Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1903 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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) The Maine potato crop will be abort because of blight. I The golden jubilee of Very Rev. James i V. McGill, C. M., was celebrated in Philadelphia. Archbishop Falconio was in attendance. Joseph Duprey, grandson of General John Duprey, of Washington, D. C., accidentally shot and killed his guide, Fred Barbour, in the Adirondacks. Clarence Egnor of Buffalo, N. Y., was put to death in the electric chair at Auburn for the murder of Archibald Benedict, a keeper in Auburn prison. Harry Smith, 10 years old, of Jersey City, goes barefoot winter and summer because his feet are so perfect that his parents refuse to mar them with shoes. An Incendiary fire destroyed three houses and a rtore at Pocantlco Hills, near Tarrytown, N. Y. The houses were occupied by Italians employed by John D, Rockefeller. By a cave-in at the Greentree tunnel of the Wabash Railroad in (jrcentree borough, near Pittsburg, one man wus killed, two hurt and ten or twelve laborers are missing. Dr. Edward C. Rushmore of Tuxedo, N. J., and Miss Cornelia Herrick, his niece, dashed down an embankment while automobile riding; the latter was killed and the former may die. John H. Hastings, aged 53 years, postmaster at Kirkwood, Del., committed suicide by shooting himself witli a gun at his residence. It i« supposed that his mind was temporarily deranged. Theodore Hainmal, who lives'in Central avenue, Jersey City, is said to have fallen heir to $2,000,000 from a sister whom he had not seen since he, when a boy, ran away from his home in Germany fifty years ago. The counterfeiting of United States coin has been carried on in Pennsylvania penitentiary, nt Philadelphia, by five convicts under officials’ noses. Warden Bus■lngcr and the cigar department overseer have been suspended. The police of Long Island City, N. Y., believe they have in custody Charles Adams, accused of the murder of his aunt, Mrs. Mary Rogers, in Philadelphia in June, 1897, because she refused to accede to his demands for money. Dread of a surgical operation she was about to undergo led Mrs. Louise I. Buxton, daughter of Thomas G. Lombard, of Chicagtb to kill herself with gas, it is said. She was found asphyxiated and alone at 23 Weet 115th street, New York. Niagara was startled by another suicide Saturday afternoon. This latest victim leaped from tlie tower or railway steel arch bridge to certain death-fn tlie whirlpool rapids. Ilis name was John Whybra, n resident of Niagara Falls and a man of family. President Buchanan of the bridge and structural iron workers annulled the charter and suspended the New York union of which Samuel Parks, the convicted walking de-legate, is the virtual head, thus practically closing Parks’ career in labor’s ranks.