Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1902 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

Fire in the piano factory of Ernest Gabler A Brothers, in New York, causes a loss of $500,000. The terminal station of the Long Island City Railroad at Long Island City was destroyed by tire. Loss SOO,OOO. Winston Churchill has been appointed an aid-de-camp, with the rank of colonel, by Governor-elect Ilacheldler of New Hampshire. At Melrose, Mass., Mrs. Mary Ashton Livermore on Friday observed the eigh-ty-second anniversary of her birth. Mrs. Livermore is still very active. President Baer and other coal operators are sincere but mistaken men in the opinion of John Mitchell, president of the mine workers’ organization. Unrequited love is said to have been the reason why Herman llelseher shot and mortally wounded Voltairino Le Cleyre, a noted anarchist, nt PhifiuK-l-* phin. Albert E. Swift, aged 53 years, the originator of the “Johnstown Flood’’ at the Pan-American Exposition, died suddenly in a Turkish bath in New York of heart failure. On its official trial over the Cnpe Ann course the United States monitor Nevada made an average speed of 12.05 knots, exceeding the contract requirement of 11.5 knots. The steamer S. K. Martin pud the schooners Charles Spademan and Hanscomb of Marine City have been released from their dangerous position in the Lake Erie ice crush. The Ilev. George K. McDonald, pastor of a Baptist church on Long Island, who recently accused his parishioners of teaching him to drink, has started a saloon urid tends bar himself.

An explosion of natural gas in the boarding house of Mrs. Laura Itickards in Pittsburg, resulted in the probably fatal burning of one man and the serious injury of two others. Alexander M. Bartow, a member of the exclusive Indian Harbor Yacht Club and well-known society man, is missing and his employer claims to have found a shortage of $15,000 in his books. While a train of twenty cars loud.-d with con! was standing on a siding in the tenement district in Ansonin, Conn., a raid was made by 200 men, women and children, and over ten tons of coal were carried away. lugleshle School, a large and fashionable seminary for young women at New Milford, Conn., conducted by Mrs. William I>. Black, wits partly destroyed by a lire of unknown origin, ntid caused damage estimated at $40,000. Miss Eigie Bowen, prima donna of the San Toy company, playing in Baltimore, and daughter of former Director Forsyth of the Chicago Conservatory of Music, eloped to l’liiladelphia with S. Mantig, a member of Sousa’s Band. The jury in the case of Thomas J. Sharkey, accused of the murder of Niehlas Fish, the banker, returned a verdict in New York of manslaughter in tfie second degree and recommended that the mercy of the court be exercised. Official report of the burning of a car load of Christmas mail on route for the West was made at Syracuse, N. Y. Only twenty or thirty out of seven or eight hundred pouches were saved, the burned mail being for ('bicago and points further -west. The Ashing schooner Manhasset arrived in Boston with ten survivors of the wrecked schooners Frank A. Palmer and Louise li. (Vary, which were in collision oil Thatcher’s Island, on hoard. Eleven or more sailors were killed in the collision or were drowned or died from exposure. Notice has been received nt the office of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tinworkers in Pittsburg!,from the Hepnhlie Iron and Steel Company*' that u plan for making the workmen in those plants stockholders in the company will lie presented to the next convention ut Columbus.

Isaac H.-Radford, manager and president of the West Side lee Company »f Chicago until 1897, has been sentenced to a year's imprisonment in Auburn State prison and fined SSOO in the United States Court for furnishing straw hail for Chinamen under arrest for violating the-Ghi-Peso exclusion net. A three-masted steam schooner, going up stream, sank in the North River off 42d street, New York. Three men escaped in a rowliout and landed on the Jersey side of the river. Those who saw the schooner sink say it suddenly keeled over, as if it had struck some obstruction, und went down almost instantly. Laborers who have been working to put in readiness for resumption the Breaker Island steel plant, formerly the property of the Troy Steel Company, in Albany, have been notified that their services are no longer needed. It is announced that the plant has been purchased by the United States Steel Corporation for $1,500,000, and that in nil probability the works will not be operated. Suffering severely from exposure and privation, seven shipwrecked men and one woman arrived in Philadelphia on the British steamer Mira, Captain Swartmore, from Newcastle -un-Tyne. They were C. 11. Clements, owner of the British schooner .1. N. W.vlde, Captain Dunph.v, his wife and live seamen. They were taken from the dismantled ntld sinking schooner by the crew of the Mira.