Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1902 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

Lightning struck St. Peter’s Church at Galilee, N. J., during the sermon Sunday. W. L. Ba thour has been nominated for Congress hj the Republicans of the Sixth New Jersey District. Senator Quay narrowly escaped death in liis fishing smack off Atlantic City when a storm came up. Carlos Zaldo, Secretary of State of Cuba, has arrived in New York and proceeded immediately to Liberty. J*. Y., where his wife was seriously ill. Portion of human skeleton has been found under the basement of the White house at Washington by workmen excavating for new heating apparatus. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt has announced the engagement of her son, Keginald, and Cathleen Neilsou. youngest daughter of Mrs. Frederick Neilson. Harold Hartshorne, 0 years old, of New York, has been sued for $50,000 damages by his former governess, who says he administered a beating to her. Miss Anna I>. Collier, a school teacher of Worcester, anil Miss Jean Brown of Detroit, summer guests at Hull, Mass., were drowned in the surf while bathing. The National Dentai Association, in session at Niagara Falls, elected L. G. Knowles of Nashville, Teun., president, and A. 11. Peck of Chicago recording secretary. Willard C. Van Derlip, a prominent Boston lawyer, arrested for the larceny of bonds valued at $4,000, has admitted dissipating $200,000 estate of which he had the care. Four were seriously hurt, scores knocked down and thousands in panic'as result of premature bomb explosion at competitive fireworks display ut Mount Vernon, near New York. A head-on collision between milk trains on the Ontario und Western Railroad, at Horton's, X. Y.. resulted in the death of three persons, the Wrecking of two engines and the ditching of several cars. Barefooted and tattered, Charles Howard, the famous old-time minstrel, Was picked up on the street in Baltimore, find Justice Lewis sent him to the poorhouse for one year on the charge of vagrancy. Mrs. Elizabeth Meyer, under indictment at Buffalo, N. Y.. for murdering her husband, I>r. Jacob F. Meyer, a prominent young physician and societyman, has been taken to the Buffalo State hospital a raving maniac. - The Shenango tin plate mill at Newcastle, Pa., the largest of its kind in tin* world, shut down for an indefinite period. Officials say it is due to market stagnation and not in retaliation for refusal of the men to accept a wage cut. The coroner’s jury investigating the Lehigh Valley Railroad wreck in Rochester, X. Y„ iu which one was killed and a score injured, charges criminal negligence to Conductor Frank De La Vergne and Engineer Daniel Connolly. The proposition made by the American Tin Plate Company of Pittsburg to its employes, that they accept a reduction ill wages of 25 per cent, has been rejected. Another conference between the company und Amalgamated Association officials has been arranged for. Walter M. Smith, treasurer and general manager of the Greenwood division of the. Mount Vernon Woodberry Cotton Duck Company, has received notilieati >n from the company's head offices at Baltimore that the Greenwood mills, in Connecticut, which has 700 employes, will shut down Sept. I for an indefinite period. After fighting for three minutes on the twelfth floor of the uncompleted Commonwealth Trust Company's building, in Philadelphia, nearly 200 feet above the street, Joseph Touieny, a laborer, struck his fellow workman. Walter Hoffman, twice with a brick and then pushed him headlong down the elevator shaft to death. A letter containing $25,000 worth of notes was lost on Wednesday last somewhere between Boston and Lowell, in the mails. The package was sent by Blake Brothers, bankers, to a correspondent in Lowell, the actual mailing being done by a trusted employe who put a special delivery stamp on the package before mailing it. He did not register it. Hubert Innes of Thomaston, Conn.. who was slightly shocked by lightning during n recent storm, has had his hearing completely restored to him. During the last twenty years Mr. Innes had suffered from deafness, but when he recovered from tho effects of the lightning shuck he could hear a clock tick and now can hear as well as before he became a til let ed. The Italian steamer Sardegna, from Genoa and Naples, arrived iu New York towing the American schooner Notice of Providence, It. 1., from Brava, Cape Verde Islands, with sixty-fonr persons on hoard. Captain Montana of the Sardegna said he found the Notice disabled and drifting helplessly with the gulf stream. John F. Pina, the schooner's mate, reported that the Notice was disabled by a squall.