Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1902 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

Democratic legislators In caucus in Maryland nominated Arthur Pue Gorman for return to the Ignited States Senate. Two small children of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Mclvim were burned to death and the house destroyed by fire near Coal City, Pa. Thirty-live new buildings will be erected at West Point military academy, and they will call for uu appropriation of $5,000,000. An explosion in a powder bouse near Clearfield, Pa., wrecked the building, killed John C. Stewart and seriously injured four other workmen. The development of a smallpox case in the university lias caused considerable excitement at Princeton, N. J., and every precaution is being taken to prevent its spread. An Involuntary petition in bankruptcy has been filed against the Sheldon Manufacturing Company of Binghamton, N. Y. The nominal assets are $48,000, liabilities $85,000. Assistant Surgeon J. J. Buchanan, 11. S. N., cut liis throat with a razor,-and died while delirious at his ward in the naval hospital on Coastes Harbor Island, Newport, It. I. George D. Stratton, a collector for the Equitable Gas and Electric Company, has been arrested at Utica, N. Y., charged with larceny. He admits stealing SG,OOO from the company. The Dayville Woolen Company of Dayville, Conn., has been adjudged bankrupt and the schedule of its liabilities and assets shows liabilities aggregating $387,321. The assets amount to $170,805. A well-dressed young mnn threw a stone through the shop window of Edward Burger's loan office on Sixth avenue, New York, mid stole diumond jewelry worth $5,000. Though the street was crowded, lie escaped. Martin O’Hara, aged 18 years, and his sister Mary, aged 15, were drowned while skating on the Youghiogkeny at Osceola, Pa. Their brother James, aged 8, also went under the ice, but was rescued oy men who were at work near by. Charles Caleb Creston, the head of a prominent and influential family living in Philadelphia and Germantown, was found dead in liis home at the latter place, having been asphyxiated by gas escaping from a beater in his room. Annie Beaudry shot Jennie Gagnon in one of the Amoskeng Corporation mills at Manchester, N. 11., and then committed suicide. Miss Gagnop is alive, but in a critical condition. It is believed that M iss Beaudry was not iu her right mind.

As a result of the recent disaster the New York Central Railroad will change its motive power iu the Park avenue tunnel within a year. Electricity will be substituted at ouce for steam on all local trains and as soon as possible on trunk line trains. 11. C. Frick, since bis election to the directorate of the Pittsburg Coal Company, has started a plan to consolidate all the coal mining companies in the Pittsburg district having railroad connection. This will require a capitalization of almost $200,000,000. Arrangements have been made for a meeting of the principal companies manufacturing wire and wire nails in Pittsburg, at which it is probable that an arbitrary price association will be formed for the purpose of controlling the prices of wire and wire nails. First practical fruits of the recent conference between leaders of capital and labor in New York have been shown in the city of New York, where the executive committee lias succeeded in averting a strike of 40,000 garment workers, the points at issue being adjusted by arbitration. Henry Pearlstein, his wife and five children, ranging in ago from 1V& to 12 years, were burned to death in a fire that destroyed a two-story frame building in Buffalo, N. Y. Joseph Supowski, who owned the building, and Karl Brack!, his brother-in-law, have been arrested pending an investigation.