Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1903 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Charles B. Ailing, a millionaire of Derby, Conn., aged TO years, helped fight , a fire in hip Woolen mill and died from hie exertions In Taunton, Maes., Peter Clark, aged 11, wae shot dead by Walter E. Baaaett, aged 13, and the latter is now locked up on the charge of homicide. William L. Elkins, traction magnate, financier and patron of art. passed away in his summer home, Ashbourne, near Philadelphia, aged 71 years. A few hours before he was to have married Lillian Robertson, William Warren, a newspaper man at Chester, Pacommitted suicide in bis newly furnished home. Gordon McKay's will gives Harvard 80 per cent of net iucomo from his $20,000,000 estate and in time the principal. Sous, cut off with small annuities, may contest. It is reported in New York that the Rockefeller interests have secured control of the steel trust and that as a result the ship building scandal will be squelched. Carrie Nation made her debut ou the stage at Elizabeth, N. J., in a revision of “Ten Nights in a Barroom," in which the hatchet wieldcr and grogshop smasher appeared at the heroine. Judge Lacombe, of the Federal Court in New York, ordered the deportation of John Turner, the English anarchist, being the first application of the new law forbidding “reds" entrance here. The Carnegio medals for paintings were awarded at Pittsburg to Frank W. Benson, Salem, Mass., for “A Woman Reading,” and to Bryson Boroughs, of New York, for "Ariadne Abandoned.” Delegates of the Central Labor Union of Philadelphia had a heated discussion over the assertion that a union man violates trade union principles when he allows his wife to mend his overcoat. Colonel A. K. McClure has been appointed prothonotary of the Supreme Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Colonel Charles S. GreeneSamuel J. Parks, the New York walking delegate, warned unionists against having money deals with employers. He has been sentenced to two years and three months at hard labor for extortion. Martin Locw was found dead and Ephraim Stone in a serious condition after being initiated into the Phi Psi Chi fraternity in the University of Maryland. The president of the chapter has been placed under arrest. The little daughter born to Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Monday will be heir to one of the largest fortunes in the world. Mrs. Rockefeller is the daughter of United States Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island. This is their first child. Commissioner of Immigration Frank P. Sargent suffered a severe attack of paralysis at his apartments in Washington. Mr. Sargent shows rallying powers and his condition is reported much improved. The attack was probably caused by excessive work. Ten thousand women fought with the New York police to sec Miss May Goelet, who was married to the Duke of Roxburghe. They stopped her carriage and climbed on the steps, peering into the windows. Finally souvenir hunters despoiled the church decorations. Clara Josephine Coffin, 17 years old, daughter of a Standard Oil man, living in East Orange, N. J., was hypnotized by a mysterious woman and abducted. At Cedar Rapids, lowa, the school girl escaped and reached the home of her cousin, Postmaster Crow of Omaha. A policeman discovered a printing plant in Lynn, Mass., from which millions of bogus lottery tickets have been sent and sold all over the country in the last few years. William S. Wells was arrested and made a partial confession, implicating men in Dayton, Ohio, and New York.