Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1902 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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John McDermott of Glenfield, Pa., choked to death on a piece of meat while eating his dinner. Charles Broadway Rouss, the merchant prince who offered $1,000,000 to have his eyesight restored, died in New York. Fire in the Grand Opera House building in New York caused a scare in the theater. Several women fainted, but the attendants succeeded in preventing a threatened panic. A New York traveling man, to demonstrate the safety of the United States mails, pasted the address of his daughter in Pennsylvania on a silver dollar and the coin was delivefed. Rev. William Stark of Baltimore has submitted to remarkable operation, his brain being lifted and the roots of nerves which caused excessive neuralgia extracted. His recovery is expected. Bartel Sweeney, an aged farmer, and his daughter, Mary, were found in their home at Wilcox, Pa., with their skulls crushed. Sweeney was well-to-do, nnd the supposition is he was murdered by robbers. Six prisoners broke jail at Easton, Sid., and in attempting to rearrest them Deputy Sheriff Thomas J. Thompson was instantly killed. Lewis Green, colored, is thought to have fired the shot which killed Thompson. Adam Leech, New York, committed suicide by hanging himself with a trunk strap to the transom of the hotel room be was occupying in Denver. Leech formerly was steward of the Knickerbocker Club of New York City. Three men were killed by the wreck of a freight train on the Harlem division of the New York Central Railroad near Philmont, N. Y. They were the engineer, fireman and a brakeman. The wreck was caused by a washout on the line. The E. I. Dupont de Nemours Company, for the manufacture of gunpowder and other explosives, with a capital of $20,000,(MX), has been incorporated at Dover, Del. The new corporation is expected to take in all the Dupont powder mills. A dispatch from Binghamton, N. Y-. says that Mary Connor of Delaware, O. t was married there the other day to a corpse. Her fiance, Henry Lacy, died an hour before she arrived, and as it was his dying wish she insisted upon the ceremony being performed. Amos Stirling, a young negro, who was the accomplice of Henry Ivory and Chas. Perry in the murder of Prof, Roy Wilson White, of the law department of the University of Pennsylvania, on the night of May 10, IDOO, was hanged in the county prison at Phidladelphia. Two tramps, giving the naincs of Oscar Francis and John Snowden, were arrested at Deer Park, Md., charged with attempting to wreck a Baltimore and Ohio passenger train by placing a Janney coupler on the track. Their explanation was that they were hungry and wanted to go to jail. At Reading, Pa., a terrific explosion occurred in the four-story music store of C. 11. Lichty. The building at once completely collapsed. This was followed by the three-story brick umbrella factory adjoi iking, owned by Mrs. Mary Roland. Both buildings and contents were destroyed. The total loss is $250,000. , Reprimands given to Leonard Robinson, 14 years old, of Blue Point, L. 1., incited the boy to plot to kill John F. Dane's 15-year-old daughter Jessie. He had dug a grave in which to bury her. Leonard told several other boys and a girl of his intentions, and when the school teacher confronted him he confessed. Fire broke out in the upper stories of the Bowdoin Square Hotel in Boston. A woman, who jumped from the hotel roof, was severely injured. The hotel is connected with the Bowdoin Square Theater. The fire was confined to the upper part of the building and the loss will be slight. About 150 guests escaped from the hotel in safety. Alexander Rosenthal, a New York lawyer, reported to the police that burglars entered his home and after chloroforming himself, wife, two children, Mrs. Rosenthal's father, the Rev. Bernard Hast, his four sons, a Miss Kornblum from Pittsburg, visiting the family, and a woman servant, stole $1,300 worth of jewelry and escaped. Patrick O’Connell is dead, Jeremiah Murphy is in a critical condition and five other men hail narrow’ escapes from deatli at the works of the Standard Oil Company in Constable Hook, N. J. The men were at work around a still in which S(X) barrels of crude Texas oil had been placed to be refined. The gas from the boiling oil settled around the still and the workmen were overcome one by one. W. E. Reynard shot and killed Margaret Lambert at 805 Watson street, Pittsburg, and then killed himself. The woman was shot through the heart, and Reynard then put two bullets into his bruin. He had been drinking bard for several days, and it is supposed was temporarily insane. Margaret Lambert, the dead woman, was from London, England. Reynard was connected with the Carnegie Steel Company as n timekeeper.