Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1902 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

Luther R. Marsh, venerable jurist and famous Spiritualist, is dead in New Y’ork. Mrs. John 11. Drexel of New York received a birthday gift of $200,000 from her husband. Coal prices in New York have advanced again, being $9.00 wholesale for certain sizes of anthracite. A gasoline explosion in a Chinese laundry in Pittsburg, Pa., caused a fire in %hich Wing Lu, a Chinaman, was fatally burned and three houses were destroyed. John Driscoll, 53 years old, who was sent to the penitentiary for three months for intoxication, ended the term of his imprisonment at Buffalo, N. Y., by hanging himself. Mrs, Sarah Mackey died near Porterfield, Pa., as the result of constant sneezing. She sneezed S(H) times in an hour by actual count. Her physicians were unable to do anything for Iter relief. Charles L. Downes, a theatrical manager, ami his wife, Anna, were held up by three footpads in West Thirty-first street, Now Y’ork, garroted and robbed of jewelry and eash to the value of sl,152. Charles Post, Jr., aged 11 years, was run down by a train on the Pennsylvania Railroad in Pittsburg, and horribly mangled. He lived long enough to tell that he had been pushed under the train by his companions. Herbert E. Hill, the young man who murdered his sister and committed a murderous assault on his mother at their home in Roxbury, Mass.. July 8, was adjudged insane and ordered committed to an asylum. Levi Perham, aged 19. at inquest over body of Marcus Rogers at Bennington, Y’t., confessed that, assisted by Rogers’ wife, he bound her husband, chloroformed him and threw the helpless man into the YValloomsuc river.

Robert R. Remington, head of New York firm of advertising agents and former fiance of Miss May Van Alen, committed suicide at Newport. Breaking of engagement wjth young woman is thought to have a bearing on the tragedy. David T. Gilmore, former Mayor cf Paterson, N. J., in a fit of despondency ended his life with a bullet. Gilmore had consulted specialists and had been told that he was a victim of Bright's disease, and that he would become insane. In a tenement house tiro at 35 Essex Street, New York, three women and two children were burned to death, another woman was burned severely about the body and face ami a man's ribs were broken by jumping from a window to the pavement. Boston Museum, the oldest theater in Boston, and by far the most famous one, is doomed. It will be torn down at once to make room for a mammoth sky scraper, which will be occupied by lawyers’ offices. The deal involves considerably more than $2,000,000. William Malcolm, city treasurer .of Passaic, N. J., and secretary for twenty years of’the Mutual Loan, and Building Association of that city, admitted to the board of directors at a private meeting that he is short over SIOO,OOO in his accounts with the association. An attempt on the life of Robert E. Pattison, former Governor of Pennsylvania and present Democratic candidate for the same office, has been made by someone whose identity is unknown ns yet. A package containing several pounds of gunpowder in the form of small cakes or briquettes was sent to him, but by a chance the explosive was not ignited.