Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1898 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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George Heyman, the New York furniture dealer, has failed. His liabilities are $200,000. Joseph Murphy, the actor, Is planning to embark in the summer hotel business in New Hampshire. * The home of the famous Dickey Club of Harvard University on Brattle street, Boston, was burned. The American Fireproof Wood Company was incorporated at Trenton, N. J., with a capital of $1,000,000. Charles Walter Couldock died at his home in New York City, after an illness extending over several Weeks, The Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott has resigned the pastorate of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, which he Ims filled for ten years. f The strike at the Corbin and Excelsior collieries at Sluimokin. Bn., lias been declared off, the operators agreeing to lower the price of supplies. The firm of Colburn, Fuller & Co., boot and shoe manufacturers of Boston and of Dorry, Mass., made a voluntary assignment. The liabilities are estimated at $300,000, largely in notes. The second-class protected cruiser Kasaigi, built by the Cramps for the Japanese Government and which left New York recently for Newcastle, sustained considerable injury by colliding with and damaging a bridge abutment at the latter place. Joseph Schroppler, while being chased by a workman in a factory at Trenton, N. J„ tumbled into a vat of vitriol. Not realizing his danger, after being helped out, he started for home, but on the Way the acid began eating into his flesh. Both legs must be'amputated. At Toledo, Judge Taft accepted the resignation of Receiver Pierce of the Clover Leaf Railway. It is to take effect Dec. 1. Samuel Hunt of Cincinnati, an official of the Cincinnati, Portsmouth and Virginia road, was named by the court for the vacant receivership. Gov. Hastings of Pennsylvania has allowed the requisition of Gov. Bushtiell for the return to Ohio of Frank D. Magowan, Mrs. Frank D. Magowan and her sister. Mrs. S, 11. Wynn, to stand trial on the charge of kidnaping Ethel Beryl Barnes, daughter of Mrs. Magowan by her first husband. Miss Nora Bitner, a highly respected young woman of Allegheny, Pa,, was beaten so bndl.v by three girjs, none of whom is over 15 years of ago. that she will probably die. Her assailants—-Mamie Wright, Sophie Mickle and Victoria Bennet—are in jail. Miss Bitner, with a young woman companion, was walking along East Ohio street, and in passing a group of young girls at play mnde some jocular remark concerning the party, whereupon one of the youngsters grabbed her by the hair and pulled her to the ground. While prostrate. Miss Bitner was kicked on the head and beaten into insensibility.