Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1898 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Diego Re Vivo, one of the best known. Impresarios in the United States, died at his home in New York from paralysis. Rose O’Toole, ten years pf age, was killat Worcester, Mass., by falling from the fourth floor of a building forty feet to the ground. The greatest gas well which has been developed in New Yofk State, and probably the largest in the world, was struck in an old well at Baldwinsvillp. The window glass scale trouble was unexpectedly settled at Pittsburg, ■Pa., and 20,000 men throughout the country will return to work next month. 0,000 of them at an advance in wages. United States Senator George G. Vest of Missouri is lying critienlly ill in Asbury Park, N. J. Senator Vest has been ill for some time, but a rapid decline, such as, it is said, he suffered within the last few days, was unlooked for. Henry It. Curtis anil Edwin A. Curtis, surviving partners of the firm of Edwin C. Burt & Co., dealers in shoes at New York, assigned for the benefit of creditors to Thomas Cunningham of Biauvelt, Rockland County. N. Y. The liabilities are set down at SIIO,OOO. Mme. Demorcst. vice-president of the board of Temple trustees and one of the leading W. C. T. LL women in the country, died at her home in New York City. The deceased was a personal friend of Frances E. Willard and wns the founder of the Demorest rttcdnl contests. While trying to prevent boy inmates from escaping, J. W. Stuckrath, keeper in the Alleghany County, Pa., reformatory, was killed by the lads. Several boys had plotted to escape from the place. When no other guards were around they attacked Stuckrath, who fought them off and was about to open a door to call for assistance when he was felled with a baseball bat. » ' “After years of wrongful living and secret drunkenness, Policeman Henry C. Hawley of New Y’ork finished his earthly career shortly before noon the other day by killing himself, after murdering the mother who raised him, his wife and their twa j-oung children, ju a sqiyilty merit oh the Top Upo? of tne ten&uont 043 Sixth avenue. There he had lived with them in ostensible respectability during almost the whole of his life us a man of family. At I)over, Del., Mrs. J. Polk Deane nnd her sister, Mrs. J. P. Dunning, are dead as the result of poisoning from eating candy. Mrs. Dunning is the wife of J. Preston Dunning, the well-known Associated Press correspondent now in Porto Rico, and both women are daughters of ex-Congressman John PL Pennington. The candy came through the mails. The postmark on the box was not legible, but it is supposed by Mrs. Dunning to have been sent by a friend in San Francisco. The sloop yacht Leona, with seventeen men aboard, while anchored outside of .Boston light, was run into by a barge in tow of the tug Honeybrook and five men were swept from the deck by the heavy towline. Two of the VK Solium n and Albert Nbrdell; were drowned; another, Augustus Caspersdff, was killed by being jammed between the towline and the dock, while the two/other*. Peter Nelson and John Harkinson, although sustaining injuries, were rescued.