Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1903 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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A Nawark, N. J., physician believes k« has discovered a way to exterminate mosquitoes with an X-ray. machine. ' The police have learned of the disappearance of tho night clerk at a Chelsea hotel and SIO,OOO with him. Chelsea ia a suburb of Atlantic City, N. J. New York financier* are shocked by a new book by a jprmer secretary of Carnegie's, throwing new light on methods and successes of the ironmaster. After rescuing his mother from drowning In the surf at Coney Island Frank Masters, an expert swimmer from Brooklyn, lost bis life in the undertow. Four young men were drowned off the coqst of Maine by leaping from a gasoline launch which had caught fire. Two others were badly but rescued. Nine people were killed and probably 200 more or less seriously injured, a score perhaps fatally, by the collapse of a rotten balcony at tho Philadelphia baseball park. The naval war game came to an end off Bar Harbor, Me., with detection of the "enemy’a” fleet trying to raid coast, success of defenders being made possible by use of wireless telegraph. Charles Loeffler, nephew of Mrs. Charles Fair, who, with her husband, was killed in France, has been serMfualy hurt jn a runaway near his New Jersey home. He probably will recover. Conrad Schrocder, one of the wealthiest contractors and builders in northeastern Pennsylvania, shot himself in the head at Scranton and died almost instantly. He was rated as a millionaire. The pocking house of the Dupont powder mills at Carney’s Point, Del., blew up. No one was injured, as there were no employes there at the time. The loss is trifling. The cause of the explosion is unknown.

Jessie Hart, a pretty young domestic of Geneva, N. Y., received word the other day from Seattle, Wash., that her uncle, James L. Hawley, a mine owner, bad dlad, leaving her his entire fortune of $2,000,000. A deadlock on the cruiser Columbia has been in existence at Brooklyn navy yard for several days, because Chief Carpenter’s Mate Isaac Miller, negro, insists on dinlug with petty officers; Washington officials may interfere. The Boston and Chicago special was wrecked at Charlton, Mass,, depot in a collision with an east-bound freight. Both engines were wrecked and two cars of the express derailed. The damdige is estimated at over $30,000.

A certificate of incorporation of the Pittsburg Union stock yards has been filed in Jersey City. Tire company was organized for the purpose of buying, selling, slaughtering and packing live stock. The capital stock is SIOO,OOO. Keeper James H. Gunderman was eliot at the New York State reformatory In Elmira by a convict named Moore, whom he had threatened to report for violation of the rules. One bullet went through Gundermnn’s shoulder. * Fire which started in the store of former State Senator J. G. W. Havens at Point Pleasant, N. J., destroyed several business houses in the center of the town. The damage is about SIOO,OOO. Mr. Havens lost a valuable collection of antiquities.

Angelina La Puma, a New York child, who disappeared from in front of her home July 21, who is believed to have been kidnaped and for whose recovery a reward of SI,OOO was offered, was found by her father. She had been returned to the house. Because he married the divorced wife of a brother clergyman, Rev. George F. Kettell, assistant rector of Chris! Church, one of the fashionable Episcopal churches of Baltimore, Md., has been forced to resign from his position aud will be deposed from the priesthood.