Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1902 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Albert Smith, colored, wag hanged at Philadelphia for the murder of his wife. Sol Smith Russell. America’s greatest comedian, died at Washington of alovi* paraplegia. One of the buildings- at the Shenandoah Powder Company, at Krebs Station, Pa., blew up. Four men were killed. Mrs. Alice H. Putnam of Chicago was chosen president by the International Kindergarten Union convention at Boston. The schooner Barklow, from Marine City, foundered In Lake Erie, half a mile from Put-in-Bay, and three persons lost their lives. The petition of a lecture bureau for an injunction to restrain Miss Ellen M. Stone from lecturing was denied by Judge Richardson in Boston. Michael Cherko, aged 38, was murdered at Freeland, Pa., during the progress of the Greek Easter services. George Smith is under arrest, charged with the crime. Constable Charles Engelbrecht was shot to death on the Secaucus road near Snake Hill, N. J.’ The police are searching for a man whom they suspect of the murder. The body of Janies V. P. Turner, a well-known lawyer of Philadelphia, who disappeared, was found in Fairmount Park. Death is thought to have been due to hemorrhage. A locomotive attached to a passenger train on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad blew .up near Dover, N. J., killing the engineer. None of the passengers was hurt. The first colored student to win a prize at Yale is George Crawford of Tungaloo, Ala., a member of the middle class In Yale Law School. He won third prize, S2O, in the annual contest for the Wayland prizes. Carroll D. Wright, bend of the bureau of statistics of labor, Washington, is to be the head of the new collegiate school attached to Clark University, Worcester, Mass., over which Prof, G. Stanley Hall presides. C. E. Borchgrevink, the antarctic explorer, has made formal application at Washington to become an American citizen. Mr. Borchgrevink will be a rover for some years, but the United States will be his home. At Glens Falls, N. Y., fire caused a property loss estimated at over $500,000. It started in the clothing store of Webb Brothers, and from thence spread to the large plant of the Joseph Fowler Shirt and Collar Company. John Wann maker, charged with selling poison contrary to law, was acquitted in Philadelphia of the charge by Magistrate Stratton, who said the accused was guilty of a technical violation, but did his best to repair the fault. Simon Shamoniski, a Hebrew sentenced to the Onondaga County jail at Syracuse, N. Y., for fifteen days, was released on appeal to County Judge Ross, on the ground that he could not live on the jail diet during the passover season. Plans which are being prepared by the yards and docks department of the navy indicate that one of the largest dry docks in the United States will be built at the Brooklyn navy yard. It will cost about $1,000,000 and will be built entirely of concrete. While lying in Newtown creek, near the Manhattan avenue bridge, in Greenpoint, New York, the tugboat Thomas Percival was destroyed by an explosion. Three of the crew—an engineer and two firemen—are missing. Edward Moran, a watchman, was found 1n The debris. He was fatally hurt. Yale University will receive the residuary estate of Edward Wells Southworth and also the reversionary interest in a bequest of $15,000 made to a relative of the testator for life, according to the terms of Southworth’s will. The personal property is estimated at $200,000 and the realty at $30,000. Forest fires in the immediate vicinity of Oil City, Pa., have entailed a loss of $30,000 u;»on Venango County oil producers, many tanks and derricks being burned. Reports from Forest County show that the fire is doing much damage in the virgin forest near Tionesta. .The big saw and lumber mill at Gilfoyle, neur there, was destroyed. William McCarty, 12 years old, lost his life at Portchester, Conn., while trying to save his blind father in the belief that he was in danger. The boy was playing with some companions, when he saw his father walking near the railroad and an express train approaching. He started across the tracks to save him and was struck by the train. Constable Rhoades arrested Michael Grosscup at his home at Stowe, Pa., on a charge of assault. Grosscup went upstairs ostensibly to change his clothing, but sprang through a window and ran away. The constable, who weighs 200 pounds, attempted to follow his prisoner through the window and became wedged fast. It was necessary for a carpenter to cut the frame away to release Rhoades.