Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1902 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Brigadier General Hamilton 8. Hawkina, U. S. A., retired, has been detailed aa Governor of the National Soldiers’ Home in Washington, aj Official returns of the Pennsylvania election give Penuypacker, Republican, for Governor, 592,867 votes, and Puttison, Democrat, 486,457. The annual assembly of the Knights of Labor has ended at Niagara Falls, N. Y. Milwaukee was chosen as the meeting place for next year. Edward Beddington, 0 years old, is dead at VVilkesbarre, Pa., from injuries received in a childish football scrimmage. He was hurt internally. With the determination to kill herself, Mrs. Helen Costello of Buffalo jumped into Niagara river, bus was rescued on the brink of the cataract. Robert Schroeder of the Duane-Frank-lin Company of Utica, N. Y., has filed a petition in bankruptcy, with debts amounting to $200,790 and no assets. Alonzo Ryan of the United States signal corps, who recently was on duty in the Philippines, blew out his brains at Highland Falls, N. Y., with a shotgun. Dr. George C. Lorimer of the Madison Avenue Baptist Church, New York, has declined to be considered as a candidate for the pastorate of Tremont Temple, Boston. Thirty-five thousand textile operatives in 800 mills in Philadelphia tfill make a demand upon their employers for a leduction of their hours of labor from sixty to fifty-five a week. Miss Marie Btrakosch, the opera singer, daughter of Max Strakosch, will soon wed Dr. George King, the wealthy son of the late millionaire, Deacon William King of Providence, R. I. As a result of a rear-end collision of an extra freight train and a light running engine on the Pennsylvania Railroad nt Bolivar, Pa., two men were killed, one seriously injured, and two engines demolished. The Royal Bine Baltimore ami Ohio Southwestern, St. Louis to New York, was wrecked twenty miles east of Washington. Several injured, one probably fatally. The flyer was running sixty miles an hour and struck a freight train head on. Information has been received in Pittsburg that 110 of the. presbyteries of the Presbyterian Church have voted in favor of the revision of the creed. It is a solid vote so far one way, and is almost one-half of the totiil number of presbyteries. Due to the freight blockade, there are idle in the Pittsburg district 59,600 men, who are losing in daily wages $162,000. Mills and shops are closed on all hands, while there is plenty of business offering which cannot be taken, because raw materials cannot be secured. The Central National Bank of Boston did not open Friday, the Comptroller of the Currency having ordered the bank examiner to close its doors and take charge of its business. The closing of the bank is said to be the result of excess bans and a lack of quick assets. Dread of being called to answer a charge of roughly treating one of her pupils is supposed to have been the cause of the suicide of Miss Celia Ettleson, a public school teacher, who died in New York after drinking carbolic acid. Bhe was the daughter of a Chicago merchant. The directors of the Philadelphia Master Builders' Exchange decided to adopt stringent measures looking to the protection of contractors whose employes resort to strikes to gain their demands. All of the twenty-three members of the board of directors were present and the vote to lock out striking workmen was unanimous. Fire caused thousands of dollars of damage to the magnificent residence in course of construction in Washington for Robert W. Patterson, the editor of the Chicago Tribune. The exact amount of damage cannot lie estimated. The building is to cost $850,000 and is the largest residence in the city. The fire ia attributed to spontaneous combustion. Herman Kaufman, 3-year-old son of a tobacco dealer living in New York, is dead from the effects of a fly bite. A few hours later a small spot made by the bite developed to a swelling which extended over tlie entire cheek. The swelling continued to spread until the whole upper portion of the child's body was distended. The doctors were powerless to give relief. At Camden, N. J., Paul Woodward was convicted of murder in the first degree for killing John Coffin, who, with Walter Price Jennings, was recently found dead in the woods nenr Collingswood. Woodward, who is 24 years of age, induced the two boys to accompany him to the woods, where during a luncheon he administered poison and robbed the children of their money. The race horses cost Miss Beatrice Halloran, aged 25 years and prominent in New York social circles, SI,BOO tills Benson. She is one of a dozen women losers who have employed Benjamin Stelnhardt, a New York lawyer, to get their money back. Mrs. Charlotte Weyant, a wealthy widow, has brought six suits to recover $1,500 lost by her son, King Weyant, on the different tracks last summer.