Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1903 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

Despondent over bad luck, John Donoghue of Chicago, a *eulptor. committed suicide at New Haven, Conn. Mr*. YVilliain Batter of Leroy. N. Y., hanged herself and her two children, Good son, aged 8 years, and Gladys, aged 8 years. * Aj-iolent wind storm, accompanied by lightning, rain and hail, swept over New York City, causing three deaths and doing great damage. A woman left $11.1.10 nt the door of James Mealey of Sehuylerville. N. Y., with no other explanation than that it ’was "from a friend.” Between fifty and one hundred persons were killed by a cloudburst and breaking of a duin at n pleasure park in a ravine near Jeannette, Pa. The bodies of A. ID Delan, an architect, and his wife were found r,t Byberry, a suburb of Philadelphia. Murder and suicide are suspected. Five persons, three of them women, were rescued from the dismantled catboat Yankee by Sir Thomas Dipton’s sailors near New York. Edward R. Stinger, aged 28, was shot and killed by a Philadelphia policeman while attempting to steal a crate of ponchos in the produce district. Eight candidates caught cheating in entrance examination papers at Princeton University have been forever debarred from entering that institution. Mrs. F. D. St. John, a prominent Neiv York society woman and church worker, was thrown into the rapid transit suitway by an electric car and killed. Over 1.200 of the 1,500 employe* of the John &. James Dobson carpet mill in Philadelphia voted to return to work. No cohee.csions were made by the firm. Mrs. Harriet Dane Johnston, niece of President Buchanan, died at N'arragansett Pier. Her remains were taken to Baltimore and buried beside her husband and children. The explosion of a portable tank of gasoline caused the death of Archibald Call, a Buffalo machinist, and the destruction of tile large central roundhouse at Lyons, N. Y. The loss was about $< >O,OOO.

Frank R<»ky, 85 years old. of Allegheny. employed a lalmrer at the Twentieth street power station of the Pittsburg Railway Company, was smothered bj being buried beneath a pile of slack coal. During a heavy rainstorm lightning struck a trolley wire in Pittsburg. It •napped and one end fell into a wagon containing ten persons, killing three men and a woman and badly shocking tlie other occupant). Twenty-live persons were injured by two loaded trolley ears crashing together on the steep hill near the entrance to Chestnut Hill Park, on the outskirts of Philadelphia. Four of the twenty five were seriously hurt. Patrick Connors was burned to death and Frank Haynes seriously injured in a fire which destroyed the floating coal digger or steam shovel Pittsburg, anchored in the Mississippi river at the foot of Mullanphy street. St. Louis. The property loss was $3,000. By his will, filed in the surrogate office in New York, tlie late Paul B. Du Chailid, explorer anil writer, bequeaths all his estate to his friend Henry R. Hoyt. The petition which accompanied the will set forth that the testator left personal estate worth less than SSOO. Andrew Hudoek, aged 35 years, of Freeland, Pa., treasurer of the Pennsylvania Slovak Catholic Union, was found dead in his butcher wagon ns the horse attached to the vehicle Fame into tlie limits of Freeland from Sandy Run. There was a bullet hole in lludook’s temple rind a revolver was found along the roadside. One of the greatest and most peculiar mine gns explosions which lias ever occurred at Pottsvillo. l’a.. took place at the Walshville colliery. The force of the concussion was so great that the dense air of the mine was blown ahead of the gaseous flames and thus was the novel cause of saving many men from being roasted alive.