Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1902 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Charles Cnrr, colored, 21 years old, of Philadelphia, died at Westchester, Pa., from injuries received during a football game. John L. Sullivan, former pugilist, has filed a petition in bankruptcy in New York to prevent his arrest for debt in Boston. Safe blowers robbed the .postoffice at New Brighton, Pa., of between S6OO and S7OO in stamps and several hundred dollars in cash. ( Mrs. Hattie L. Whitten of Dexter, Me., under arrest charged with murdering her D-year-old girl, committed suicide by hanging in her cel). Deputy Police Commissioner Piper of New- York hns decided to send captains and mounted police to the West Point piilitary academy for special instructions V> horsemanship. E<l ward F. Croker, chief of New Y’ork fire department and nephew of Richard Croker, has been dismissed following conviction for appropriating public property to his own use. Fourteen men and one woman were rescued from steamer Charles Hebard on Mamaise Point, Luke Superior, after drifting twrnty-fmir hours in gale; ■teamer went to pieces on rocks. Richard A. Canfield’s gambling hinisq. West Forty-fourth street, New York, was raided by District Attorney Jerome and police nt* 11 p. m.; layouts were seized, but Canfield was not arrested. The battle for and against tlie revision of the creed in the Pittsburg presbytery was won by those favoring revision. When it came to a final vote on the question the vote stood: For, 78; against, 4(5. Eire in the factory building nt 442 Broadway, New York, caused SIOO,OOO damage. Burchell Bros., umbrella manufacturers, in whose premises the fire Started, sustained a loss of about $75,000. The merger of the Shnron Steel Company and the Union Steel Company has become operative. The new combination will start with a capital of $40,000,000. It will be known as the Union Steel Company, v Fire daiimged the county workhouse at Wilmington, Del., $200,000. One prisoner escaped and several others made a desperate fight before the guards and police succeeded in transferring them to a place of safety. The main building of the Twenty third street branch of the Young Men's Christian Association in New York was badly damaged by a fire that broke out in a store in the basement.* The loss is estimated at $20,000. Gray'c. inn, one of the best known summer hotels in the White Mountains, whs burned to the ground, together with Woodbury Hall and all outbuil lings, including two cottages and the Casino. The total loss is $175,000. Benjamin Watson and his wife Elizabeth, an aged collide, lost their lives in a fire which destroyed their small cottage at Newport. R. I. Mrs. Watson in going, upstairs with a lighted lamp in her bands made a misstep and fell. August (list, a traveler bound from Chicago to Ni T w Y’ork, who served on the ship Mouoency during the Spanish-Amer-ican war, was found in the railroad station at Rochester. N. Y’.. the head severed from the body by n train. Four men were killed, three fatally and live seriously injured by the explosion of gas in the Luke Eidler colliery nt Shamokin, Pa. Officials lire conducting an investigation, but have not yet ascertained the cause of the explosion. James B. Markoe, n prominent banker and society man of Philadelphia, was killed in u runaway accident. Clarence Dunbar, the footman: George Tomlinson, the coachman, and Harry Grady, a pedestrian, who attempted to stop the frightened horses, were badly injured. Believing the shot from his revolver had killed Mrs. Julia Gerber, who refused to elope with him. Max Sukawntsky, an Austrian, leaped through the window of her apartments in East Seventy-fourth street. New Y'ork. He fell seven atori‘s to the sidewalk and wus killed instantly. One of the Inst acts of the Phi Delta Theta convention in New York was the removal of an incumbrance on the home at Fulton, Mo., of Mrs. Robert Morrison, widow of the founder, and the granting to her of an annuity. Robert Morrison, while a student at Miami in 1848. with five others, organized the fraternity. A carriage containing Mrs. George E. VY'eyl, wife of a New Y’ork broker, raid her two sisters, whose home is in Atlanta, Ga., fell from a bridge near Caldwell, N. J. Miss Annie Sewnll was seriously cut about the head ami injured internally. It is feared she will not recover. In the arrest of Mrs. John Williams, whose husband was arrested in Philadelphia on suspicion of murdering two of his children to get the insurance money on their lives, the police of that city think they have a clew to n big conspiracy to defraud. After a searching investigation by the coroner enough was learned to cause both husband nnd wife to be held.