Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1902 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Fire at Titusville, Pa., caused a loss of $65,000; Insurance $35,000. The Hubbard Fertilizing Company at Canton, Md., suffered a loss of SIOO,OOO by fire. Ex-Justice Horace Gray of the United States Supreme Court died at his residence in Nahant, Mass., of paralysis. Nicholas Fish, financier and brother of president of Illinois Central Railroad, was slain by an unknown man in a New York beer hall. William F. Morrison, chaplain of the cruiser Olympia, committed suicide by shooting through the head at the naval hospital in Boston. Thomas Sharkey, a detective, and two women have been held by the coroner in Connection with the death of Nicholas Fish, New York banker, as result of fight in a saloon. The Brighton abattoir in Boston has been purchased by the Swifts. This transfer is generally regarded as conclusive proof of the merging of beef and packing plants. George Huber, n New York manufacturer, shot and killed his wife on the street at Monterey, Mass., and attempted the life of her companion, a concert hall singer named Fearing. Col. James B. Burbank of the artillery corps commanding the post of Fort Hancock, N. J., has been retired. Lieut. Col. 8. M. Mills will become colonel and Maj. C. Chase lieutenant eoolnel. Twelve cars loaded with freight and three tank cars containing gasoline burned on the Pennsylvania Railroad between Bagada and Kiskimietas Junction, Pa. The total loss is estimated at SBO,OOO. Ridgeview camp meeting grounds at Millwood, a few miles east of Derry, I’a., were vWrited by a mysterious fire, which destroyed forty-five cottages, the hotel and a store. Most of the cottages had just been built. The statement was made at a session of the American Pharmaceutical Association at Philadelphia that the increased use of narcotics has become alarming. It was shown that the use of cocaine had increased sixfold in five years. The large factory of the East Laktf Woolen Mills Company at Bridgeton, N. J., of which J. Edward Addicks of Delaware is the head, was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of SIOO,OOO. Two hundred men and women are made idle. The McKinley National Memorial Association has received a check for $15,000 from Thomas Dolan, who is looking after contributions from the eastern half of Pennsylvania. The donors, fifteen in number, are unnamed Philadelphians. 11. J. K intzer, a Reading, Pa., policeman, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in causing the death of George Tipton, a negro. Kiutzer arrested Tipton and in the struggle the policeman’s pistol was discharged, killing the negro.

Miss Edith Nagle, daughter of' T. M. Nagle, an Erie, I’a., millionaire, made a desperate attempt to end her life by slashing her throat with a big carving knife. Of late she has been suffering from an indisposition which made her very melancholy. The hotly of a young woman, who, it is believed, was murdered, was found on pier 30 East river, New York. She had been beaten and choked until her face was almost black. The police have found no clew to her identity or any trace of her murderer. Chief of Police Thomas Cooley and Eugene Rollins were seated in a hotel office at Wilton, N. IL, conversing. When they rose to leave for home Cooley's revolver case caught on the chair and the weapon, falling to the floor, was discharged, the bullet passing through Rollins’ hea.rt. W. J. Whitehouse, the Quay leader of Schuylkill County, I’a., has discovered a vein of coal in his back yard, at Pottsville. The find was made accidentally while a hole was being made in which to bury a dead chicken. Mr. Whitehouse has already taken out about fifteen tons.

The strike at the J. G. Brill car works, Philadelphia, Pa., has been declared off after thirteen weeks’ duration. The men struck because twenty-two men had been discharged and the employes claimed the discharges were made because the men were uniorfists. The strike was declared off without any concessions. Three men had a remarkable escape when the boiler of one of the freight locomotives of the Pennsylvania Railroad exploded with force enough to smasffi the massive engine into fragments. The men were riding on the locomotive, and received severe injuries by being shot a considerable distance into the air. Col. John G. Garnett, one of the most prominent Southerners in New York, a West Point graduate, colonel of artillery under Gen. Robert E. Lee in the Confederate army and a native of Wakefield plantation. Virginia, was found dead in the Ross Hotel in New Y’ork. He had committed suicide by taking carbolic acid. In the Criminal Court at Carlisle, Pa., George ’Thompson, Gabriel Mellitt, Joseph Mills and James Browning, Indian pupil* at the government school, were arraigned, charged with placing obstructions on the tracks of the Cumberland Valley Railroad near Carlisle. On account of their youth the court suspended sentence and reprimanded them.