Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1902 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

“Reggie” Vanderbilt is said to have promised his relatives to give up gambling. Rear Admiral William T. Sampson died at his residence in Washington, D. C., after a long illness. Congressman Amos J. Cummings of Ne%Ybrk died at Baltimore from pneumonia following an operation. Archbishop Corrigan ’died in New York after a brief illness, caused by a cold caught on his recent trip to Washington. Frank Smith, the lad who was injured in a boxing match with Hans Hartranft before the Keystone Athletic Club at Allentown, Pa., died from a fractured skull or clot on the brain. Representative J. S. Salmon of the Fourth District of New Jersey died suddenly at his home in Boonton. Apoplexy was the cause of death. He was 56 years old, and a Democrat. President Roosevelt, in a speech at Washington banquet, said army and navy had placed American flag in Philippines, and it would stay there; he had just returned from Annapolis graduation and was enthusiastic over the navy. New York Central fast mail No. 3, west bound, collided with a fast freight going in the opposite direction a quarter of a mile west of the station at Clyde, N. Y., killing the engineer and fireman of the mail and seriously injuring thirteen mail clerks. The Wells elevator, situated on Buffalo river at the foot of Indiana street, Buffalo, N. Y., was destroyed by tire. A large quantity of grain had been placed in the elevator during the past week and the loss on the building and its contents is estimated at $225,000. Two persons were killed and forty-five injured, two probably fatally, in a bad head-on collision between an emigrant train and a fast freight near Rockwood, Pa., on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The two trains dashed toward each other on a straight stretch of track. A skiff containing four grown people and a child was overturned in the Youghiogheny river at West Newton, Pa., and two were drowned. Mrs. Frederick Landsparger and her son, 4 years old, were the victims. Laudsparger, unable to help them, saw his wife and son drown. Mrs. Kate Soffel, wife of Warden Soffel of the Allegheny County, Pa., jail, who figured in the sensational escape and recapture of the Biddle brothers last January, was called into court and entered a idea of guilty to the charge of aiding and abetting the escape of prisoners. Mrs. Fannie McComb Hertzog, who risked $3,000,000 for love by her marriage to Louis Hertzog, which "had been expressly forbidden in the will of her father, the late James Jennings McComb of Dobbs Ferry. N. Y’., has brought suit against all the heirs to recover her full share of the estate. The cases of alleged assault against Senator Money of Mississippi, Orpha H. Shaner, a street ear conductor, and Jas. E. Hooper, a truck foreman in the fire department, all growing out of a street car altercation in Washington, were nolle prossed and formally abandoned in the police court after a vigorous contest between counsel. Until tlie other day Willie Raymond, 3 years old, was the master of his parents’ home at 1428 Baltic avenue, Atlantic City. Upon the arrival of a baby sister during the forenoon little Willie became exceedingly jealous of the attention bestowed upon the infant by the other members of the household, and, awaiting a favorable opportunity, he stabbed the baby with a knife, inflicting u dangerous wound. Two masked men armed with revolvers held up a crowded electric car of the Old Colony Street Railway Company on Washington street, near Lagrange, in West Roxbury, Mass., drove off a policeman with a shower of bullets, and took to their heels without waiting to rob the passengers. The oar was filled with passengers. The roiito is through a thickly wooded district, where houses, electric lights and policemen are scarce. Two persons perished and several were injured in a fire which gutted the building at 3<>4 Pearl street, New Y’ork, occupied by the Eureka Bedding Company. The fire started on the first floor near a pile of stair pads. A boy was sweeping loose cotton over the floor, and it is supposed that he swept the stuff over a lighted cigar or cigarette stub. The cotton burst into a blaze, the stair pads were sot afire and in nn instant the fire spread over tlie first floor and ascended to tlie upper floors. A panic ensued, and. disregarding the fire escapes, many of the employes jumped from rear windows to the roof of an extension. The rush of immigrants to New Y’ork, which has signalized the first four months of the year, reached a climax in one week recently, during which time 25,120 were brought from the various European ports. Tlie total number of immigrants arriving for the four mouths ending April 30 was 178,004, an excess of more than 30,000 over any previous year for the same period. By months the record this year is: January, 18,213; February, 20.519; March, 57,175; April, 73,667. When it is mentioned that the total number lauding here last year was 438,868 it will be seen that 1902 has started out as a record breaker. No fewer than 12,310 immigrants were landed at Ellis Island in one day.