Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1896 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

Word was received at Wilkesbarrt* Pa., from Pittsfield Junction that a terrific explosion occurred in thq Twin shaft Wednesday. Four miners are reported killed aud a number injured. Prominent residents of II«pewell, X. J., have organized the James' W.j Marshall National Monument Association of New Jersey, to erect a monument to the memoty ot Jataes W. Atarsball, who first discovered gold in "California on Jan. 24, 1848. Marshall was Iwrn near Glen more, in Mercer County, where it is proposed to eroet the monument.- An appeal for subscriptions will be made to California pioneers throughout the cbuiuffSr. Cnrieton Baldwin, a young farmer, living u#iu/UaK»i»-f lily. death in a peculiar manner, Baldwin had a high and ,■ uncontrollable temper, and while hitehingf up his horses had trouble with one of them. He rushed into the house for his gun anyl shot one of the horses and then, it is supposed 1 , accidentally discharged the weapon while beating the dying animal over the head with the, butt of the gun. The butt of the gun Was befit and badly broken. . The National Woman’s Suffrage Association lias elected,these officers: Honorary president, Elizabeth Cady Stanton; president, Susan B. Anthony, Rochester. N, Y.; vice-president at large, Rev. Anna 11. Shaw, Philadelphia. Pa.; corresponding secret a ry.i Ita chcl Foster Avery, Philadelphia, Pa.; ngrofding secretary, Alice Stone Blackwell. Boston, Mass.; treasurer, Harriet Taylor Upton, Warren. Ohio; chairman committee on organization, Carrie Chapman. Oait. New York city. Five persons were killed and nearly qr score injured, sonic of them fatally, by the explosion of the largelhirty-ninc-inch cylinder boiler ut the works of the Hollidaysburg. Pa.. Iron and -Nail Company Thursday morning., Only two employes escaped uninjured. The boiler was blown through the roof qf the Works, 200 feet in midair, and came sailing down like a spent rocket, crushing through the roof in another department of the works. The entire roof was precipitated to the floor below by the force "of the explosion and the works were practically wrecked. The explosion was sufficient to rock the earth with the force of nil earthquake and broke hundreds of windows a quarter of a mile frotp the mill. No explanation is offered as to the cause of the explosion. Some of the employes say they were short of steam before the accident occurred.