Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1903 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

A score or more persons were severely injured in New York by the explosion of a gasoline automobile. Terry McGovern, tho pugilist, saved a woman nnd tier two children from death iu a New York fire. Supposed jealousy prompted Charles Grannis of Newcastle, Pa., to fatally shoot Mrs. Della Ilybal and himself. Mrs. Elvin a Bachman of Slatington, Pa., killed her children, aged 1 and 3 years, by cutting their throats and ended her life in the same manner. New York school principals declare present system of maintaining discipline is unsatisfactory and ask to lie allowed to use the rod on unruly .pupils. About 105,000 men are idle in New York ns a result of strikes, lockouts and dissensions. It is estimated that they would earn nearly $4,01)0,000 a week. Five persons -were killed and twelve injured by falling elevator in Pennsylvania Electro-Mechanical Institute, Pittsburg, Pa. Victims were nearly all guests at ball. Dispatches from various parts of New York State report that rain has not fallen for five weeks and that vegetation is withering and pasturage has become scant. Workmen of Pennsylvania Railroad have laid low about 25,000 miles of wire and 20,000 poles following court’s order permitting removal of Western Union property. The plant of the American lee Company was destroyed by tire in Philadelphia. The loss is about $200,000. There were many explosions 'of ammonia but no casualties. Mary Gardner, 10 years old, of I’ierceficld, N. Y 7, was attacked in her room by an unknown man and disfigured for life with a knife a few weeks before her wedding day. Charles Grenier, 39 years old, was shot and fatally wounded by his brother George at Scranton, Pa. Charles was Abusing his mother when George interfered and shot him. Thomas McDonald, ft well known citizen of Plymouth, Pa., had a severe and prolong! d attack of hiccoughs. The strain of one of the paroxysms became so great that two rilis were broken. Standing in a cart, "Big Bill” Devery was nominated for Mayor of NiW York by 2,000 men, women and 'children, but he said lie would not run if Tammany nominatul “a man of the people.” In a shooting affray on the street at Freedom, Pa., three men were shot, one fatally. The meii were intoxicated and quarreled over same trivial matter. There were many narrow escapes for pedestrians. The original boiler-plate mill of the Central Iron and Steel Company was destroyed by lire iu Harrisburg, l’a., causing a loss of $200,000 and throwing a large number of men out of work. Tile loss is covered by insurance. A tire that Is estimated to have caused a loss of upward of $1,000,000 occurred In the building of the Front Street Warehousing Company, at 019-21-23 25 North Front street. Philadelphia. Merchandise of n general character was stored in the place. Andrew J. Campbell, one of the four men sent to prison iu 1901 for drugging and murdering Jennie Bossebieter, a mill girl of Paterson, N. J., is lying at the point of death Jn the hospital at' tliA State penitentiary. 11c has been operated on for appendicitis. The firm of Smith A: Wesson, revolver makers, closed its factory in Springfield, Mass., for an indefinite period. This step is taken, it is believed, because of labor troubles, the men having signified their intention of forming a union, despite the opposition of the firm. Two hundred and twenty acres are to be added to the United States military reservation at West Point at an expense of $20,000. The new ground adjoins the government’s present holdings on the south and west and is known locally ns the “uplands.” This is the first addition that, lias been made to the West Point property acreage. The school boys of Now Haven, Conn., liavA formed a union to secure shorter hour.-: of study and more time for play and work. The hoys in five schools are said to be members of the union, and it is their purpose to have the hours of attendance changed so that there will he a continuous session from 8 a m. to 1 p. m. instead of the two-session sy.-tem that is now iii vogue. A man who registered at the Yorkshire Inn, Great Barrington, Mass., as Arthur Sands of Chicago committed suicide by taking carbolic acid. He was about 21 years old and from his taik it was inferred he had recently visited Germany, lie left a letter to the coroner which stated that lie did not care how, when or where hi? body was buried and asked that his grave be marked with a stone inscribed “A. S.” F. Wellington Iluekstuhl, vice-presi-dent of tlie Municipal Art Society of New York, will sail Tor Europe next week nnd will remain abroad until the fall of 11)04. He will be busy on models for several monuments. One of the models will be for a McKinley monument, which will lie erected iu Washington by private subscription. Another model will he for a colos-.al national peace monument, which will be 700 feet high and will be erected on the Hudson.