Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1902 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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; T. Bn rnes of Chicago husdbeCn denied : the privilege of trying to cross Niagara Falls on a tight rope. Two persons' were killed and three injured by an automobile plunging over an embankment near Long Branch, N. J. The four children of William Kronberg and his servant girl were suffocated in a fire in a two-and-a-half-story house at Portland, Me. President Roosevelt made a special journey to Newport to act as godfather for Roosevelt Ward Chanler, son of Mr. and Mrs. Winthrop Chanler. Henry Tygon.Detwiler, the alleged defaulting accountant of the City Trust and ‘'Deposit Company of Philadelphia, has been arrested at San Francisco. George Hoadly, former Governor of Ohio and widely known as a corporation lawyer, died in Watkins, N. Y., aged 76 years. He had been ill for some time. Admiral Higginson's squadron captured the ships under Commander Pillsbury off New England const, bringing the naval maneuvers to an end with victory for the defenders. Miss Julia Lamont, daughter of ex-Sec-rctary of War Daniel S. Lamont, died at her father’s cottage at Sorrento. Me. Miss Lamont had been in poor health for some time. The body of Joel Hutton, a fireman, has been found in the ruins of the Delaware pulp works at Wilmington, Del., making the total deaths from the recent explosion seventeen. One man was killed and five injured in a head-on collision between two Baltimore and Ohio freight trains in Claysville” tunnel, near Pittsburg. Both engines and a number of cars were demolished. Rev. Robert Nor.se, the well-known Congregational minister and lecturer, was stricken with heart failure while in the pulpit of the First Congregational Church in Washington. His recovery is hoped for. The world's wagon record on a halfmile track was broken at the South Norwalk, Conn., fair grounds by a pair of horses driven by their owner, E. T. Bedford of Green’s Farms. The time trade for the mile was 2:15i.\. The body of Miss Olivo Broad, a mid-dle-aged woman who resided on the outskirts of Cornish, Me., was found in a clump of bushes with the skull crushed. The ‘woman had evidently been murdered. The motive is thought to have been robbery. An inspection of the Maurice river cove oyster beds by Thomas C. Covington, one of the largest wholesale oyster dealers in Philadelphia, shows that this year’s yield of oysters will exceed in numbers that of any former season for a full decade. It is estimated that the coal and iron policemen guarding the idle collieries in four counties of the Pennsylvania anthracite region number 5,000. The employment of so many special guards has necessitated nn expenditure by the companies to date of $1,800.000. In Buffalo, N. Y., while Policeman Orville Schickler was guarding three prisoners in a patrol wagon late the other night one of them drew a revolver and shot Schickler through the head. As soon ns the shot was tired all the prisoners made their escape and, it is- thought, left the city. Schickler may die. William I). Holdredge, 22 years old, of Medina, N. Y., met his death while flying a kite. Holdredge mounted the roof of a building owned by his father in order to get the benefit of a strong current of air. He was paying out the kite when a gust of wind carried his hat away. In trying to catch it he fell end was killed. Mrs. Josephine Vollmer, aged 51 years, and her niece, Mary Miller, aged 12 years, were found dead in bed nt their home in New York. They had been as? phyxiated by illuminating gas which poured into their bedroom from a fixture intended for both stove and gas jet, nnd a coroner who made an investigation said the case was one- of homicide and suicide.