Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1903 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Bertel’s tin factory at Wilkeabarre, pa., waa destroyed by firs. The loss la $45,000. Peter Colooaian, an Armenian, waa found murdered in Providence, R. 1., and SSOO which he had collected to found a school is missing. While digging for coal in an abandoned' mine near Draveburg, Pa., two men diacovered a thieves’ cave with $5,000 worth of clothing and valuables. Gordon McKay, inventor of the shoesewing machine, who died in Newport, R. 1., is said to have left $4,000,000, perhaps much more, to Horvurd University. An official order revoking the quarantine against cattle, sheep hud swine in Massachusetts and New Hampshire has been issued by the Secretary of Agriculture. Tho Pennsylvania Railroad Company haa issued orders to cut down the force in the Altoona shops 10 per cent, M’hich will necessitate the suspension of 800 man. George Duncan of New York, a nephew of George B. Edwards, president of the Deposit Bank of Louisville, Ky., was accidentally killed while out hunting. Silver, lead and bullion worth SIOO,OOO has been recovered by wreckers from the bottom of Staten Island sound, -where it fell from the deck of a steamer on Sept. 27. The International Training School of the Young Men’s Christian Association of Springfield, Mass., received a gift of $20,000 toward its endowment fund of $135,000.

* Caleb Simms, leader of the United Colored Democracy, was shot dead in the headquarters of that organization in West Fifty-ninth street, New York, by Alam Padro. Twenty-seven hundred actors and actresses are idle in New York, unable to secure engagements, this being the hardest season for ten years, owing to strikes which have delayed the opening of many houses. John I>. Rockefeller and other Standard Oil directors are reported to be greatly alarmed at the falling off in the production in tli i Pennsylvania field and to be making extraordinary efforts to secure new sources of supply. Eight men wgre killed, tn-o are missing and four were badly hurt by the collapse of a traveler crane on the Pittsburg end of the new Wabash Railroad bridge over the Monongahela river. President Roosevelt, speaking at the nnveiliug of a monument to Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman in Washington, held up the famous commander as a model American and a towering type of the clean, able and fearless patriot. Peter Elliott of Minnesota, who was arrested at the White House Oct. 5 and who made a violent attack upon the officers who had him, in custody, has been officially adjudged insane and recommitted to St. Elizabeth's insane asylum. John Alexander Dowie and his restoration host of 3,500 persons have arrived in New York ready for the crusade against sin. Mrs. Dowie was robbed of a diamond brooch worth $1,500 nt the ralhvay station immediately upon her arrival. A. E. Bell, the confessed mail pouch robber and check forger, Who was arrested in Denver, escaped from a Pullman car just before the train to u-hich the car was attached arrived at the Pennsylvania Railroad station in Philadelphia.