two persons were killed, three fatally hurt and forty others injured by the wrecking of a Pittsburg and Lake Erie train at Monaca, Pa. The train ran into an open switch while going at a high rate of speed and plunged down an embankment twenty-five feet high. There were between 125 and 150 passengers, and it is little short of a miracle that any of them escaped death, as all the cars turned over and two of them went over twice.