Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1898 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

Es-Mayor Frits HL Twitchell, one of Bath’s most prominent citizens, a member of Gov. Power’s council and well known In business circles in Maine and Massa- ' chusetts, is a confessed embezzler. The amount of embezzlement is placed at $60,000. . , • I Fire, smoke and water ruined or damaged about $200,000 worth of flour in the New York Central freight house in Buffalo, The flour, which is owned by three Minneapolis companies, was fully insured. The freight house and dock were damaged to the extent of but a few dollars. The torpedo boat Davis, being constructed at Wolff & Sewlicker’s iron works, Portland, Ore., was given a preliminary trial trip for forty miles. It is stated the boat made eighteen knots and the trial was entirely satisfactory. The required speed is twenty-two and onehalf knots. At a meeting of the directors of the Pacific Cable Company in New York plans were considered for establishing cable communication with the Philippines, the Asiatic coast, Japan and Austrilia, via Hawaii. Surveys for a duplicate cable by way of Sitka and the Aleutian Islands were ordered. By the accidental jibing of the sail of a pleasure yacht on Presque Isle Bay, near Erie, Pa., four young Women were swept off into the water and drowned before assistance could be rendered them. Their names are Mary, Della and Ella Pardine, daughters of William Pardine, an Erie machinist, and Jessie Moore, daughter of John M. Moore, an engineer on the Erie and Pittsburg road. An appalling disaster occurred in Cohoes, N. Y. A trolley car of the Troy City Bailroad Company was struck by the night boat special of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad at a crossing at the west end of the Hudson river bridge which connects the city with Lansingburg, and its load of human freight was hurled into the air. Eighteen of the thirty-five passengers are dead and at least ten of the remainder will die. Fire in the Newark celluloid works and neighboring buildings at West Scott and Darcy streets, Newark, N. J., did fully $200,000 damage. Owing to the inflammable nature of the contents of the factory the blaze made an intensely hot lire. The lire started in the converting department of the big building and spread with greater rapidity than had the building been oil-soaked. Most of the surrounding buildings were three stories high, and were occupied by people working in the factory. They were rescued with difficulty and most of them lost all their household goods. Fourteen persons were injured and taken to hospitals, some of the persons being seriously burned. Train No. 5 of the New York, Ontario and Western Railroad, known as “The Chicago Limited,” was wrecked at Ingalls Crossing, four miles south of Fulton, N. Y. The wreck was doubtless due to the dastardly work of tramps, who threw’ open the switch at which the train was wrecked, as well as two switches to the north of the wreck. The train was an hour and a quarter late and running nearly sixty miles an hour when it struck the switch and was thrown over to the side track. The rapid speed made it impossible to make a sharp turn, and the train left the track when it struck the safety rail. The egine was thrown twenty feet and blown to pieces. The tender was inverted. . The trucks of the baggage car were torn off and the head coach telescoped the baggage car. A vestibuled chair car and the sleeper Farragut were derailed, but neither was badly damaged. Engineer Dowd and Fireman Hall both jumped and were found under the wreckage of the tender by passengers from the slebper. Dowd died in a few minutes and Hall three hours laler. The body of Brakeman Osborn was torn in two. Several passengers were bruised and otherwise slightly injured.