Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1903 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Dr. Samuel J. Kennedy, accused of killing "Dolly” Reynolds at New York in 1898, has been freed by court after three trials, conviction, and death sentence. A non-secret senior class society, known as the Klilm Club, lias been organized at Yale. Members of secret college orders are barred from membership. President W. R. llarper of the University of Chicago was elected president of the Alliance Franchise in the United States ut the annual meeting in New York. Eire at Hartford, Conn., gutted a tenement block, causing a loss of SIO,OOO. sdauy tenants escaped in night clothing and five were rescued by firemen with ladders. Alice Roselaitd, an actress, the wife Of Arthur It. Wilbur, manager of the Texas Steer company, died suddenly in Washington, and the case will be investigated by the coroner. Three young women were killed and a fourth was probably fatally injured while Walking from Pawtucket to Philipsdale, R. E, on the tracks of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. The passenger steamer Plymouth and the freighter City of Taunton, both of the Fall River Line, collided in Long Island Sound during a dense fog, six lives being lost and several persons injured. Douglass Schoonover, a bridge worker of Allegheny, Pa., saturated tile clothing of his wife with oil ns she lay sleeping on a couch and then applied a match. The woman was burned beyond recognition. Tile Windsor Line freight steamer Nor man collided with the schooner collier John B. Manning off Massachusetts-and a 85-foot hole was stove iti her. The ship reached Fall River. The Manning was not injured. For the first time a patient has died from an operation for congenital dislocation of the hips after the bloodless method introduced In- Prof. Adolf Lorenz. The patient wtfs an 8-your-old girl, sip crated on in Philadelphia. , George I!. White, vice-president of the South Pennsylvania Rank at llyndm.in, was arrested in Philadelphia by federal officers and charged with conspiracy to wreck the bank, lie is accused of looting the institution of $20,000. Five men of the crew of the tug Pilot ot Philadelphia were drowned in a collision between the tug and the steamship Winifred in the Delaware river off Marcus Ilook, Pa. The reiintining three members of the crew were saved. Mrs. Eilwin L. Riinliek was subjected to merciless examination in Buffalo in quest, reluctantly acknowledged her intrigue with Pennell, but threw no direct light on murder of her husband. Love letters from Pennell were read in court. Announcement is made in New York that George Harvey, president of Harper & Brother.--; lias acquired the publishing and syndicate business of R. 11. Russell and that Mr. Russell is to become asso Ciated with the house of Harper A Brothers. The straits of Mackinac are open end boats can now get through from Lake Michigan to Luke Huron. This is the earliest opening of the straits on record, with the single exception of 1878, just twenty-five years ago, when navigation opened March 15. William Stephen, a Jersey Shore farmer near Williamsport, I’a., used a brace and bit two days ago in making a hayrick. 11 is death is said by the physician to be the result of bis having burst a blood vessel in bis stomach by pressing the brace against bis body too hard. Frank J. Ulrich, representative in the State Legislature from the Sixth District of Brooklyn, N. Y., was probably fatally ■tabbed by William Gettys, n clerk. The men got into an altercation over an alleged insult offered by Gettys to two young women, which Ulrich resented. The Denny block at Pittsburg was damaged by lire to the extent of $150,000. The principal losses were the Thrasher Mercantile Company, G. Dice A Co , Joseph Battaglia A- Brother, Novelty Candy Company, Lavfer & Co., John Murphy A Co., undertakers’ supplies. One man was instantly killed and three others were seriously injured in an explosion at the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad roundhouse at Taunton, Mass. The building was wrecked. An engine used to heat the roundhouse exploded. The dead man is Elisha Chase. Formal announcement of the coming marriage of Catherine Ncilson, daughter of Mrs. Frederick Ncilson, to Reginald Vanderbilt, has been made, the date being Wednesday, April 15. In all probability the event will be solemnized in St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church in Newport. "No woman who wears a seagull or u song bird in her hat can ever get to heaven," saiil Prof. Dallas L. Sharp of Boston University in a sermon at the First Methodist Church, Boston. "Those who rob the lives of the song bird and the bird of beautiful plumage cannot hope for heaven." Thomas Wilson, aged 11, and Robert Honan, 12 years old, both of Cleveland, Ohio, were found at Erie, Pn., in n Lake Shore freight ear in a famished and nearly unconscious condition. Wilson •aid they were on their way to school In Cleveland when two tramps caught them and locked them in the car. A decrease in the hard coal traffle*is enabling the Heading company to fill the bins at Landlngville, I’a., and other storage yards. The coal shipments over the Reading’s main line have been reduced from ten to seven oars weekly. There is a heavy demand for anthracite In the West, which is being; regularly supplied.