Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1903 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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The river steamer Hastens was barn--04 to thd water’* edge at Ogdensburg, N. Y. The crew narrowly escaped. Lou Dillon trotted a mile at Iteadville, Hass., in 2:00 flat, creating a new world's record and dethroning the great Cresceus. ■Because he was afraid bis wife would survive him and be left without support, Dominie VerChil shot and killed her at Pittsburg. He then stabbed himself. The coroner’s Jury which investigated the accident at the Philadelphia ball park in which twelve persons were killed and 800 injured placed the blame on the old Philadelphia Baseball Club, Limited. By the collapse of % scaffold io the annex to the Joseph Horne Company building in Pittsburg, Pa., Samuel Brooker was killed and B. Thompson and 8. Hopsaw so seriously hurt that they will probably die. Beliance and Shamrock 111. failed to cover the course in the first trial, and the race was called off by mutual consent. Reliance showed superiority over the challenger under conditions especially favorable to the latter. Robert Kilpatrick was hanged in the jail yard at Media, Pa., for the murder in February, 1902, of Elizabeth Bearmore, liis housekeeper. He was the fir.* white man to lie executed in Delaware County in more thnu sixty years. William C. Pettifore of Trenton, N. J., a former slave, is rejoicing over the birth of liis twenty-seventh child, whieh he has named Alice Roosevelt Pettifore. Pettifore is poor, but industrious. He ia a hod carrier and belongs to the union. Judge Alton B. Parker had a narrow escape at Kingston, N. Y., his horse becoming frightened at an auto driven by the chauffeur of Mayor Fleischinann of Cinciuuati. The Ohio official had to pay S3OO to secure the release of the offender. J. P. Jordan & C0.,-wholesale paper deulars, Burton, assigned for the benefit of creditors, numing Charles 11. Davenport of Holyoke and Frank ,W. Tibbetts of Boston as assignees. The trouble is attributed to impairment of credit and heavy losses. Frederick D. Fressler, until seven months ago captain in the United States army, stationed at Seattle, in the paymaster’s department, shot and killed himself in Carroll Park, Brooklyn. He had been in financial straits, and had become despondent. The Reliance won the second race of the America’s cup series, defeating Shamrock 111. after a gallant fight by the narrow margin of 1 minute 19, seconds. A severe storm nfter the race endangered many excursionists and the competing yachts. Fire destroyed the Columbia Ribbon Company’s mill at Haiedon, N. J. It was a two-story structure a block in length. The fire started in the boiler room of the new annex and spread with great rapidity to the maiu building. The loss is about $150,000. Reliance beat Shamrock 111. in the fir 4 race of the contest for the America’s cup by seven minutes and three seconds, nfter deducting the time allowance of the challenger. The race was sailed in “Shamrock weather,” the breeze being brisk and the time fast. After lying unconscious for three days, Bertha Herman, 14 years old, died in a Philadelphia hospital from the effects of being struck on the head with a golf ball. The child was watching the play on the Sharon Hill links, when the ball struck her. fracturing the skuli. Women mixed with men engaged in a street riot in McKeesport, Pa. A number of strikers tried to take a keg of beer from some non-union workmen. Shots were exchanged, but no one was wounded. Several workmen were badly beaten by the uttack of the women. An architect lias completed plans for a mortuary chapel in Calvary cemetery. Long Islnnd, with an underground cavern for the burial of priests, resembling the catacombs of Rome. The idea was conceived by Archbishop Farley while traveling through Rome two years ago.