Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1903 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Prof. Burt G. Wilder of Cornell University declares that the orangoutang, and not the gorilla, is next to man. Paul RevereI’s 1 ’s old home of pre-revolu-tionary fame in Boston has been bought by John P. Reynolds, Jr., who will preserve it. Fire in the Pittsburg Stair Company, Pittsburg, Pa., caused a loss of $5,000 and the death of Edward Reilly, a watchman. A certificate of incorporation for the Lorenz Orthopedic Charity Hospital has been tiled with the New York State board of charities. Six hundred carriage workers of Amesbury,. Alaas., struck following a refusal of the manufacturers to grant 12 per cent increase in wages. Hetty Green has been sued by the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company to recover taxes paid on her land in Cook County by mistake. Engineer Harris Belding of Con'ienut was killed and Brakeman Gherlein of Erie dangerously injured in a collision between Nickel Plate freight trains near Fairview, Pa. Mrs. E. M. Miller and Miss Ida St >ry of Connellsville, Pa., and Mrs. Usury Helse], East Liverpool, Ohio, were injured in a wreck on the Pennsylvania “Toad near Connellsville. I’a. Meinay Kennedy, chorus girl at Wallack’s Theater, New Y'ork. Idel suit tor $2,250 damages against Mrs.’ Margaret Jackson, her landlady, for alienating Ibo affections of her dog Snowflake. The new torpedo-boat destroyer MacDonough, in a trial at Provincetown. Mass., exceeded contract requirement of twenty-eight knots an hour, making two runs at an average speed of 28.02. —The-firsn’tephant eVer electrocuted in the United States met death in a 0,000 volt current at Coney Island, New York. The elephant was Topsy, a “rogue,” which had killed three men and recently had become so unmanageable that death was decreed by her owners. A wild engine, running from Burlington to Rutland, Vt., on the Rutland Railroad, crashed into the north-bound flyer from New York at Shelburne. The crews of both engines were killed and a brakeman who was riding on the w ild engine was probably Litally hurt. The Portland Hotel, the largest and finest structure at Atlantic Highlands,” N. J., was destroyed by tire. Burning embers were carried a long distance, endangering the business section of the town, but a heavy rain prevented further spread. Estimated loss. $50,1)00. George B. Askew, an engineer on the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad, was struck by an upright at Big Elk Creek, near Elkton, Md., and hurled from his cab into the stream, which was a raging torrent by reason of heavy rains. He was swept away and drowned. Boston is to have a mammoth coal company which, its promoters say, will smash the <oal trust and supply the public with cheap fuel, through Boston as the distributing point. The new company will be as powerful as any ever organized. It is backed by the vast wealth and resources of the Rothschilds. k Three of the biggest coal companies in the United States have formed an alliance, which, for all practical purposes, will be a combination. The companies involved are: The Consolidation Coal Company of Maryland, the Fairmount Coal Company of West Virginia, the Somerset Coal Company of Pennsylvania. At Bath, Pa., a trestle bridge which the B.ilh and Northampton Railroad is building swung from its abutments with a locomotive and seven loaded cinders cays, together with the laborers and carpenters. Lafayette Schall, carpenter, had several ribs fractured and was seriously cut about the head. The damageto property is about SIO,OOO. Abandoned workings of the Eddy creek colliery of the Delaware and Hudson Company beneath the very heart of the town of Olyphant, Pa., caved in and engulfed four frame buildings covering an aggregate ground space of 0,000 square feet. The setting was gradual ami people in the affected territory escaped without being imniediatldy endangered. Mrs. Lelia Mansion and George Wilson, who have been held in the Brooklyn, Conn., jail for some time on account of the suspicion that they were connected with the death of Wilson’s mother by poisoning, were given a preliminary hearing at Warrenville and remanded to jail without bonds for trial before the Superior Court next March on the charge of murder. Rea) estate assessments in New York City, according to tax commissioners, have been increased nearly $1,500,1MM),000 under the new system of taxati.m. The administration also is increasing by $2,000,01 hi, 000 the "tentative assessments" <>n personal property. By these increases the tax commissioner* believe tin* city tax rate for the current year can be cut in half. At the meeting of the social and economic seieme section ol the American Association for the Ad vaneement of Science in Washington Prof, Willis L. Moore, chief of the weather bureau, said it cost $1,250,000 a year to make the loreetists. but that the frost warnings of a few days ago in Florida saved millions of dollars to the people of that State, and that the warning of a single cold wave recently saved shippers $4,000,(MM).