Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1903 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

A milk corner is feared in Boston and the price may go to 10 cents a quart. President Roosevelt and his family have returned to the White House after an absence of thirteen weeks. The Shenango tin mill of Newcastle, Pa., the largest plant of the kind In the world, has closed down indefinitely. Threatened damage from forest fires in the northeastern section of Maine has been averted by a heavy fall of rain. A well-dressed man, supposed to be John Dunlavy of Philadelphia, was thrown from a transit car lu St. Louis and killed. The positive statement has been made In Washington that Nov. 9 has been fixed ns the date for Congress to meet in extra session. Fire broke out In the Hotel Brunswick In Rochester, N. H., and it is believed five persons perished. The hotel was the largest in the State. William Ronemus, a mine guard, who confessed to the killing of Patrick Sharpe, a striking miner, was acquitted by a jury at Norristown, Pa. The plant of the Ferracute Machine Company of Bridgeton, N. J., was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss estimated at SIOO,OOO, partially covered by insurance. The farmers’ national congress adjourned at Niagara Fulls. N. Y., after, electing Harvie Jordan, Monticello, Ga., president, and John M. Stahl of Chicago secretary. A fanner at Sound Beach, Conn., has found upon pulling up a cornstalk a heavy gold ring encircling the stalk. Through engraving on the inside it was identified as one lost in 1867. Engineer George W. Boss of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad drove his engine past a danger signnl set dead against him and saved four carloads of passengers from ten train robbers. Dr. James M. Ruckley, editor of the Methodist Christian Advocate, in the current issue of that paper severely arraigns Rev. Dr. Nacy McGee Waters of Brooklyn for his alleged plagiarism of other men’s sermons. Lorrain T. Wilmer was electrocuted at his home in Niagara Falls, N. Y. While searching in the cellar for the cause of trouble with the electric light wires, he received a shock of 2,000 volts, lie was instantly killed. The first accident of the football season in the East occurred in Philadelphia. The victim is Neil Mohan, 11 years old, who was admitted to the Polyclinic hospital suffering from a broken~lcg received while playing in a game.

Robert W. Downing, Comptroller of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, reported to the police that his summer home at Wallingford, l*a., had been visited by burglars. The robberk secured silver plate valued at SI,OOO. Robert Allen, ,Ir., aged 70 years, a promwent lawyer of lted Bank, N. J., was dead in a wagon house at his home with a bullet wound in his head, lie is supposed to have committed suicide because of business troubles. Fire which originated in the electric cable tunnel in the basement of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit power house in Souih ltrooklyn did $200,000 damage and tied up fur several hours the entire surface and L systems in South Brooklyn. The orders for a restriction of the anthracite coal output have affected nearly all the collieries in the Wilkesbarre, Pa., region. Over 43,000,000 tons of coal have been mined since Jan. 1, which is several million tons more than was ever produced for a like period in the history of the mining industry. The present glut in the market and the efforts to prevent a break in prices is the cause of the restriction. __