Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1902 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

The atrike of the bridge and structural Iron workers of the Pittsburg district has been officially declared at an end. Twenty-live persons were killed and many injured in an oil and naphtha explosion in a railway yard near Pittsburg. •Senator McLauriu of South Carolina and A. A. Cates of that State had a list fight over politics in a hotel lobby in Washington. The heavy frosts have caused damage estimated at half a million dollars in the extensive fruit-growing section of New York State. Mine workers, men aqd boys, to the number of 150,000, have gone out on strike in the anthracite coat regions of Pennsylvania. The five buildings of the C. K. Williams Paint Company, at Easton, Pa., were destroyed by tire. Loss, $100,000; insurance small. Harry H. Starkey, son of Clinton W, Starkey, president of the Oriental Bank of New York, killed himself at the B-ook-lyn Union League Club house. Owing to tlie disinclination of Chief Clerk Norris to accept the position of Chief Coiner, the coining department of the United States Mint at Philadelphia is tied up. Forest fires have been raging in the vicinity of Babylon, L. 1. Nearly 1,000 persons were engaged in fighting the flames, which at one time threatened to destroy the village. The bill to authorize licensed inn holders in Boston to provide barbers for their guests Sunday until noon was killed by a large majority, on a voice vot? in the Massachusetts House. Mrs. Lillie M. Walker, of Philadelphia, lias tiled a petition lor a receiver for Oxford College at Oxford, Ohio. Plaintiff once owned the institution and the suit relates to an accounting. Walter L. Myles, of Edwardsdale, Pa., a junior pupil of the normal school of Westchester, died from injuries received by being struck with a pitched ball in a local baseball game. Julius Newton, formerly a member of tlie banking house of 1. & S. Woruiser, shot himself through the heart in his room near Patchogue, N, Y.' His act is attributed to financial difficulties. Miss Amy B. Heath, teacher in the Chelsea, Me., school, was shot in the head by James Judge, one of her pupils. The boy, who is 13 years old, lias had a passion for literature of the wild West type. The Andover, Mass., Theological Seminary, which for over a century has been one of the foremost colleges of theological learning in the United States, is to lie moved to a western location, probably Chicago. William A. Rogers and F. 11. and O. W. Goodyear have formed a company with a capital stock of $3,000,000 to build two large modern blast furnaces at Buffalo for the manufacture of foundry pig ♦roil. At Burlington, N. J., Mrs. Helen Sharp, widow of Harry B. Sharp, who committed suicide four months ago, shot and instantly killed her 15-year-old son Edward, and with a razor cut her own throat, almost severing the head. Mortimer llaiuhridge Buggies of Virginia, who, while an aid to his father, Gen. Daniel F. Buggies of the Confederate army, assisted John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, to escape into Virginia, is dead in New York City from dropsy. He was 58 years old. By an explosion of gas at the furnaces of the American Steel and Wire Company at Neville Island, Pittsburg, Joseph Antine, aged 24, was fatally and Tony Alneo, aged 32, and Frank Butseh. aged 27, seriously burned. The explosiou was caused by a “hang" or accumulation of metal, Mrs. Catherine Soffel, the wife of Peter Soffel, warden of tlie Allegheny, Pa., county jail, who entered a idea of guilty to the charge of releasing Edward and John Biddle, the burglars and murderers of Grocer Kahney and Detective Fitzgerald, was sentenced by Judge Frazier to two years in the Western penitentiary. Lawrence Bressano, a jealous fireman at the Atlantic Hotel, Bridgeport, Conn., split open the skull of Chef Tourniah with u cleaver. Not satisfied with killing the chef, he seized a butcher knife, cut off his nose and ears and cut slices of flesh from all parts of his body. Bressano was knocked senseless before he could be arrested.