Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1902 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

Tenants of the Hathaway building In Boston suffered a loss of $150,000 by, fir*. Commissioner of Police John N. Partridge of New York has resigned, to take effect Jan. 1. The New York Board of Aldermen men voted $250,000 to buy coal for the poor of the city. Fire caused a loss estimated at $250,000 in the seven-story Chase building at Worcester, Mass. Mrs. U. 8. Grant, widow of the former President, died at her home in Washington of heart failure. J. Wilfred Blyondin, the Boston man charged with wife murder, was found guilty of murder in the second degree. Rudolph Reimer, Brooklyn coal merchant, threatened in anonymous letter with having his house burned if he raises prices. Three lives were lost in a tenement house fire in First avenue, New York, near One Hundred and Twenty-sixth street. The business section of Centerville, Md.,' suffered by fire to the extent of $150,000, on which there is insurance of SBO,(XX). John W. Kla, president of the Chicago Civil Service Reform League, died in a Philadelphia hospital, the result of a stroke of paralysis. The tug Clara Clarita rescued the crew of sixteen men of the wrecked tug Astral, who for several days had been storm bound on Mount Desert rock off the Maine coast. Walter E. Duryea, young New Yorker who broke his neck while, diving, lives to inherit $1,000,000 and other property, and physicians hold out hope that lie may yet be able to walk. Boston's newest woman’s club is the Mothers’ Birthday Club of America, organized to encourage the coining of the stork and placing a premium upon births of children. It has been incorporated. Three colored girls, aged 2,4, and 7 years, children of Louis Smith, were burned to death in a 10th Htrcet tenement house, in New York. Ttie parents went out, leaving the children in bed asleep.' Murder in the second degree was the verdiat returned in Boston against J. Wilfred Hlondin, who for more than two weeks has been on trial in the Suffolk County Superior Court charged with wife murder. Charles Spindler was shot by a Baltimore and Ohio Railroad guard while attempting to get a bag of coal front a car on a siding in Baltimore, The man claims that he was taking the coal for a family In his neighborhood that is suffering. The National Indian Association closed its twenty-third annual convention in Washington, D. C., after adopting resolutions urging legislation for the relief of the Navajos in Arizona, and other legislation in the interest of the Indians. Maj. Joint Hancock, chief of the stationery division of the pension bureau, father-in-law of the director of the census and a relative of Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock, was stricken with paralysis at his desk. He is in a serious condition. Quarantine officials admit that three cases of bubonic plague are under treatment in the Swinburne Island hospital, New York. The met! arrived in the Prince liner Saxon Prince from Durban, South Africa, and the phtguu la well defined in all three cases. The large five-story structure occupied by J. L. Connell & Co., wholesale grocers, at 115 Franklin avenue, Scranton, l’a., was destroyed by fire, together with the contents of the building. Four firemen were slightly injured. The loss is estimated at $175,000, fully covered by insurance. By the explosion of nn acetylene gas tank at Fort Lee, N. J., the residence of John i’uglughi was demolished, his six children instantly killed and his wife so seriously injured ttiat she will die. The mother was found 200 feet from where the explosion took place, her right arm almost torn from her body. In an address to the members of the Patriu Club of New York Gen. Fitzhtigh Lee said: "I want to say here and for all time that Gen. Blanco and his officers hud no more to do Mfith the blowing up of the Maine than had the people of New York City. It is my belief that some of the young officers left in the nrscnal by Gen. Weyler blew up the Maine.” An autopsy held" at Ballston, N. Y., on the body of Martin C. Abbey, the old man who was found dead in Zadoc Miller's burning farm house, disclosed a pistol wound above the right ear and a bullet in the brain. The coroner's jury rendered a verdict tit at Abbey, having first set fire to the house, went to his room und shot himself while suffering front mental aberration. The Pennsylvania Railroad has purchased the Hocking Valley Ruilroad and the Lnke Shore is to get the Ohio Central. This further carries out the apportionment among these big Interests of railroad property east of Chicago and St. Louis nnd also puts an end to the movement having for its object the combination of all soft coal carrying railroads in Ohio. This information was obtained from a reliable source, ami the absorption of the two smaller roads is expected early next year.