Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1898 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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, The New York *■&■■£ Mb Mice from 3 cents to 1 eott aoopy. Willard L. Dean, trsamaer rt Vaamr College, died suddenly-of-heart diaeaae, aged 57 years. Commodore N. L. Woatterly rt tfte Troy Yacht Club and HRM Triends were drowned in the BudsuffW"*Sherman Boar, mfoi jfaj. Seaatnr Boar, died at his home cord, Mam,, of typhoid fewer, contr&feCpjn the soldier camps of the South. **—«•*■ At Montclair, N. J-, Jfrpjjgs Mulligan, the 10-year-old daughter*® 4 Mr. and Mrs. William Mulligan, wasMUufli Iff « horse and died shortly Two men who gave.'their names as Loren Lake and EdwWrt /Snellenbetg, poultry dealers of PayneJjQlfin, lost to “green goods” men York. Ex-Mayor Oakey H®HdtNew YoA died suddenly in the a * e - Mr. Hall had been ill fjrstaue time ' buX his death was somewimakyi rrrected. Clarence Ragsdale, a **■! estate agent in Moberly, Mo., went ABr Slew York to buy $3,000 worth of coiitferfeit money for SSOO. Be got for hfchcnsh a tin box full of pasteboard, Bank Examiner Kimball has reported to Comptroller Dawes thak. depositors in the Tradesmen's Bank, which recently suspended in New*YoA-City, will probably be paid in fulfe~The First Congregational Church rt Jersey City proposes topnt the sanction rt the church on dancing, and to help its young people learn by providing a competent instructor for them. The leather firm of Bockman. Bissell & Co., of Boston, assigned to George W. < Brown of the firm of Bullivaut, Brown & Friske. They have been doing a business of between $500,009 and $7301000 * year. The steamer Lucania. Captain McKay. New York for Liverpool, was sighted off Brow Head apparently in a disabled •condition. The mishap to the Lucania occurred when she was forty miles west of Fastnet rock. Fire in the brewery of Lembedk to Beta, Newark. N. J.. destroyed the interior of the main building, six stories high, with the stock. Loss, $300,000. The -fire was caused by spontaneous combustion in the ammonia room. Three thousand dollars’ worth of jewels and family plate was stolen from the house of Mrs. MeGuire, in East ■Chester, N. Y., supposedly by sound pirates. who afterward escaped in tfaeir boat. Mrs. McGuire is the widow of a millionaire contractor of New York City. The Supreme Court in Brooklyn has decided that surface railroads which issue transfer tickets are obliged to accept "the same even if the time limit has expired, providing the ]terson bolding the ticket has been unable to secure a seat in a car before the time speified has jmssed. Wearied by the vanity of society. Thomas Hefferman, a well-known athlete and social favorite in New York and Brooklyn. has renounced the world and entered the Society of the Christian Brothers, an organization devoted to teaching. Young Hefferman. who is 28 years old. is known as an oarsman throughout the middle Atlantic States. Mayor Van Wyck of Greater New York was made the victim of a hoax by being sent a letter to which the name of General Collis was forged, and which threatened him with “severe and public chafttiaemeut” if he made any further -statements reflecting upon the honesty of •General Collis as commissioner of public works under Mayor Strong.