Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1902 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

Kroonland, the largest vessel thus far built in the United States, was launched at Philadelphia, "Billy’’ Emerson, once famous minstrel, known all over the world, died in poverty in an obscure Boston hotel. Three high school boys at Westfield, Mass., were expelled because they persisted in eating onions for breakfast. Twelve Princeton students were arrested at Trenton, N. J., for painting class number on battle monument and houses. At Wilmerding, near Pittsburg, Pa,, in a bobsled accident, one young wojnan was killed and four other coasters badl.v Injured. Two workmen were killed and three injured at Beck’s Run, on the Pittsburg, Virginia and Charleston Railroad, by being struck by a train. Fifty lives were probably lost in New York in a fire which destroyed the Park Avenue Hotel aud Seventy-first regiment armory. Property loss was over $1,000,000. Seven of the precious stones in the altar of the Tiffany chapel, in the crypt of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, on Cathedral heights. New York, were lemoved by thieves. Vera A. and Charles Louen, 3 and 4 years of age respectively, were burned to death in a tire which destroyed the Rose Petit orphanage, on Hermitage lane, at Greendale, Worcester, Mass. Michael Leinkran, a passenger on the Kronprinz Wilhelm, was arrested by treasury officials in New York and uncut diamonds worth S4O,(MX), alleged to have been smuggled, were taken from him. Two women were injured and a dozen or more passengers badly hurt by an explosion on a Green Point trolley car in New York. The blowing up of the motor set fire to the ear and it was destroyed. Charles aud Willie Ralph Cramer, three runaway hoys from Latrobe, I’a., are held by the St. Louis police. On the hoys, none of whom is over 10 years old, was found $432 in bills. Cracksmen made a daring attempt to get at the vaults of the Varick Bank in New York, with the intention of looting them. They were scared from their purpose after they had severely wounded a night watchman. Isaac Henderson, aged 21), a theological student at Drew Seminary, New Brunswick, N. J., committed suicide there after having been driven insane by the belief that lie had been drawn irrevocably into a life of sin aud dissipation. His home was at West Lafayette, Ohio. While trying to replenish the oil in the beach lantern on the Sunken Meadows, near North Brothers Island, New York, the 14-year-old son of Samuel Wright, keeper of the lighthouse, was drowned by the upsetting of a rowboat in the lee and sleet. The father, who was with the boy, was rescued. The repair shop, the machine shop aud other buildings of the Fifth avenue branch of the Brooklyn Elevated Railroad were destroyed by fire. Besides machinery, twenty-five elevated cars were destroyed. The loss is estimated at between $200,000 and $250,000. Three firemen were slightly injured. Four apartment houses in Kingston avenue, Brooklyn, were destroyed by fire. The fire was caused by the explosion of a steam heating boiler in the basement of one of the apartment houses. The flames spread rapidly to the three other buildings. All the occupants of the houses made their way to the street in safety. Six hundred men and boys went on strike at Hickory Ridge colliery, Sliamokin, l‘a., owned by the Union Coal Company. The strikers asked for tlie discharge of a clerk who, they said, treated them unfairly in dealing out supplies. The superintendent refused to grant their demand and the strike followed.