Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1902 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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John La Fleur was attacked by all ugly bull in a pen at his place near Malone, N. Y., and was gored to death t< Bishop Potter of New York and Mrs. Alfred Corning Clark, wealthy patroness of extensive charities, have been engaged to he married. 1 ** Dr. John H. Reiuoehl, a prominent physician of Lebanon, Pa., was killed and Dr. E. P. Marshall of Annville "’as seriously injured in a runaway accideut near Annville. _ Because of the loss of her pet pug dog, Mrs. Lizzie Hambright, 42 years of age, of Philadelphia, committed suicide. She said that she could not be happy without the pug, so she ended her life by asphyxiation. The seven-masted schooner Thomas W. Lawson was successfully launched In Boston. She was christened by Miss Helen Watson, daughter of Thomas A. W atson, president of the Fore River Ship and Engine Company. A $3,000,000 box ntid lumber combine has tyeen formed, with box shops and lumber yards scattered through the New England States. It is to be known as the Colonial Box and Lumber Company anil will have its headquarters in New York. The United States tru'ining ship Hartford reports that W. C. Forbes, an apprentice, aged 25 years, whose home is near Chicago, fell overboard when the Hartford was ten miles west of New London, Conn., in Long Island sound. He was drowned. Miss Evelyn Oldring, daughter of ene of the oldest and wealthiest families of Brooklyn, killed herself by inhaling illuminating gas. Miss Oldring had'been ailing and ;a fear that insanity might claim her sis a victim, as it hud another member of the family, was an always present horror to her. Col. Nathaniel McKay, aged 71 years, Jhe millionaire contractor and hotel man of Washington, died suddenly of heart failure at a beach front hotel in Atlantic City, while on his honeymoon trip with his bride of two weeks, who was formerly Miss Mabel G. Geyer of Washington and who is less than 80 years old. John Knvaeh was killed instantly and Roger Harvey, Sr., was seriously and John Yelis slightly injured by an explosion of dynamite in No. 34 mine of the Berwind-White Coal Company at Winber, Pa. Havacli was preparing a stick for use when it exploded, together with sixteen stiek-s- which were lying ttca-ft-Unknown persons raided the home of William llussmnn, a non-union man at Upper Lehigh. Pa., and after getting Hussman and wife out of bed attempted to burn the house. During the melee the stove was upset and all the furniture was destroyed. Neighbors extinguished the fire. Hiis-smau was led away by the marauder*. New York society lias heard that, after six years of widowhood, Mrs. Adolpli Ladenhurg, widow of the millionaire head of the Wall street firm of Ladenhurg, Thalman A Co., is again to wed. Her choice, so report says, is Jay Phipps, son of the partner of Andrew Carnegie. Mr. Phipps is only recently out of Harvard and is fifteen years Mrs. Ladenburg's junior. Captain Edwin St. J. Greble, U. S. A., instructor in artillery tactic*, and thvee cadets were injured In au accident during artillery drill at West Point, N. Y. Captain Greble, accompanied by six cadets, was taking n gun aloug a high embankment west of Highland Falls, when the horse Captain Greble was riding became unmanageable and leaped over the embankment, drawing the gun carriage with it. The euisson fell on Captain Greble, crushing both legs and injuring him in--ternally. Three cadets, who were riding on the caisson, were also badly injured. Due of the biggest of the Union Hailway Company’* trolley cars in New York crowded to the ruuniug board with passengers, sped unchecked down the hill approaching West Farms square in Tretuont avenue from the west, owing to a broken brake. As the runaway car struck the curve at the bottom of the hill it leaped from the tracks and hurled its load of passengers against three telegraph poles forming a triangle in the middle of the square. Men, woman and children were mingled in a struggling mass in the shattered woodwork and bent iron of the wrecked ear. Not one of she seveuty-five passengers escaped without some injury. Excitement ran so high following the accident that the police were unable to get the names of all.