Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1903 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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The building occupied by Henry K. Wampolc & Co., manufacturing chemists, Philadelphia, waa damaged SOO,OOO, covered by insurance. - Dr. Richarl C. Flower, against whom there are several indictments charging him with larceny, was admitted to s2<},000 bail at New York. Herman Bowman Esher, of Chicago, n student at Yale, committed suicide in a New Y'ork hotel, supposedly because of worry over business troubles. While, canoeing in the Connecticut river ut Hanover, N. 11., Robert M. Baker and John B. Kenerson. both freshmen in Dartmouth College, were drowned. Fire whfcli originated in the Carthage tissue paper mill caused a loss of SO,OOO to the paper company and $3,000 to the tty ther A I’ringle storehouse ut Utica, N. Y. The Mills A Knight. Company of Boston, one of the oldest printing and book houses in New England, has assigned. Liabilities $01,270, assets nominally about the same. William 11. Santelmann has been regularly reappointed lender of the United States Marine Band at Washington, witli the pay and allowances of a lieutenant of marines. Head of bridge and structural iron workers at New York says labor crisis is at hand and has appealed to President Roosevelt to lend his aid toward averting general strike. Seven of the great cotton mills at Lowell, Mass., have been- Hint down by a strike of their operatives, which number several thousand. They demand a 10 per cent increase m wages. Judge Murphy’s verdict on the Burdick murder at Buffalo, while not openly accusing Pennell with the crime", indicates that lie had the strongest motive for wishing Burdick out of the way. 'Charles G. Quintard, who deserted his family to live? with Miss Alice Bradley, an heiress, at Greenwich, Conn,, jumped into a boat to escape officers of the law, and it is thought he wns drowned, Richard Gay, the only negro in Nunda, N. Y., is dead and has been buried with military honors. Ho was proud of the distinction of having been Gen. Grant’s head cook during the Civil War. Miss Anna Angela George, youngest daughter of the late Henry George, was married at Fort Hamilton, N. Y., to William Churchill Dc Mille of Pompton, N. J., a son of Henry C. De Mille, the playwright. Twenty eases of diphtheria have developed at the Norfolk navy yard among the 1,500 landsmen stationed there in the receiving ships Franklin and Richmond. Both of the receiving ships were placed In quarantine. Escaping from the River Crest. Sanitarium, Astoria, N. Y., a patient supposed to have been Duncan McFarlttn, 33 years old, and a wealthy resident of Philadelphia, dashed into the water near Hell Gate and went down in the running tide. Actors in musical farce, “McFadden’s Flats,” were driven from stage of new Star Theater at New York by 200 members of Clan-iui-Gael and Hibernian orders, who threw rotten eggs and vegetables ut them because of satire on their race. Alfred GWynne Vanderbilt has filed an affidavit in Newport declaring that he had become a citizen of Rhode Island, with a residence at Portsmouth. The certificate was filed in order that it might be presented to the assessors in New Y’ork. Miss Eluora Lockhart, daughter of Charles Lockhart, one of the wealthiest men in Pittsburg, who recently gave each of his five children a present of sl,000,000, was married secretly to William S. Flower of that city. The reason for the elopement is still a mystery. Five of the' striking motormen and conductors of the Connecticut Railway and Lighting Company were arrested at Waterbary. Conn., on the charge of assault with intent to kill. They are accused of having been concerned in the attack on a trolley car on the Waterville line Feb. 20. Alfred G. Vanderbilt experienced a revulsion of feeling after having sworn off a million assessment to $50,001) and has raised the amount to 9250,0tH). The young millionaire voluntarily appeared before Tax Commissioner Strnsbourgcr in New York and carefully went over his personal estate.