Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1903 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

A gale swept a long Wretch of the Atlantic coast, causing much damage U> ahipping and imperiling many lives. It transpires that the Olympia’s bottom was damaged by contact with the rocks during the war game off Portland. Wall atreet trading seemed ruled by ftrofessionals and commission house business is at the lowest mark of the summer. The third section of the Barnum & Bailey circus train, composed almost entirely of sleeping cars for the performers, was wrecked at Wildwood, Pa. No one was injured. After thorough inspection at the Brooklyn navy yard the damage sustained by the battleship Massachusetts in striking Egg Rock at Bar Harbor is pronounced trivial. Howard T. Goodwin, who committed suicide in Philadelphia, Ta., last December, Is accused by Cas.*ett & Co., brokers for whom he was manager, with stealing $1,000,000 worth of securities. While a party of young people were driving home from a social gathering near Evergreen borough, north of Allegheny, Pa., their vehicle waa precipitated over a high embankment into Girtya Run, and three were drowned. Two miners were instantly killed and aix others are idle as the result of one of the heaviest cave-ins that ever occurred in the anthracite mines, in the No. 5 mine of the Delaware and Hudson Coal Company at Wilkesbarre, Pa. The widow of Wagner plans to bring the scenery, costumes and singers of the Beireuth Opera House, Vienna, to New York and produce "Parsifui” to head off Manager Conried’s production of the same opera at the Metropolitan Opera House. In Philadelphia the long textile strike, as far as it applies to Dobson's mills, is at an end. The tapestry carpet weavers voted to capitulate. The mills will open and 2,000 hands will be given employment to the great satisfaction of the strikers’ families. A live wire fallen from a pole of ths Beaver Valley Electric Power Company cost two lives near Beaver, Pa., on the farm of John Galey at Windy Ghoul. The dead are: Owen Bowen, 16 years old, of Beaver, and George Adams, 30 years old, a colored servant on the farm. An early morning fire damaged the power house at the city poor farm, Marnhalsea, Pa., to the extent of SIO,OOO. The flames for a time threatened tfie buildings occupied by the male and female insane, and the inmates became greatly excited, but they were soon pacified by the attendants. At Scranton, Pa., Mrs. Carrie Nation, by her attorney, filed suit for $75,000 damages against the Mayor, the director of public safety, the chief of police and six police officers of the city, alleging false arrest. Mrs. Nation was arrested four times —once for disorderly conduct and three times for selling her hatchets without a license.

Having produced 40,000.000 tons of anthracite coal since Jan. 1, that being 10.000,000 tons above the normal output for that period, the operators, headed by the Philadelphia and Reading Company, have begun to restrict the output. Orders have been itemed for the closing of all washeries of the Reading Company producing pen and smaller sizes. There are now' on hand 2,000,000 tons of small steam coal, for which there appears to be no market. Some producers began to cut the price to get rid of the accumulated products. This led the Reading to immediately take steps to greatly decrease the output.