Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1903 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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i The smallpox epidemic at Bhiladelphla , la alarming. Because of a cut of 7 cents on each ten yards of silk woven 250 girla struck in the Duplin silk mill, Hazleton, Pa. j Two hundred and fifty men in the Pennsylvania Railroad shops at Harris- j burg. Pa., suffered a reduction of 10 per . cent. 1 After a bitter debate the American [ Federation of Labor, in convention at Boston, defeated a resolution pledging it to socialism. Annie Eagan, 24 years old, formerly of Chicago, committed suicide and killed her 17-month-old child at Brooklyn by leaving open a gas fixture. The plant of the New Freedom Wire Cloth Company, a short distance from York, l*a., was destroyed by fire. The loss is $75,000, partly insured. Fire which started in the Clark block in Batavia, N. Y„ did $20,000 damage. A shirt factory, chemical cotnpany, drug store and jeweler’s shop were destroyed. Three persons were burned to death in a fire which destroyed the power house of the sanitarium at Markleton, near Somerset, Pa. It is not known how the fire started. Abraham Custer was fatally injured during a fire at R. Herksher & Sons’ furnaces at Norristown, I’a. Joseph Van Dusky was badly burned. Tl.e loss is estimated at $50,000. William H. Young, an artilleryman at For£ Washington, was fined S2O nt Washington for cursing in the presence of Mrs. Roosevelt and he was sent to jail in default of payment of the fine. Train wreckers caused the wreck of the Doylestowu locul on the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad near Gwynedd, a suburb of Philadelphia, in which two persons were killed and nearly twenty injured. William A anderbilt Kissnm, nephew of the late Mrs. William 11. Vanderbilt, was found dead in a chair iu a sitting room in the Planters’ Hotel, a cheap lodging in Newark, N. J. Death was dije to heart trouble. Two disasters are reported from Pennsylvania. At Dunbar eleven are known to have died in a mine explosion, and at Johnstown twenty-eight railroad men suffered cremation rather than sacrifice their hoarded savings. A silent organ in the lodgings occupied by Hart P. Danks, the musical composer, in Philadelphia, led to the discovery 1 lint lie was dead. He was 79 years of age and bad a national reputation ns a siuger and song writer. Charges of cruelty to insane patients in the Manhattan State hospital on Ward’s Island, in New York, are made by Miss Elizabeth Knanss of Waterloo, who has just returned after spending two weeks ns an attendant in that institution. Two persons were killed nnd fully a dozen injured by a collision of Brooklyn Rnpld Transit elevated trains. Fire destroyed the wrecked oars, and Ihe panicstricken passengers jumped anil clambered from the elevated structure to the ground. District Attorney Liehtenwnlnor, at Allentown, l*a,. caused the issuance of warrants charging Mrs. Catherine Bechtel, Myrthn, Charles nnd John Bechtel nnd Alois Eckstein with being accessories before the fact of the murder of Mabel Bechtel.

At (he meeting of the Pennsylvania conference of the National Reform Association in Harrisburg. Pn., Rev. Dr. Sylvester F. Scovel deplored the desecration of Thanksgiving day by frivolous sports and criticised institutions of learning that encouraged football games on that day. In a raid on alleged counterfeiters in the home of Salvatore Birindo, 2005 First avenue, New York, she officers found the formula for making the bogus metal written in a Bible. Four big sticks of dynamite, weighing six pounds, a coil of fuse and fulminating caps were also found. The alleged counterfeiters were held for trial. Edward«£Wynne of Philadelphia has been arrested on a complaint charging him with having deserted his wife nineteen years ago. Thinking the body of n soldier in the almshouse at Cleveland was that of her husband, .Mrs. Wynne burled it and collected the life insurance. She had supported herself for the last nineteen years. Somewhere in or near New Y’ork Henry Baxter Kingsley, of Rutland, Vt.. is either in hiding or imprisoned by kidnapers. For two days and nights the entire police force has been searching unnvailtngly for some clew as to his whereabouts. For three days before the police were called his family and friends had sought him. Carrie Nation Was forcibly ejected from the executive offices in Washington the oilier morning. She called there early and demanded to see the President. Secretary Loeb declined to allow her to see Mr. Roosevelt and she became so demonstrative that he called upon two officers to remove her. She continued to shout so loud that it was necessary to take her out of the grounds. As she left the building she shouted: “I am going to pray for a prohibitionist President. One who will represent the people and not the distillers and brewers," Mrs. Nation later appeared in the gallery of the Senate and shouted out something about saloons. She Was ejected by doorkeepers.