Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1902 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

In a freight wreck on the Pennsylvania Railroad near Conemaugh, Pa., Fireman George FreemanWf Pitcairn was killed. Fire damaged the six-story building and stock of the Duquesne Sanitary Company at 220 and 228 Third avenue, Pittsburg, to the extent of $50,000. Peter Hernia was hanged in the county jail at Hackensack, N. J., for the murder of Barney Kanter, a butcher, but before his execution was accomplished Hernia made a desperate fight. Fifteen hundred factory operatives employed by the American Iroq and Steel Company,, who went on strike on Aug. 29 at Lebanon, Pa., have returned to work, the strike having been declared off. Two local passenger trains on the Pittsburg and Western Railroad collided near Witmer, Pa. Both trains were wrecked and Engineer Benedict was killed and four other trainmen were Injured. Anthracite coal strikers destroyed dam and bridge and wrecked home of nonunion miner with dynamite near Wilkesbarre: railroads have been seized, troops called out and shipments made under guard. The American Board of- Foreign Missions nt Boston has received $57,933 through the Rtate Department as 25 per cent of the award made on mission property in the Boxer outrages of 1900.

Fire in the Mutual building in Allegheny destroyed the stock of the Wheeler Paint Company. Harry Glees, an employe, was fatally burned. Loss $50,000, fully insured. The fire was caused by an explosion of oil in the cellar. The nude body of a young woman was found in the Morris canal between Ntwark and Jersey City and was identified by Joseph Pulitzer of New York as his wife Annie, who had been missing for three days. Pulitzer is detained by the police. Three firemen were injured and twen-ty-five horses burned to death in a fire in a large livery stable at 525 East Sixtyeighth street, New Y’ork. Two of the injured men were taken to the hospital, where it was feared their injuries would prove fatal. The financial loss was small. David M. Goughner, a well-known young man, shot and seriously wounded Miss Leorena Winnebrenner, aged 17, near her home in Conemaugh, Pn.,. and then sent a bullet into his own heart, dying instantly. Jealousy and a desire for revenge are given as the causes for act.

Dr. Daniel L. Wasser of Pittsburg, a typhoid fever patient in the West Penn hospital, was given an injection of carbolic acid instead of oil by the nurse and in a short time died. The nurse had two bottles nt hand, one of oil and the other of carbolic acid. The acid was administered by mistake. The barbed wire department of the Oliver plant of the American Steel and Wire Company was destroyed by fire nt Pittsburg. The loss is $150,000. The fire was caused by the explosion of a lamp, which in turn caused the explosion of a barrel of oil in the oil room nnd in a short time the entire building was in flames. John F. O'Sullivan, labor editor of the Boston Globo and one of the best known labor lenders in New England, was rr.n over and killed by a train at Lynn, Mass. He hud come to Lynn to address a meeting and on leaving his train fell across another track upon which a train was making a flying switch, and he was beheaded. Seven-year-old Girt Deaven of Schuylkill Haven, Pu„ proved himself to be a gallant little hero. Miss Eva Heim, who was canoeing on the Schuylkill river, was upset about fifty feet from the shore. There was no help in sight save the little boy, who was playing on a small raft moored at the shore. He saw the woman's peril, and using a pole pushed the raft out into the river. Though almost drowned, the woman had strength left to cling to the raft until her screams attracted help.

Lebanon, Pa., was in a state of excitement Monday night. There was firing of pistols for hours in the vicinity of the American iron and steel works, where a strike was in progress. The negroes who had Just arrived to take strikers' places at the works were terrified, as were the colored citizens in the vicinity. About midnight William Hoffman, aged 17, was shot and he died in the hospital. He was a messenger in the office of the American Iron and Steel Company nnd had attended an entertainment in the opera house. On his way home he was struck by a bullet.