Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1898 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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In Philadelphia Thomas Fitzgerald, aged 22, was overcome by heat while in bed and died.

Clarence Cavanaugh, an escaped prisoner, from Warreu. Ohio, was caught at Harrisburg, Pa. In New York, Unities Brothers, manufacturers of pianos, assigned to John A. Jarvis, without preferences. The company has a capital stock of $50,()00. The liabilities are reportefyto be less than $35,000.

- Edward Bender, n prisoner in the Tombs, New York, awaiting trial for the killing of Richard Bennett in April last, committed suicide by hanging himself in his cell. He made a rope of medical bandages and carefully souped it in order that the noose should slip readily. The small excursion steamer Surf City, with about sixty passengers on board, while half way over from .Salem Willows to her wharf at Beverly, Mass., a distance of about two miles, was struck by a terrific squall and capsized. Of those on. board a large majority were rescued by boats from the Salem and Beverly shores. Six bodies have been recovered. One life was lost and two persons are lying at the point of death os a result of a fire in the dwelling Patrick H. Flannery, 3002 Locust street. West Philadelphia. The fire was started by the ignition of coal oil, witli which Mrs. Flannery was bathing her arm to relieve rheumatic pain. The flames spread rapidly and a child was burned to death before it could be rescued.