Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1903 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Krahfc Dudash, who killed hia cousin, JoS&b Fedelen, u the outcome of a feud that started years ago in Germany, was hanged at Klttaning, Pa. The tug Sweepstake reports the loss of the barge Fitzpatrick off Long Island. The barge’s boiler blew up and she sank immediately with five men. A woman registering as Mrs. Louise Ames Van Weik, and said to be Baroness Wolfbauer, committed suicide in a Jersey City hotel by shooting. Edward Brady, an anarchist and friend of Emma Goldman, died in a carriage in New York and it is thought te was the victim of “knock-out drops.” Following a first and a second Bach festival, the latter held in 1901, a third will be given at Bethlehem; Pn., commencing Monday, May 11, and continuing until Saturday, May 16. Four men were killed and several in- > jured at the London mine, near Dubois, Pa., by a fall of rock and earth. One boy’s leg was broken, another’s back was Injured and several others were slightly hurt. John D. Rockefeller has offered financial backing to Dr. William W. Jacques, Boston, for experiments in producing electricity directly from coal: latter's tests already have been carried on eight years. W. W. Card, president of the Pittsburg Screw and Bolt Company and first vice-president of the Westingbouse Electric Company, was run over and killed by a trolley car directly in front of ljis home in Wilkinsburg. Robbers dynamited a safe in the Rowley private bank at Ulysses, Pa., and secured SI,OOO in coin. Citizens gave hattie and a dozen shots were exchanged, but the robbers escaped in a wagoto, car-, rying the money in sacks. Articles of merger have been filed in the State Department at Harrisburg,' Pa., by nil the large coke 'companies in the Connellsville region, which have been absorbed by the 11. C. Frick Coke Company with a capital of $20,000,000, f The lives of 100 miners were imperiled by an explosion of gas in No. 5 mine of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company in the southern part of Wilkes-' barre, Pa. Rescuing parties found them all in a short time, none having been injured. Governor Pennypacker, of Pennsylvania, lias signed the act*-ef the Legislature prohibiting the sale of cigarettes or cigarette paper to any person under 21 years of age. The penalty for violation of the act is a fine of from SIOO to S3OO. As a direct consequence of the"recently renewed fight “between Arbuckle Brothers and the sugar trust the Brooklyn firm will erect another sugar refinery adjoining the one already built on the East river front. It will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Because she left home and married Dr. William Flower, a dentist, against bis will, Charles Lockhart, of Pittsburg, partner of the Rockefellers, lias cut his youngest daughter, Eleanor, out of his will. Charles Lockhart is estimated to lie worth $40,000,000. He is about 85 years of age. Charles Moulton of Clinton, Mass., attempted to kill Miss Lillian Wheeler of Ayers at the railroad station by shooting her in the head. He then turned the revolver on himself nnd died instantly. Miss Wheeler was formerly Moulton’s wife, but lind obtained a divorce nnd assumed her maiden name. The steam yacht Czarina, built for Charles S. Bryan at Elizabethport, N. J., was launched. The yacht is the first of a proposed auxiliary tleet to be used by the government for readiness in case of war and is built according to United States navy specifications to have strength equal to a 1,000-ton cruiser. The body of Frederick J. Stebbins, with a bullet bole til rough the head, was discovered in a clump of evergreens in Genesee Valley Park, Rochester, X. Y., by two boys. There was a revolver near by, ns well as the following note: “To the Coroner: To save you investigating, I wish to state that I was not held up and murdered for my money. 1 did it with my little revolver.” Harris Rothstein. aged 84 years, air invalid, was burned to death in a tenement lionse .fire in New York despite the heroic efforts of one of the tenants, a girl only 14 years old, who dragged the old man up three flights of stairs and was trying to get hitn up the ladder loading to the roof when severely scorched nnd half suffocated l>v the smoke she was forced to abandon him. A body of police officers marching in sol|d front from curb to curb drove 1,000 noisy Greek mill workers through the streets of Lowell, Mass.), for nearly a mile Tuesday night and prevented what might have developed into a riot growing out of the return lo work of a number of ring spinners of the Lawrence Hosiery Company who loft work in sympathy with the strike order' of the Textile Council. What promises to be one of the most bitterly contested strikes ever kuown in the central Pennsylvania bituminous coal region has been inaugurated at the mines of the Lehigh Vulley Coul Company at Snowslioe, Pa. The officials of district No. 2, United Mineworkers of America, say that the coal company is forcing the fight to destroy the organization rather than settle any differences over scale matters. Arthur R. Pennell, of Buffalo, who was accused of the murder of Edwfn L. Burdick, and who was killed in an automobile accident on Marcli 10, it is claimed, was a defaulter to the extent of $160,000 or $200,000. He is said to have swiudled the estates of friends in the East out of large sums of money. He carried over $200,000 life., insurance, in order, it is said, that after his death the estates might be able to recoup the losses. j