Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1903 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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The Broadway Market at Buffalo was damaged $50,000 by fire. Til3 business portion of Berlin, Pa., ■uffered a loss of $75,000, on which there is $20,000 insurance. Andrew, the 10-year-old son of Leonard Baldwin, was killed at Baldwinsville, N.' Y., by the discharge of u gun loaded with beans. Gen. Edwin S. Greely of New Haven, Conti., was elected president general of the National Society, Sons of the American Revolution. Gov. Pcnnypneker of Pennsylvania vetoed the Grady bill giving to railronds the right to take dwellings under eminent domain proceedings. After jumping n skipping rope 209 times on the school grounds at Tliroop, Pa., 10-yenr old Mnfy Chubby fell and shortly afterwards died in great agony. TlmWiKoston, Muss., tchool authorities refuse to follow New York’s example in throwing out “Undo Tom’s Cabin” from the libraries. They regard it as a cbn sic. Mr.*. Abbey 1,. Brown, widow of Eugene ’ Brown, a wealthy clothier of New. Bedford, Mass., was killed at Elleiivilte, N. Y., while attempting to ride her horse man fashion. Captain John B. Ford, the pioneer manufacturer of plate glass, died at his home at Creighton, Pa., of cancer after a year’s illness. lie was 01 years old (nst November. Miss Virginia Lnurenson of Baltimore is suing the Chesapeake and Atlantic Railroad for $20,000 because her poodle dogs were ejected from a steamboat operated by the corporation. Forest fires in Adiromlaeks north of Utica, N. Y.. damaged uncut timber, camps and villages $1,000,000; Hurd sawmill, largest in United States, was destroyed; loss of life is unknown. One life wns lost and SIO,OOO damage done by a tire at I.oretto, Pa. The tire was about 200 yards from the summer* residence of Charles M. Schwab, president of the United States Steel Corporation. While attempting to dose the explosion doors of the Sharon. Pa., blast furnace two men were suffocated by the deadly fumes. The men w< re at the top of the stack and were not discovered for several- hours. Two dead and five seriously injured is the result of a collision between a westbound passenger train jjiri a freight train just east us the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad station in South Norwalk, ,Conn. The Pennsylvania'""Supremo Court decided that Christian Scientists cannot practice the art of healing or curing disease in the State, holding that their methods are injurious to the community and opposed to the policy of health laws. Bishop John F. Hurst, of the Methodist Episcopal Chdroll, died at Washington. He was stricken-with paralysis in London last September a year ago while attending the ecumenciivl conference, and had been in failing health since. By the caving in of an old coal bank at Glendale, Pa., three children of John Gluseogies, a Slav eoai miner, who were buried under several tons of earth. The oldest, Victor, aged ID, was killed instantly. The two others, Mary and Hubert, are in a precarious condition. Grover Cleveland is again in the hands of his friends. From statements made at his home in Princeton, N. J., the indications are that the former President will run again if his friends and the Democratic party make a demand that is loud enough to be heard in his home town. J. Wells Champney, the well-known artist, whose paintings, drawings and sketches, signed by the name “Champ,” are known all over the. United States and in Europe, was killed in New York by falling down the elevator shaft of the building in which is located the Camera Club. 4 Harry M. Clulmugh, several years associate justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, took the oath of office as chief justice of that court, succeeding E. F. Bingham. Former United States Senator Peter C. Pritchard of North Carolina was sworn in as associate justice. The Pope Manufacturing Company has filed amended articles of incorporation ni New Jersey, increasing the authorized capital stock from $22,000,000 to $22,500,000. The increase is for the purpose of taking over the business of the American Bicycle Company, which has been in the hands of a receiver. Frank Carfa, an Italian miner, was stabbed through the heart at Walston, I’a.. by a recent arrival from southern Italy, who gave his name as~Aghollo Batiste. Carfa died instantly, and his slayer is iu jail. The manner in which the murder wns committed iml kites that the deed had been planned by the Mafia. The new regulations regarding the sale of matches went into effect in New York. No oiie, unless he has a license, may give away or sell matches. Retail dealers may not sell matches with more than 1,000 in a Im>x and the splints of matches must be strong. They must ignite easily with little noise and the heads must not fly off. A school of education to be the outgrowth of the present department of education in Harvard College is to be founded with an endowment fund of $2,000.000 and an additional $500,000 for an administration building. The object is the theoretical training and practical education of college men who wish to adopt teaching ns a profession. Because of the strike of seventeen of its engineers for higher wages and recognition of the union the Boston Towboat Compnny, which handles the greater part of the towing business in Boston. Mas 1- ., and all of that done for the trans-Atlan-tic steamship companies, laid off all it* boats and declared its purpose of keeping them idle until the men-are ready to retnru to work .under old conditions.