Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1902 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

Charles Davis, a West Virginia negno, was hanged at Pittsburg for the murder of his wife last December. Yale varsity eight-oared crew defeated Harvard in aimost record time, crimson four-oared crew won from the blue, while the freshmen eight rowed a dead heat. Wells College at Aurora, N. Y., has received gifts aggregating S92,(MM), all of which is to be used in erecting new buildings and adding to the equipment of the Institution. A collision occurred between a Brooklyn Heights electric car ami a two-seated carriage at Sixtieth street ami Gravesend avenue, New York. Five people on the latter vehicle were injured. Joseph Irons, aged 11 years, died of hydrophobia on the Baltimore and Ohio limited at Rockwood, Pa. He was on his way to Boston for treatment. He was bitten by a cat last April. At least six lives —and possibly seven--were lost by the sinking of the steam barge George Dunbar of Chicago off Kelley’s Island, in one of the worst storms that have visited Lake Erie in years. Mrs. Irene Brady Weber, known tn stageland as Irene Perry, the burlesque actress, was quietly married, in Boston to Harvey Bell, an advertising agent and the son of Bishop Bell of North Carolina. Mme. Janauschek, who, [K)or and enfeebled by a paralytic stroke, is living at Saratoga, N. Y’., has a few jewels left and these are to be rallied by their custodian, Janies E. Tossiny of Brooklyn, unless sold advantageously. At .Springfield, Mass.. Mrs. Antone Mueller has beeh shot to death by Joseph Bencker, who then committed suicide. The murdered woman's husband discovered the bodies on returning from his work. Jealousy is supposed to have caused the tragedy. The wages of unskilled employes of the Carnegie Steel Company at Pittsburg, nearly 1,500, have been voluntarily increased 10 per cent. This will make the .wages of the lowest laborer $1.65 a day. The increase goes into effect without the knowledge of the men. Carefully concealing all traces of their work, though they carted away about $4,000 worth of fine china and bric-a-brac from the magnificent residence of Mrs. Genevieve Sussdorff in Woodside, L. 1., burglars locked all the doors of the fine house and then threw away the keys. At 12 o'clock the other night four men went into the saloon of Austin CroW •. in Buffalo, N. Y., aimed revolvers at him. and demanded his money. Crowe ran around the end of the bar and began to fight. The hold-up men fired five shots and Crowe fell dead, shot through the heart. The robbers escaped. In Boston the Attorney General rendered an important opinion, in which he cites that credit must be allowed for accrued interest on liens. This decision will increase the assets of the Mutual Reserve by $239,000, the Provident Savings by $52,000. and the Security Mutual by $6,000. The text is a distinct rebuff to the insurance department, which held otherwise. Janies E. Pearson, 65 years of age, a lawyer, whose home was at Hemostead, L. 1., and who had an office in Brooklyn, was found dead in his office. He had killed himgelt by inhaling illuminating gas. In his hand was the photograph of a Woman. He left a letter, in which he said: “I am a defaulter and thief, and where all the money is gone I cannot tel). My wife and children are left penniless.” Formal nnnounceuumt of the-organiza-tion of the American Steel Foundries under a New Jersey charter, with an authorized capital of $40,000,000, half 6 per cent cumulative preferred stock ami half common, has been made. The new corporation acquires the following plants and properties: American Steel Castings Company of New Jersey, Reliance Steel Castings Company (Limited) of Pittsburg, Pa.; Leighton & Howard Steel Company of St. Louis, Mo.; Franklin Steel Casting Company of Franklin, Pa.; the Sargent Company of Chicago, 111.; American Steel Foundry Company of St. Ix>uis, Mo.