Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1903 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

William 1.. Elkins, Philadelphia, will build $500,000 home for orphan daughters of Pennsylvania Masons. Nate Salisbury, principal owner of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, died at his home in Long Branch, N. J. There has been an unusual series of fatalities in Greater New York in one day, nine persons meeting death by violence. Christian C. Itauck, aged 25 years, a farmer residing with his father near Paradise, Pa., was murdered by an unknown burglar whom ho caught iu the cellar. Eire did SSO,(MX) damage to the Goerke Company’s department store, the establishment of the Paris Cloak and Suit Company and the Hay Tailoring Company in Newark, N. J. By order of A. B. Woivin, general manager of the Pittsburg Steamship Company, the captains of all the boats of that company will receive an advance in WTJjfcs of ID per cent for the season of 1903. The Maxon block, opposite the Union Station iu Schenectady, N, Y., was totally destroyed by lire. The tire, which probably was caused by an overheated chimney, was a spectacular one. The total loss was SIOO,OOO. At Olivcdule, a hamlet near Bradford, Pa., Mrs. Edward Burdick shot John Hyatt dead in defense of herself. Ityan entered the woman’s house during her husband’s absence. A coroner’s jury returned a verdict of justifiable homicide. By tin* breaking of a scaffold on the big ice bouse in course of construction by the People’s Ice Company iu Erie, I’a., eight men were precipitated to the ground, - a distance of thirty-five feet. Three were seriously, if not fatally, injured.

While A, W. Williams of Hartford. Conn., aud his wife were at timber at the Westminster Hotel in Los Angeles, Cal., the lock of one of the doors leading into their apartments was picked, their trunks broken open and $3,000 worth of jewelry stolen. In full view of passing crowds a window in tin* pawnshop of H. Simpson & Co., in West *l2d street, New York, was smashed with a paving stone and SI,OOO worth of dihmonds stolen. Only three of the gems wen* recovered after the capture id' the robber. Six Brooklyn firemen are believed to have been killed by a falling wall at the cooperage plant of the Arbuckle sugar retmery. The bodies of Bat tali ai Chief Coppinger and the assistant foreman have been recovered. Others were buried under hot bricks. Heports that the bond conversion plan of the Cnited States Steel Corporation is to be modified or abandoned because of the recent acquisition of the. Union and Sharon steel companies were authoritatively’ denied in New York. The plan will be carried out as soon as the legal obstacles now pending are removed. The finding of the decapitated body of John Wax of Pittston on tin* Lehigh Valley Railroad tracks near. Wilkesbarre, Pa., points to a murder, there being no marks on the body such as would have been evident had Wax been killed by the cars. Wax worked during the coal strike and had been repeatedly threatened with bodily harm.

Hat poison sprinkled over a box of mixed candy was sent through tin* North Adams. Mass., postotfleo to Mrs. C. N. Beers, a woman living in Clarksburg, The woman detected a powder in the box when she opened the package, mid had it examined. The chemists say that there was enough poison in the box to kill a dozen persons. At Bradford, I’a., fire destroyed the Odd Fellows’ block, causing a loss of $150,000. Among the losers are the Star Publishing Company, the postotllee, Bauer's insurance agency aud tin* armory of Company C. National Guard While removing tin* occupants a ladder broke, precipitating four firemen to the Hour. Thaddeus Green was killed. Three buildings were burned to the ground and two hotels and the postotllee were damaged by lire at Braddock, l'a. Chief McMichaels of the tire departnteiit and Policeman George Y oung were injured by an explosion of gas in tin* Braznell building. The loss was $55,000. it is thought fire was caused by an overheated stove ia a restaurant. Pour bodies have been recovered from the Little Bedstone mine, two mil s above Fayette City, l’a., where an explosion occurred. There may be another victim beneath tin* pile of debris in one of the entries. The dead are victims .of their own carelessness, it is claimed by' the mine officials, because they deliberately passed a danger signal while carrying naked lamps.