Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1898 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

Thomas W. Keene, the tragedian, ha* gone to his home on Staten Island, N. Y., suffering from an attack of appendicitis. AU Salisbury, Md., Garfield King, negro, aged about 18, was taken from the jail, hanged to a tree and almost shot to pieces. The corning mill of the Hazard Powder Company at Hazardville, Conn., in which fuses were prepared, was blown up. Alfred Dlunden was killed and Foreman James Colburn was seriously injured. While miners were working in the Red Ash vein of the Kaskn William colliery, about ten miles east of Pottsville, Pa., a large body of water was struck and six men are supposed to have been drowned. By an explosion of gas at the Laurel Hill mine of W. P. Rend & Co. of Chicago at Pittsburg, Pa., Robert and Archibald McMullen, brothers, were killed. The men bad gone to an old entry for a machine. The gas had accumulated there and was ignited by their lamps. Robert McMullen was 21 years old and married, and Archibald was 15. The bodies of the two victims were burned to a crisp. The big mine tiffibera were splintered and tons of slate tumbled down. Entry doors were blown off all through the mine. Auxiliaries of the American National Red Cross Society are the order of the day in New York City. Everywhere, in fashionable and middle-class homes, in halls and colleges, women are meeting to discuss ways and means to assist in the nation's war. The Ice Plant auxiliary reports upon the progress of its work. The aim is to provide an ice factory, capacity of one ton per day, and so arranged as to regulated the temperature of the cold storage room on board the Red Cross hospital ambulance ship. Miss Catherine S. "Leverich, secretary, reports a fund of $1,090 already in bank from subscriptions and donations. Under the auspices of Mrs. Seth Low, Mrs. Munroe Smith, Mrs. Francis M. Burdick, Miss Emily James Smith and Mrs. James S. Russell, a Columbia University auxiliary has been formed, also to co-operate in equipping the Red Cross hospital. The war workshops of the Red Cross auxiliaries, as they are called, have been opened in various parts of the same city. The object of the auxiliaries is to provide clothing and other necessaries for use in the hospitals for both soldiers and sailors. Incidentally, too, employment is to be offered to all needy or destitute families of enlisted men. Red Cross Auxiliary No. 2 opened its headquarters in well-lighted upper rooms of the Tuxedo, at Fifty-ninth street and Madison avenue. Several wives of enlisted men applied early for sewing that they could do at home, where they had children to care for. A number of them received work, and other cases tvere left for investigation. Young girls were few in the morning crowd, but by noon half a dozen or more were seated before the sewing machines that stood about the room like desks in schools. A big teapot, with a milk pitcher and a group of cups and saucers, was seen on a table in the ante-room. Hot lunch, 4t was explained, was to be served daily to the workers, and the plan was to include in the bill of fare more substantial things than milk and tea as soon as other arrangements are complete.