Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1903 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

The Pigeon Cove Hotel and several residences' were burned nt Pigeon Cove, Mass., causing a loss of S3S,(XX). Society women in Philadelphia hare adopted the tattooing fad and “profeesore” are busy putting decorations on white arms am! legs. The plant of the Montello Brick Company at Wyomissing. Pa., suffered damage by fire of $175,001), on which there is insurance of $50,000. The Steriliqua Company and « storage warehouse owned by George Kelly, a retail furniture dealer of Philadelphia, suffered a loss of $55,000, which is fully insured. Announcement has been made at Yale that Frederick Vanderbilt has added SISO.(MX) to his $500,000 gift to the Sheffield scientific school at Yale hi order to build a second dormitory for the school. Fire in the thirteen-story office building at 15 Murray street. New York, damaged the structure to the extent of about $75,000. The stock and furniture of a number of tenants were damaged about $25,000. Fire in a factory building at the corner of Crosby and Houston streets, New York, adjoining a five-story tenement and n cigar factory, resulted in n panic in both places, during which four women lost their lives. Twenty-four persons were crushed or burned to death and scores injured by a rear end collision near Cranford, N. J., between Jersey Central suburban and Royal Blue passenger trains. The wreckage took fire and was burned. Edward Darling ami Thomas Sw ink, brakemen, were killed and Harley- Milkins, conductor, was fatally injured in a freight wreck on the Williamsport and North Branch Railroad near Satterfield. Pa. The wreck was caused by an open switch. A spark from a passing locomotive dropped in the pocket of Edward McCarel, a track walker on the Northern Central Railroad, nt <’lark’s Ferry, Pa. Before he discovered its presence the spark ignited his clotlies. llis body and arms were badly burned. By the burning of the smallpox hospital at Biddeford, Me., thirty-six men, women ami children patients were forced to escape in their night clothes. The mercury was several degrees below zero, and all suffered terribly from exposure. One man is expected to die. A combine of all tin* manufacturers of refractory brick who arc outside the Har-bison-Walker combine has been arranged at Pittsburg with a capital of $15,000,000. It is the purpose of the company to buy the plaids outright-and to operate them as one concern, with Pittsburg as the headquarters. Charles Westphal, a furnace man, rind Michael Schultz, a helper, employed at the Buffalo Union Furnace Company, Buffalo, N. Y., were terribly burned while about to load one of the coke ovens. When the oven door was opened a sheet of flame shot out of the furnace, enveloping the men. Wreckage from the Kchoonef” Celtic, which was lost during a tiefee gale on Lake Huron Nov. 29. lias been found on Boom Point, the extreme southeast end of Cockburn Island. The Celtic broke away from the steamer Runnells during the storm and nothing has ever been heard from the crew. Joseph Isaacs, “the old-clothes man," has retired into private life, after more than fifty years of great activity in Baxter street. New York. Before retiring from business Isaacs bought u three-story-red brick dwelling in Station street, where he now resides. Isaacs is now 7b years old and wealthy. Rescuing gangs worked strenuously at the Brookwood colliery, Pottsville, Pa., to save three men who were entombed in the mine by n rush of clay. But when the rescuing gang reached theiimprisom-d , men they were calmly eating dinner, unconscious that they were imprisoned, the silent rush of the clay giving them no notice that they were cut off from the outside world. Two men were killed and four seriously injured in the eastern end of the Wabash tunnel, Pittsburg, by tin explosion of dynnmite. Blasts had been prepared by the night crew in the eastern end of the heading, and Day Foreman Florence had gone in with Night Foreman Taylor to see what had been done. With the foremen were four workmen. As the party were going toward the cltarg -s of dynamite some one up tit the top of the shaft turned on the electrical current without notification, and when Taylor, who carried the wires, inserted them into the charge of dynamite, the explosion followed.