Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1883 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Hon. Marshall Jewell, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, and who had served as Postmaster General, Minister to Russia and three terms as Governor of Connecticut, died at Hartford. He was 57 years of age. Charles R. Thorne, the actor, died at New York of gout of the stomach, aged 43years. At Rondout, N. Y., a large building occupied by railway and steamboat offices, the ice-house (containing 2,000 tons) of the Cornell Steamboat Company and the steamer City of Catskill were burned. Loss $150,000. The Bay State Iron Company, of Boston, has suspended operations, with liabilities of $€50,000. The plant is said to be worth $1,000,000. Stuart Robson delivered an address at the funeral of Charles R. Thorne, Jr., the actor, but there were no religious ceremoniea A telegram of sympathy from Robert J. Ingersoll was read. The Boston Board of Aldermen has passed an order for lighting all the streets by electricity. Collender’s seven-story billiard factory at Stamford, Conn., was swept away by fire. The loss is placed at $250,000. Over $25,000 has been expended on the crypt under the cathedral at Garden City, Long Island, but the corpse of-A T. Steward is still missing. A court at Troy, N. Y., annulled the marriage of Samuel Hides, aged 77 years, and a clairvoyant named Mann, and candled the deeds to property given the bride. Two hardware manufactories and a spectacle factory at Reading, Pa, have closed for a period, owing to dullness of trade. The Reading Railway Company has also reduced its car-shop force by 150 men. At Wilton, Conn., in the room in which her father's corpse lay, ready for burial, Miss Gregory was married. It was in accordance with the wishes of her deceased parent. Edwin D. Morgan, the war Governor of New York, has passed away, at the age of 72. Early in life he proved himself possessed of business abilities of a high order, and for more than a generation he had been at the head of one of the largest mercantile houses In New York City. At the funeral of Edwin D. Morgan in New York, President Arthur, John Jacob Astor and Hugh J. Jewett appeared among the pall-bearer a The remains were Interred at Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford. y / James D. Fish’, President of the Marine Nationalßank of New York, purchased Booth’s Theater for $550, ogo,