Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1903 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Four postoffleo robbers waro convicted st Scranton, Pa. * Ebenezer Matthews, agad 102, tha old«st man In northwestern Pennsylvania, died die other day at Erie. Coke operators in the neighborhood of Pittsburg, Pa., have decided to sustain prices by regulating the production. The American League of Civic Improvement of Pittsburg, Pa., 1# planning a model city for the St. Louis exposition. The ateamer Manhattan, which endeavored to find shelter under Grand Island, Lake Superior, burned Monday night, near Beacon Ligfat. Cashier E. R. Kramer of the First Rational Bank, Allegheny, Pa., dropped lead at his homp. The closing of the bank worried him into a stroke of apoplexy. Fire destroyed the big repair shops of the Pittsburg and Western Railroad at Allegheny, Pa. Loss SIOO,OOO. Five hundred workmen are thrown out of work. One hundred industrial stocks hare shrunk $1,753,960,703 since recent boom, according to statisticians; Standard Oil $243,750,000 lower; Morgan group $lB,200,000. President Roosevelt passed his fortyfifth birthday quietly at the White House on Tuesday, receiving many congratulations from various parts of the country. Surrogate Marcus at Buffalo has handed down a decision by which Mrs. Burdick, widow of Edwin L. Burdick, gains full control of the property left by her husband. Conductor James Rowan and Fireman Leslie A. Heim were killed by the explosion of a freight locomotive on the Pennsylvania Railroad, near Rohrerstown, Pa. Gen. David G. Gregg of Reading, Pn., waa elected commander-in-chief of the military order of the Loyal Legion of the United States at the annual meeting iu Philadelphia. George Sherman, aged 18, of Cleveland, grandson of General \V. T. Sherman, a freshman at Yale, fell from a cliff near New Haven, Conn., and died from his injuries. At the Universnlist Church convention in Washington fortper Gov. S. E. Perhnm of Maine said the trend of most of the religious denominations now is toward Universnlism. A skiff containing five Hungarian laborers was swept over the Springdale dam, near Colfax Station, Pa., iu the early morning fog, nnd four of the occupuuts were drowned. The schooner John Mark, with a cargo of stone, went to the bottom of Lake Erie in a storm off Kelley’s Island. The crew was saved by the life savers from the Marblehead station. Gen. John C. Black of Chicago, com-mander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, is at Garfield hospital in Washington, D. C., suffering from a severe attack of rheumatism. Acting on orders from Secretary Cortelyou, officers raided an alleged anarchist meeting iu New York aud arrested John Turner, an Englishman, on the charge of promoting anarchy. Mrs. Catherine Reddy of Yonkers, N. Y., was awnrded a verdict of $50,000 in a suit for SIOO,OOO damages against the New York Central Railroad. Mrs. Reddy was budly injured in a wreck. Rev. Merle St C. Wright of New York declares that where the prolongation of life simply means a prolongation of hopeless agony a patient should be quietly allowed to end bis suffering.