Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1898 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Miss Ruth M. Osborne, daughter of D. M. Osborne, the millionaire reaper manufacturer of Auburn, N. Y., is dead of consumption at Denver, Colo, The strike of the employes of the Syracuse, N. Y., Rapid Transit Railway Company was settled uud the men returned to work. Russell Sage crossed off the eighty-sec-ond in life’s calendar the other day. The new milestone, found him vigorous, busy and cheerful. Frank T. Stimson, his son, 2% years old, and his daughter Mabel, 6 years old, died at their home in Brooklyn, N. Y., from ptomaine poisoning, caused by eating heartily of blackberries. Fire broke out in the chapel of the Niagara University, a Catholic institution near Niagara Falls, N. Y. The chapel was almost completely destroyed. The loss is estimated at $70,000. The fire is attributed to an incendiary. At North Vuesalhoro, Me., the woolen mills owned by Samuel Williams of Boston and Thomas Sampson of Winslow have shut down for an unknown period, owing to poor markets. About 600 hands are thrown out of employment. Two cars on the Belt Line trolley road of Utica.' N. Y., went through Bradley’s bridge, near Whitesboro, and seventeen passengers were precipitated into the Erie canal. Miss Mary Brady was the only person killed. Several were injured. Charles Yobansen, a blind man 43 years of age, and his wife, Christia, three years his junior, \yere found dead at South River, near New Brunswick, N. Y. It is the general opinion that the woman killed her husband and then committed suicide. Mayor Van Wyek, us an honorary member of the New Y'ork division of the volunteer life-saving corps of the State of New York, is entitled to a medal for saving three lives. The presentation of such will take place some time next month in the Mayor’s office. The first arrest in connection with the Jeruegan ease was made at Lubec, Me., when William Arrington, the chemist of the Electrolytic Mining Salts Company, was taken into custody, charged with being implicated in the fraud. He was arraigned l>efore a trial justice and held in $25,000 for his appearance in the Supreme Court in October. Johu Petitt, a millionaire real estate man and head of the John Petitt Realty Company, is missing from New York, and his presence there cannot he accounted for since throe weeks ago. Some say he has been gone four months. His absence was discovered through an attempt to get service on him in a suit brought to set aside the conveyance of certain property.

West-bound way passenger train No, 59, leaving New Haven at 3 p. m. and due in South Norwalk. Conn., at 4:07 o’clock, collided head-on the other afternoon with a switching freight train from the Danbury division on-the Washington street bridge. Isaac Davis, a freight brakemnn, was killed and the engineers and firemen on both trains were more or less injured, but the passengers suffered only a Severe jolting. ( Three men killed and a number of rnfftt-elerka^wiwe severely injured on the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad at Canton Junction, Mass., by an express mail special from "New \ork to Boston jumping the tracks. The accident wns caused by a misplaced switch. The special was running at high speed on a down grade. At the bottom of the slope the switch at a siding failed to work and in an instant the ears were off the track. The engine and forward car were turned over on their sidt-s, and the other three cars were thrown from their trucks.