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

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Fir* In the plant of the Perkin* Machine Company at South Boston gflused a loss of about ,SIOO,OOO. An explosion at Elmira, N. destroyed the plant where Jovite, a high explosive, was manufactured.'Three men were killed and several injured. In national convention at Binghamton, N. Y., Maraea and Philathea dames eleeted Itev. W. O. Ham-liens of Chicago second vice-president of Philathcas. Thirty more Baltimore election orti ciala have boon indicted for alleged frauds in the municipal election May 5. Sixty cases are being considered «» all. Crowd at a baseball game in Pittsburg. Pa., resented an invasion by negro ‘‘erap” shooters, one of whom was killed, two others fatally injured nnd two of the attacking party seriously wopnded. The test suit to fix liability for dnmagea to the families of persons killed or injured by the explosion of fireworks in Madison Square. New York, last election night lias been decided against the city. Members of the New York Vegetarian Society propose to wear shoes made of vegetable mutter and have sent to England for sample footwear in the composition of which there is no animal matter. A great, fashion show has been planned to open in New York Sept. 1 at Madison Square Harden. The exhibition will show every kind of apparel worn by women in process of manufacture and in finished form. * Since last November Joseph Bailey of Glens Falls, N. Y.. has lived with a 22caliber bullet in his brain. Bailey, who is ID years old. was shot in a street tight. He was taken to the hospital and after n month hud recovered bis health, but lie is an imbecile. Following investigation of the disappearance of Louise Diviniero. a 15-year-old girl, the New York police announced that they had discovered in "Little Italy" a band of men who were making a business of kidnaping young girls and holding them for ransom. At Monticello, N. Y.. the jury in the case of Mrs. Kate Taylor, charged with killing her husband. Lafayette Taylor, returned a verdict of guilty in the first degree. She was sentenced to death, and her execution fixed for the week of July 5 at Dannemoru prison. The pcr.-onal effects of ,1. P. Tittcmorc of Galway, N. Y.. are to be sold at auction' to satisfy a $.'5,000 judgment obtained by Miss Frances Pettit, who proved that during a fourteen years’ courtship Tittcmorc had kissed her 1.25515 times, of which she had kept a strict account. Burglars broke into the orticc of Kidd Bros. »V- Burghers, steel wire mill, at McK ees Bocks. Pa., and. finding nothing of value after dynamiting the safe, sej, fire to the plant. The main building, a long frame structure, was completely destroyed, entailing a loss of about SOO,000. A general Mi-ike of textile workers was begun in Philadelphia Monday, and involve- iiliout IMMNKI operatives. Of the COO firms engaged in the textile industry only forty-seven have granted the demands of The union, and their plants, employing about 15.000 bands, arc in operation. Mrs. Lena Wolf, a Jewess, 35 years old, was found strangled to death on the floor of her home ill Pittsburg, Pa. Appearances indicated that she had committed suicide by hanging herself with a short piece -of twine, but the suspicious actions of her husband, Morris Wolf, led to bis arrest .pending a further investigation. Whiteeap messages and threats from unknown persons have driven .Mrs. Warren McNally of Bristol, Pa,, almost to nervous prostration, Shortly after her wedding a mysterious message was received which read: "We will have you and Warren separated inside a year.” From thut time until the present the unknown persons have kept up their persecution. That the recent storm on Lake Huron -brought at least- one marine tragedy became known when the Anchor Line steamer China reached Port Huron, Officers of the vessel reported having passed a three-masted schooner dismantled off Thunder Bay Island. Lake Huron. The schooner's spars were hanging over her side, and there was no sign of life aboard. The grave of Edward M. Thayer, the Newton, Mass,, young man who died suddenly recently while carying $500,000 of life insurance, has been opened and the body removed to the cemetery chapel. Thayer was arrested in Boston on the charge of forging deeds of property on which lie gave bogus mortgages, securing, it was supposed, considerable money. A few days after bis arrest, bail being accepted. Thayer was found dead .in bed in a fashionable hotel. The eer--tificate named acute Bright's disease as the,cause of death.