Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1903 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Nine passengers ore reported to be seriously injured ns the result of a collision between two electric cars in Fail River, Mnss. Nineteen men are dead as a result of the capsizing of the ferryboat used by workmen at Spier Falls, on the Hudson River. . C 2: Twenty-two persons were killed and over fifty injured by burning oil thrown from exploding tanks in a freight wreck at Glean, N. Y. I>r. William 11. Hale of Jack ion, Mich., charged with forgery in the second degree, lias been held for the grand jury at Rochester, N. Y r . At the constitutional election in New Hampshire the woman suffrage amendment was defeated by an overwhelming vote, estimated at two to one. Arthur It. Pennell, a Buffalo lawyer, suspect nnd co-respondent in the Burdick case, was killed in an automobile accident, and his wife was mortally injured. The new United States monitor Nevada has been placed in commission at the navy yard at Portsmouth, N. H. Commander T. It. Howard took charge of the new ship. At a great mass meeting in Brooklyn in aid of tlie project for a memorial to Henry Ward Beecher former President Grover Cleveland paid a glowing tribute to the memory of the famous pastor and founder of Plymouth Church. Alonzo Clark and Elizabeth Austin, It), were married six weeks. They are now in jail at Oswego, N. V., charged with burglary and larceny. Mrs, dark says her husband forced her to assist him th robbing a "store at Hastings Center. The Elmira Anchorage, a home for unfortunate young women, burned at Elmira, N. Y., three bnbios dying In the Humes and three were rescued by their mothers. There were nineteen inmates, six of whom were mothers of young children. Ellen Vail, aged 55 years, and Elizabeth Vail, aged 22 years, were killed in a tire in East Seventieth street, New York. The older woman was suffocated and the younger jumped from the fourth floor. The property lors by the fire was small __ The old I Ilii.-m Opera Home block at Williamsport, Pa., was gutted by fire. A total loss of $75,000 was suffered by Michael Levi, clothier; George Loder, general merchandise; Companies D, G and I of the Twelfth regiment, N. G. I\, and other tenants. At Watertown,. N. Y., fire destroyed the Otis House, one of the largest hotels in the city, and ruined numerous stores in the block. The hotel was crowded with guests and many narrow escapes were reported. The total loss is estimated at $200,000. Hugh Dixon, aged 70 years, committed suicide at Pittsburg by jumping from the Forward avenue bridge to ground below, a distance of 135 feet. Nearly every bone in bis body was broken. 11l health nnd the recent death of his wife caused the deed. Trustees of Barnard College, New York, announced that a gift of $1,000,000 had been made to tlie college by a person whose name President Butler and Treasurer Plimpton suppressed. The money is to be used for the purchase, of land adjoining the college. The President lias offered Robert Bacon, formerly of J. P. Morgan & Co., the office of Assistant United States Treasurer at New Y’ork to succeed the late Conrad N. Jordan. Mr. Bacon retired from the Morgan firm the first of the ytfar because of ill health. Daniel Leroy Dresser of New Y*>rk, whose firm failed for $1,250,000, might have averted the crash. It Is said that both his brother-in-law, George Vanderbilt, and his sister, Mrs. John Nicholas Brown, offered him money to tide over his affairs, but lie refused their aid. By giving to Yale’s library an exceptional collection of Russian and Slavic literature, nnd more recently a small library on music, the inte J. Bumner Smith, Y’ale 1853, so impoverished his fortunes that Yuie graduates have taken steps to raise a fund for the aid oi his widow. Tile ferryboat Neptune plying between Allegheny and the West End, was sunk in the Ohio Rivers near the foot of Chartiers street, Pittsburg, by the steamer Margaret. The Neptune is a total loss, and the crew and passengers had to swim to the Alleghany side in order to save their lives. Miss Ella Lyde, aged 22, a telephone operator, was suffocated in Pittsburg in a street ear during the rush hours between 5 and 7 o’clock. She was forced to stand because of the crush nnd, after riding seven or eight blocks, fainted. After being carried into a nearby store she expired in a few moments. Word lins been received in Boston that William Miller, a Boston missionary who went to Russian I’olnnd some months ago to work among the poorer classes in an effort to educate them, hns been arrested by the police and exiled to Siberia. The Russian government makes it a crime to educate or attempt to educate the Poles.