Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1903 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

Gen. John R. Brooke was re-elected preffldent at the meeting of the Society of the Army of the Potomac in Boston. More than 10,000 Christian Scientists made a pilgrimage from Boston to Mrs. Eddy’s home at Concord, where she addrossed them. Cornell crews won all three race* at Poughkeepsie, capturing the varsity event by ten lengths, Georgetown being second, Wisconsin third and Pennsylvania fourth. Charges of fraud in the seed distribution of the Department of Agriculture are made in a suit brought in the court of claims by the New York Market Gardeners’ Association. A state of anarchy is said to exist in Delaware. The mob that burned the Wilmington negro defied the authorities. The militia is said to be iu sympathy with the mob, and a race war is feared. Bobbers broke into a farm house two miles from Limestone, N. Y., and robbed James and Patrick Quinton of $4,000. The Quintons are suspicious of banks and kept their house barricaded against robbers. A passenger train on the Pennsylvania Railroad collided with an empty pur lor car at the Washington street crossing in Jersey City. Several parlor cars were damaged, and the passengers were shaken, hut none sustained serious injury. Ira D. Sankey, the evangelist, is novir hopelessly blind. Mrs. Ida D. Sankey, his daughter-in-law, said: “The best specialists we could obtain have examined Mr. Sankey and all agree that his case Is hopeless. The optic nerve has been entirely destroyed.” Mnhlon Heller of Reading, Pa., a machinist, was instantly killed, and Leonard Oaum, an apprentice, and John Keil, a machinist, were iifjured by the bursting of an emery wheel in the machine shop at tho Pennsylvania Railroad roundhouse at Harrisburg, Pa. The equestrian statue of General Joseph Hooker, erected on the grounds of the State House, was dedicated in Boston. Preceding the unveiling ceremonies a great parade was held, in which scores of the most distinguished military uicu of America participated. Tho west-bound New York and Chicago limited train on the Pennsylvania Railroad was wrecked near Lucas, Pa., but no one was seriously injured. The accident was caused by Toledo passenger train running into the observation ear on the rear of the limited. Six persons were shot and severely wounded in a trolley ear between Media and Chester, l’a. A negro, believed to have been seeking revenge because the conductor recently ejected him, discharged both barrels of a shotgun at the car as it passed a lonely spot in the country. Jacob Devine was arrested at Columbia, Pa., charged with breaking open and pilfering street mail boxes. The postal authorities have been working on this case for three months. When Devine was searched one of the numerous decoy letters scut through the mail by the inspectors was fouud on him. Heartbroken by the deaths of his wife and children and bankrupt and despondent, Theodore Wallkopf, once a wealthy Brazilian, fired a bullet through liis brain in New York. His weapon was a French duelling pistol, its handle marked with six deep notches, ns if in token of as many meetings on the field of honor. George P. llossev, the colored “voodoo doctor,” was found guilty in Philadelphia of murder in the first degree for complicity -in the killing of William G. Dnnzo. llossey sold powders for good luck, for love potions and to cure drunkenness. It is charged that over a dozen mysterious crimes were due to his agency. Robert A. Ammon, attorney for William F. Miller of the Franklin syndicate, was sentenced in New York to an indeterminate term of not less than four nor more than four and a half years in State’s prison. Ammon was convicted of having received stolen money from Miller. The maximum penalty for this offense is five years. New York and all the country about the city were flooded by a downpour of rain. About half ns much water fell as in the prolonged period of wet weather earlier in the mouth. In some streets the water was four and five feet deep. The storm was accompanied by thunder and lightning and several conspicuous spots were struck by bolts.