Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1884 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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A falling tree at Catawissa, Pa., killed three men. An exhibition was made at Salem, Mass., the other day, of the “paraffine Eoap” bleaching process, which takes but a few hours, and it is thought will revolutionize the bleaching business of the world. Carl Schurz, in a letter expressing his gratitude, declines to acoept the purse of SIOO,OOO which was being made up by his friends in New York, and requests that all contributions be returned. The Bell Telephone Company, at Boston, in experimenting with a No. 12 wire and an ordinary instrument, could hear the faintest whisper in an attempted conversa tion with New York. The nitro-glycerine house of the Rapauno chemical works, located opposite Chester, Pa., exploded from heat generated by nitric acid. Six persons were instantly killed. Many houses across the river were badly shaken by the explosion.