Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1901 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

The Union paper mill* at Monongahela City, Pa., were burned. Loss £50,000. The powder mills at Krebs Station. Pa., were totally destroyed by a terrific explosion, and two men were instantly killed. j By the collapse of a false roof over the United States Supreme Court room at the capitol in Washingion several men were badly injured. Sixty guests at Hiram College alumni banquet .were stricken with typhoid fever from drinking froip an old well on the campus. Two have died. Despite the season, hail fell to the depth of two feet in the ridge above Ligonier, Pa., and it is believed Edward Miller, a farmer, was frozen to death in the terrific storm. The steamer Ticonderoga, belonging to the Champlain Transportation Company, plying between Baldwin and Caldwell on Lake George, was destroyed by fire. No lives were lost. ■■■ -—-———— George M. Foster, former cashier of the failed South Danvers National Bank of Peabody, Mass., pleaded guilty to making false entries and misapplying the funds of the institution. Rev. Walter Lowrie, assistant to Rev. Wilson Merle Smith, the Central Presbyterian Church of West Firty-seventh street, New York, was drowned at Newport, It. 1., while bathing. The collapse of a three-story frame building at Bloomfield and Center streets, Hoboken, resulted in the death of George Koerner, bartender in the saloon on the first floor of the structure. An accommodation train was derailed nt the station at Fairville. N. Y.. Engineer William Mesher of Sodus Point was killed, twenty-eight persons were injured, two of whom will probably die. The Rankin Hotel at Rankin, Pa., was destroyed by fire. The flames spread so rapidly that the guests barely escaped with their lives and lost almost all their dothing. The loss was about £IO,OOO. Robert M. Wilson, formerly owner of lhe R. M. Wilson Bath Tub works in Rome, N. Y., was shot mid almost instantly killed with a revolver in his own hand at his summer home at Sylvan Beach. At Walpole, Mass., two then were shot and seriously wounded as the outcome of a quarrel between Fred L. Jenks, marhinist, ami Myra Belle Spear, a young woman with whom he had been keeping company. Ada Gray, who gained international reputation as Lady Isabel —hr "East Lynne,” died at the Home for Incurables at Fordham, N. Y., where she had been since .Inn. 15, a sufferer from locomotor ataxia. Several persons Were injured in a collision between a north-bound passenger and a freight train on the Schuylkill Valley Railroad, near Spring City, Pa. One of the freight cars was loaded with oil, which caused a tire and explosion. The destruction of the Hotel McKee, a frame structure in the East End, at Pittsburg, resulted in the loss of one life, injuries to four others and the narrow escape of many more. The fire was caused by the explosion of a gasoline stove. Three lives were lost and nine people wore badly burned in a fire which started In an old four-story frame tenement at 219 Graham avenue, Williamsburg, N. Y. The fire was started by a woman trying to .replenish the fuel ia an oil stove while the wick was afire. Sued by the wife of her coachman for alienating the man’s affection, Miss Maud B. Wetherell, one of the wealthiest belles of Gloucester, Mass., refuses to say anything about the matter, which has caused a great sensation. Mrs. Martin Magnusson brings the suit and places damages at £3O,(MX).