Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1902 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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> Four hundred freight car builders in the Pennsylvania shops at Altoona nre on strike. John Heiser and a young man named Cook were drowned near Philadelphia by the capsizing of a ferryboat. 1 Miss Alice Hay, daughter of John Hay, Secretary of State, was thrown from her carriage in Washington and painfully bruised. The Robinson Machine and Manufacturing Company’s plant at Monongahela, Pa., burned, causing over $75,000 loss, fully insured. Edward C. Pritchett, a Baltimore real estate dealer, has filed a petition in bankruptcy, scheduling liabilities at $301,734 and assets of $986. The large nail mill In Sunbury, Pa., the property of the American Steel Company, was destroyed by fire. Loss $50,000, partially covered by insurance. Fire at Rockaway Beach, L. L, cost four lives and destroyed half a score of hotels and numerous other structures, causing on estimated loss of $120,000. Mrs. Sallie E. McCall, who admits stealing $30,000 worth of jewelry and securities from Mrs. Caroline Bradstettcr at Philadelphia, has been arrested in Baltimore. At Worcester, Mass., Nicholas LnVoye, aged 21, pawned his wife’s wedding ring, used some of the proceeds to buy carbolic acid and killed himself with the poison. A conflagration which raged for two hours in the town of Jersey Shore, Pa., destroyed sixteen buildings in the business portion of the town and caused a loss of between $25,090 and $30,000. The Havana Tobacco Company was incorporated at Trenton, N. J., with $35,000,000 capital to grow and manufacture tobacco. Of the capital stock $5,000,000 is to draw 5 per cent noncumulative dividends. Miss Viola Allen, daughter of one of the wealthiest residents of Burlington, N. J., was accidentally shot and instantly killed by Henry Elsie, a one-armed negro, who was trying to kill a cat that had been stealing his chickens. By the overturning of a raft in the Monongahela river above Fayette City. Pa., the 11-year-old son of Theodore Booth was drowned. Several children were on the raft at the time, and as three have not been accounted for it is thought they were also drowned. A grade crossing accident on the Erie Railroad near Sugar Grove, Pa., resulted in almost blotting out one family and the maiming for life of every member of another. The party occupied a doubleseated carriage on their way to visit relatives at Jamestown, Pa. Mrs. Rose Fieginow, wife of a New York newsdealer, killed her 6-year-old daughter Bertha by gas asphyxiation and then committed suicide by taking carbolic acid. The woman had been a sufferer from a nervous disease for several years and it is supposed she was temporarily insane. While preparing to fire a salute at Wichita, Kan., a gun belonging to Battery A, Kansas State artillery, exploded prematurely, wounding three members of the battery. George Hatter of Peck was fatally hurt, Burt Davis of Wichita was dangerously wounded and G. W. Thomas, also of that city, was seriously hurt. llafry Hicks, aeronaut, was killed at Kingston Point, a summer resort near Kingston, N. Y. When the balloon had reached an altitude of 2.000 feet Hicks commenced the descent by means of a parachute, going slowly to 800 feet above the Hudson river. For some reason he lost his hold and fell, striking head first on a sand bar in the river. It is reported officially that the Pennsylvania Railroad management has reached nn understanding with the Goulds relating to the extension of the IX abash into Pittsburg. The Pennsylvania has agreed to allow the Wabash to intersect its lines at ten different points, practically removing nil obstacles from the path of the Gould interests. Emma, the daughter of William Ross, a farmer residing near Keptville, N. Y., was burned to death. The young woman was doing some painting and had put a can of paint on the stove to thicken it, when the paint exploded and set fire to the house. Miss Ross in endeavoring to extinguish the flames was so badly burned that she died shortly afterward. lu Buffalo, N. Y., the Manning malthouse, together with a quantity of grain damaged in the fire nt the Wells elevator a few weeks ago, was burned. A high wind blew firebrands and sparks to a great distance, setting fire to the roofs of sixteen dwellings, only one of which, however, was destroyed. The loss is estimated at $150,000, partially covered by insurance.