Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1903 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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I Harry Rom, theatrical man, pleaded guilty to killing hie wife in New York. Hie Philadelphia Council committee voted to report favorably on the Carnegie library proposition. Thomas McCauley died in Seney hospital, New’ York, us the result of injuries received in a football game. The City of Chicago, the largest steamboat on Chautauqua lake, waa huiued at Jamestown, N. Y. The Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, In convention at Syracuse, N. Y., decided to hold the nest national meeting at Chicago. A. J. Cassatt, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Is trying to sell his town house iu Philadelphia and will live in the country all the time. Gen. William H. Hughes, State Assemblyman, committed suicide at Granville, N. Y., by hanging. He failed in business several months ago. An unexplained explosion destroyed the New York dog pound, injured five men* one probably fatally, and killed hundreds of dogs confined in the place. I‘ollce Marshal Farnam of Baltimore has sent to the grnnd jury the case of Martin Loew, the dental student, who died after being initiated into a college fraternity. Officials of the First National Bank of Duquesuo, Pa., have detectives at work seeking to discover the originators of stories which caused a run on the institution. A negro who attempted to rob a man and shot two policemen in Washington narrowly escaped being lynched in Jackson Square, opposite the residence of President Roosevelt. Strause & Co., importers and wholesale dealers in millinery goods at Philadelphia, have been adjudged bankrupt. The liabilities are estimated at $210,000 and assets SIOI,OOO. Mrs. Frances Sterling, New York, blasted the legend of a stocking as a safe pluco for valuables by declaring she lost from her hosiery on a sleeping car $35,700 worth of diamonds and S3OO in cash. Rumors iu New York are that the Fuller Construction Company, one of the largest building concerns in the country, will temporarily suspend operations because of constantly recurring labor troubles. Father Joseph sCirringione, abducted from his home in Wiliiamsbridge, N. Y., by three men, who hoped to obtain $3,000 he was supposed to carry, was set free after being kept u prisoner for three days. Seventy members of the graduating class of the Western High School at Baltimore mobbed Miss Lilly Buugart, a classmate, whom they accused of “talebearing.” The victim was rescued by the police. Andrew H. Green, known ns the “Father of Greater New York 1 ” and one of the most respected citizens of the metropolis, was shot and killed on his own doorstep by Cornelius M. Williams, an insane man. Twenty-one passengers, ail there were on board, were injured when a Pennsylvania passenger train was derailed just east of the city limits at Buffalo. The body of Engineer Cole was discovered under the wreck. 0