Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1901 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Fire destroyed! the George P. Cox last factory at Malden, Mass. L 055.535,000. Sixteen persons are killed and twentysix prostrated by the heat in one day in New York City. Edward Weinschraber of Williamsburg, N. Y., was seriously injured by the explosion of a loaded cigaret. Unknown blackmailers, failing to extort SIO,OOO from Charles D. Barney, of Philadelphia, sent his daughter an infernal machine. Henry Marquand & Co., bankers and brokers, closely identified with the Seventh National Bank, failed, with estimated liabilities of $8,000,000. The Brier Hill Coke Company has been organized and the company has purchased 1,100 acres of coal land near Masontown, Pa., paying $400,000 for it. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, fell from a street car in Washington and is suffering from concussion of the brain. Yale ’varsity eight-oared crew defeated Harvard in a terrific struggle on the end. Yale freshmen won. and Harvard’s fouroared crew landed in front of Yale, Three persons are reported to have been killed and two seriously injured by an explosion of dynamite nar Karthaus, Pa. The men were blasting for a new railroad. O. C. Thompson, a passenger on the Dominion liner Commonwealth, which arrived at Boston from Liverpool, committed suicide by jumping overboard while the steamer was off that coast. Comptroller Dawes forced the closing of the crippled Seventh National Bank of New York. Belief in Washington is that criminal prosecutions will follow because of over-certification of checks. Prof. J. R. V. Silver, a hypnotist, was severely horsewhipped in the Arena restaurant, New York, by his wife. He was dining with Actress Julia Morrison, who was tried and acquitted at Chattanooga last year for killing Frank Lowden. While seated under a tree during a thunderstorm, waiting for an electric car to convey them to Meriden, Fred Lee of Southampton, Conn., and his bride, Mrs. Florence Cornell Lee, were struck bylightning and killed. They were on their honeymoon. The President has refused to pardon ex-District Attorney Ellery P. Ingham and ex-Assistant District Attorney Harvey K. Newitt, sentenced to two and a half years’ imprisonment for connection the famous Jacobs counterfeiting cases in Pennsylvania. The steamer Mohawk, owned by John H. Starin and used by him in carrying excursionists to Glen Island, struck a rock just off New Rochelle with 900 passengers on Iward, and sank in less thau twenty minutes. It is believed that all of the passengers escaped. As the result of the breaking of a temporary platform built on a scaffolding inside and bridging the top of a monstrous tank in the Eastern elevator at Buffalo, six men fell a distance of eighty feet. Four were killed, one instantly, and the others died within a few hours. At Essex, Conn., John Sampson noticed a white snake crawling across the road a short distance ahead. It quickly coiled itself and sounded its ominous rattle, and he gave no thought to its strange color until after he had killed it. The reptile was three feet long and had eleven rattles.