Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1902 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Bituminous miners of Pennsylvania, by stopping shipment of product into anthracite field, aided cause of strikers. Roland Worthington, well-known financier and club man of Boston, married Miss Edith Johnson, a stenographer twenty years his junior. Attempt to kill Lehigh Coal Company superintendent was made at Wilkesbarre. Engine on which he was riding was riddled with bullets. Strike leaders pleaded against violence. A young man who was a passenger on a Brooklyn bridge car in New York suddenly left his seat and sprang over the bridge rail into the river below. The body lias not been recovered. Captain Hannett Robbins of Port Morris, N. J., and Mrs. Pluma Haines of Camden, N. J., were drowned opposite Chester, Pa., by the capsizing of the sloop Henry B. Robbins. In addition to property damage caused by a cloudburst, five railroad men lost their lives by n freight train on the Central Vermont Railroad running into a washout at Middlesex, Vt. United States secret service men, aided by local police, captured eight Italians in Baltimore, supposed to be members of a gang of counterfeiters who have operated in several parts of the country during the past few months. At Corry, Uu., some hoys discovered evidence of a terrible murder. The body of Henry Haddock, an old soldier, was found tilled full of buckshot and the skull crushed in. Haddock, when last seen, had a large sum of money, and this is missing. What is locally known ns "the triumvirate” of Tammany Hall, New Y'ork, has adopted a resolution abolishing the chairmanship of the finance committee of Tammany Hall. This wus the chairmanship held by Richard Croker, his predecessors and the late leader, Lewis Nixon.

The Supreme Court of Connecticut has rendered valid a residuary legacy of $lO,000 of Sidney Hall of Hartford, given to a Boston society, to be used in publications combating the doctrine of the immortality of the soul. -The legacy was contested on the grounds of public policy and morals. Sullivan 11. Palm, aged 40, brother of Sheldon E. Palm, ex-postmaster of Warren, Ohio, was found dead at the Boston House, Pittsburg. Dr. Walter MeCiwulless made an examination for the coroner mid determined that Palm hail died from poisoning. The police believe it the work of a jealous woman. The house of James Applegate at Hazleton, Pa., was badly shattered by an explosion of dynamite which had been placed near the side of the building by unknown persons. The family escaped injury. Applegate has been employed as a special officer at the Cranberry coll'ory since the strike went into effect. Mrs. Itaehel Salilor, a widow, was shot ami killed at Contesviile, Pa., by Harry N. Ricer of New Castle and xvas himself killed by a bullet front the same revolve! while struggling with another woman for its possession. Ricer had quarreled with Mrs. Salilor, and xvheu sire refused to receive him he shot her through the heart. For twenty-five years Charles S. Shivler has been secretary and treasurer of the American District Telegraph Company in New York at a salary ot $5,000 a year. The other day lie was arrested and indicted by the grand jury for grand larceny on three counts after he had confessed that he had been stealing for sixteen, or seventeen years, in order to provide funds to complete an Invention. New Y'ork detectives and the coroner are investigating what may prpve to be a double murder. The victims are Clarence Foster and Miss Sarah Lawrence whose bodies were found in Shinueeoek bay, Long Island. Foster's remains were found early in the morning and those of Miss Lawrence a few hours later. The head and face of Foster hail been battered and there were marks of violence on other portions of the body.