Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1903 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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John Connelly, about 55 years old, was found dead at Lawrenceville, I’m, frozen to death, Ex-Gov. Daniel 11. Hastings died at Bellefonte, Pa., of pleuro-pneumonia, after an illness of four days. A bill will be introduced in the New Hampshire Legislature to require railroads to issue passes to legislators. 1 Former Gov. \V. Murray Crane of .Massachusetts was elected a director of the International Banking Corporation of New York. Appointment of Willi'am If. Lewis, colored, as Assistant United States Attorney at Boston raises a storm of protest among office-holders. T. A. Donohue, a New York millionaire, delirious from typhoid fever, jumped from the seventh floor of an apartment building and was killed. General Samuel Thomas, one of the best-known railroad men in the country, died at his home in New York City, aged 63 years. General Thomas was a native of Ohio. Secretary of the Navy Moody while on a visit to the Apnapolis Naval Academy was thrown from a carriage drawn by runaway horses and received a slight cut upon bis nose. The colonial house, ancient grist mill and barn, comprising the Curzon estate at Newburyport, Mass,, widely known for their antiquity and as subjects for artists, burned to the ground. One of the large pockets of the Eastern Coal Company, on the water front at Providence, R. L, in which was stored 3,0X1 tons of soft coal, was destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $75,0X). An interesting innovation is being made with the freshlnnn class at Yale in making swimming compulsory for the members who have not that accomplishment. About 10 per cenUof the class cannot swim. Hilliard Probst and Ira Green were crushed to death while digging coal near Bitumen, Pa. The two men went into a small private mine to dig coal for the use of their families when a roof caved in, killing them. Leroy, N. Y., suffered a fire loss of $75,000. The lire was caused by ti gas explosion in the rooms of the S. Oatka Hose Company. The postolfice was burned and much mail destroyed. The Lampson House block also was burned. General E. L. Molineux was knocked down, dragged by a trolley car and badly hurt in Broadway, New York. He is confined to his home in Brooklyn, under the cure of his family physician. His knee cap is injured and his ribs ar crushed in. Fire in th** eight-story brick building at 200 and 211 Allen street and 15!) and 16," Houston street. New York, gutted the lower floors of the buildings and caused a loss of $250,000. Fayerw olither & Ladow, leather manufacturers, sustained the greater part of the loss. Fire almost destroyed the oldest portion of the \V. Dewees wood plant of the American Sheet Steel Company at McKeesport, Pa. The lire originated from a broken gas pipe and the light explosion which resulted from the break set fire to the Wooden supports of the building. Five persons were hurt in a street railway collision at Pittsburg and one of them is dead. A Liberty avenue cal was standing in front of Superintendent Maxwell's office in Homewood when a big Frankstown avenue car ran away on the grade behind it and crashed into the rear of the stationary car. Mrs. Florine Henry, wife of Philo S. Henry, a wealthy coffee merchant, was burned to death in a tire that almost entirely deslrroyed the residence of the family at 54 East 56th street, New York. Alberta Erickson, a domestic, jumped from a fourth-story window and received injuries from which she died. With her hands in a pitiable condition and her clothing wet and ragged, 16-year-old Lueienne Dieoit. daughter of a French farmer, was found wandering about the woods near Vineland, N. ,1. The girl’s bands and feet were frozen. She said she had been driven out before breakfast to cut wood in the forest. New York custom officials arrested Jacob Von Stenibergen, charged with smuggling tobacco, and subsequently made a search of the Red Star steamship Finland, lying in the North River. Von Sternbergen, who is employed on the vessel, was found to be wrapped with tobacco cleverly concealed under his clothing. Henry Phipps, formerly a partner of Andrew Carnegie, has given $1,500,000 to establish in New York an institution for the study ami prevention of tuberculosis, which will be called by his name. The donation was given in the form of $300,000 cash, with the rest of the sum as an endowment with an annuity provision.