Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1902 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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A fire which at one time threatened all the principal buildings of Bethlehem, Conn., waa stayed by a shift of the wind. Two soldiers were killed by premature discharge of gun at Fort Wright during a mock engagement with fleet of Higginson. Ada Gray, who made her success on the stage as the heroine in "East Lynne,” died alt New York and Was buried by the Actors’ Fund. President Roosevelt, speaking at Fitchburg, Mass., warned his hearers against radical action on combines which might endanger prosperity of all. Asbury Dixon, colored, was hanged at Snow Hill, Md., for wife murder. Previous to the execution he was baptized by immersion in a bathtub. Stratton D. Brooks, for two years professor of education at the University of Illinois, has been elected assistant superintendent of the schools of Boston, Mass. Merchants of the anthracite region have made direct appeal to President Roosevelt to intercede. Gen. Gobin ordered troops to shoot without orders persons who attack them. McCullough, regular Republican nominee for Governor in Vermont, failed to secure u majority and election was thrown into Legislature. Republicans were success fill ou rest of ticket. At York, Pa., 1 fire supposed to be of Incendiary origin started in the rear portion of the Palace of Amusement building, spread to several adjoining buildings and destroyed property valued at $150,000. David Gossnrd died in Hagerstown, Md., aged 75 years. He was twice married and the father of twenty-four children, twenty of whom are living. He is survived also by eighty grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren. Job Murray Williams, colored, has confessed at Hridgeton, N. J., that he set fire to the barn in which Farmer John S. Holmes and his housekeeper were burned to death, in order to rob their house to get money with which to marry. A large automobile was struck by a boulevard car in New York, hurled against the flimsy railing lining the subway excavation, which gave way under its weight, and was precipitated into the subway, a fall of thirty feet, ami the driver, Edward Morris, was fatally injured. ' f> -i. * The torpedo-boat destroyer Barry, built by the Neafie At Levy Shipbuilding Company of I’hilndelphia, ran a successful endurance test over the Barren Island course. The government contract calls for an average, speed of twenty-seven knots. This the Burry exceeded by half a knot. Savabie, a Western colt, sired by Salvator, won the Futurity at Sheepsnoad Bay. John A. Drake, the Chicago millionaire, who captured the Derby at Chicago this summer, owned the colt, which was trained by Enoch Wishard, a Western man, and ridden by Lucieu L.vnc, also a Western product. Following close upon the recent announcement made by Harvard that the collegiate course in that institution had been altered.so as to permit a student to complete it in three years instead of four, comes the announcement from the University of Pennsylvania that a similar change hud been made in its curriculum. Albert Terrell, n negro pugilist, died in a Philadelphia hospital, where he was taken after a boxing bout with William Stokes, also a negro, at the Golden Gate Athletic Club. Terrell fell from the effects of u blow, it is said, his- head striking the floor. At the hospital it was learned that bis skull had been fractured. One woman was killed and several others suffered from shocks and burns i-s the result of a fire which started ou the first floor of a five-story fiat house in W est 121st street, New York. The dead woman was Mrs. Eva Arendt, who lived on the fourth floor of the house. She jumped from a window and died in a hospital of her injuries. The other women who were hurt will recover. The money loss was SIO,OOO.