Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1902 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

Fire caused a loss of SIOO,OOO in the tool shop of the Jones & Laughlin steel plant at Pittsburg, Pa. Herbert Jacques, well known in society and a wealthy architect, lost his left eye while playing golf on the. Country Club links at Brookline, Mass. At Khuron, Pa., the Morgan Opera House was ruined by fire. The loss is $85,000 jtnd insurance $15,000. The loss of Druggist Steel is $2,500. Three trainmen were almost instantly killed by the explosion of n boiler of a Baltimore and Ohio locomotive at Halethorp, seven .miles west of Baltimore. Mrs. Maria Fox Smith, the last member of the family of Fox sisters, the originators of modern spiritualism, died at Newark, N. Y., at the age of 85 years. A freight brukeman was killed and a freight conductor slightly injured in n rear-end collision between two freights five miles west of Schenectady on the New York Central. Mayor Tom L. Johnson, Cleveland, struck tax clerk who had called him a liar during a street meeting, in the face, knocking him down; police had to rescue Mayor from crowd. The New York Produce Exchange held a meeting and ratified the action of its committee on canals in favor of deepening the Erie canal to twelve feet to permit the passage of 1,000-tou barges. Worry over the recent Louisville and Nashville deal is believed to have hastened the death of Samuel H. Edgar, formerly second vice-president of that road, who died in a New Jersey sanitarium. President Mitchell lias filed with the strike arbitration commission statement of miners, giving arguments why demands for advanced wages, shorter hours and recognition of union should be granted. M oses Wilson, a farm laborer, shot rnd mortally wounded his wife at Leroy, N. Y. The man then shot himself, inflicting wounds which, it is said, will prove fatal. Domestic trouble is given as the cause of the tragedy. By a sudden rush of gas, supposed to have been sulphuretted hydrogen, four men were killed and three seriously affected near the Twenty-fourth street heading of the big tunnel trunk sewer at Niagara Falls. By a premature explosion of fireworks in Madison Square, New York, ten persons were killed and nearly fifty seriously injured. The explosion took place among the fireworks that were to in* set off to celebrate the announcement of the election returns. Two hundred and fifty boys, inmates of the New Y'ork juvenile asylum, made a concerted break for freedom the other day. Fifty of the hoys succeeded in escaping, but twenty-three of them were recaptured after two hours. Those at large range in ago from 10 to 10 years. John Nettdel of Chicago, an iron worker employed on the new Land Title and Trust Company’s building in Philadelphia, was killed by the fall of an iron girder. Nettdel was being hoisted to the top of the building on the girder, when at the eighth floor the hoisting arm gave way. An order lias been issued by the Navy Department and forwarded to the naval academy at Annapolis providing for a three year instead of n four year course at the naval academy for an indefinite period. This is the most sweeping change in tlve academy curriculum which lias taken place for years, and is made on account of the pressing need of naval officers. •