Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1903 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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At Liberty, N. Y'.. the 11. J. Series & Co.’s general store burned. The loss was $50,000. 1 Four hundred nnd thirty-one persons are afflicted with typhoid fever at Ithaca, N. Y., and many students are leaving .Cornell University. A report was c urrent among the Republicans at tiie Union League ('lull in New York that Secretary Hoot would resign after the adjournment of Congress. Ilardie Henderson, tiie former wellknown baseball player, was instantly kiiled by being struck by a trolley car nt Thirtieth and Market streets, Philadelphia. Thomas 15. Reed and Jerome ilul.it, both aged 05 years, were found frozen to death in a cornfield nt Mount Rose, near Trenton, X. J. Tiie men were farm hands. William Hooper Young, on trial in New York for the killing of Mrs. Anna Pulitzer, pleaded guilty to murder in the second degree and was sentenced to imprisonment for life. Louis Maude!, a dealer in old iron, was murdered in it is office in New York, his skull lieing crushed by blows struck with a heavy iron bar. ilqbbery evidently was till! motive of t 111- i nnn\ The shoe factories of llowers & Shaw, F. W. Lord A Co. and \Y. E. and C. 10. Osgood nl Peabody, Mass., were destroyed by lire. The loss is s7o,Out) and 20b hands are thrown out of work, At Winona, Minn., a party of young people in a bob sleigh were struck by a street ear running at (nil speed. The two men and eight women of tiie party were all injured and two may die. The body of Mrs. Tracy Peek, wife of Prof. Peek of Y ale University, was found in Fort Hale Park, at Morris Cove, Conn. Mrs. Peek disappeared the previous day. It is believed she committed suicide. At a meeting of the third class men of tiie Naval Academy at Annapolis. Md. t it- wan tiniuiiinously decided to 'recede to the demand of Superintend -nt Brownson that members <> 1' tiie class -refruin from hazing of all forms. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., supposed .to be about ttnr richest ~y uuitg ma l1 —hr America, owes s4oo,otto and lias only $30,000 worth of personal property, tie cording to the statements filed in New York with the department of taxes and assessments. President Eliot, of Harvard University, in his annual report, declared that 28 per cent of the graduates of twentylive classes are unmarried. Tire bn I a nee average only two children each. Shorter college courses are favored as an aid to early marriage. The McKinnon Sasli and Hardware Company's factory nt Buffalo was destroyed by lire at a loss of $ 175,0 th), and four firemen were injured, one fatally, in a collision that delayed the apparatus until the flames gained such headway that they could not lie controlled. Anton . .Mehoor, employed in HchoenbergrrV. mill in Pittsburg w as held tip by four fellow workmen w hile a lift It lrnvo a two-inch wire nail through Mehoor's foot, nailing him to the floor. The men had disputed about their proper positions for working- nnd the others nailed .Mehoor to tiie spot he claimed. William 11. I ’ratt, who had been on trial for two weeks at Reading, Pa., charged with the murder of lii< wife, was declared not guilty. Mrs. Pratt was found dead in Novemltcr. 1901, at her home near Westchester. Her husband was charged with tiie crime and at his first trial was convicted of murder in the first degree. At Portage, I*a., a dynamite explosion wrecked the home of Tony Pasquello nnd injured twelve occupants. In tiie ruins were found the mutilated bodies of Pasquello and his wife. Deep gashes, evidently made with a cleaver, indicate that they were robbed and murdered before the explosion occurred. Their savings, amounting to SBOO, are missing.