Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1898 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

Barnes Compton, formerly member of Congress, died at Laurel, Md. John Taylor Gause, president of the Harlan & Hollingsworth Company, is dead at Wilmington. Del. The Bloomburg novelty works, Bloomburg, Pa., were destroyed by fire. Losss6o,ooo, insurance $25,000. The-will of the late Charles P. Wilder of Wellesly Hills, N. Y„ bequeaths $102,• 000 to Mount Holyoke College. Fire destroyed the big nail mill of the F. A. Godcharles Company in Milton, Pa. Loss SIOO,OOO, insurance $25,000. At Canajoharie. N. ¥., the candy factory of the Pettit Manufacturing Company was destroyed by fire. The loss is $50,000. Andrew Carnegie has paid s‘.>oo,ooo for two lots on Fifth avenue, New York, and oh one of them proposes to erect a $1,000,000 residence. A five-story building was destroyed and two skv scrapers were badly damaged by fire on Lower Broadway, New York. The loss is over $1,000,000. The Manhattan Concrete Company, New York City, building contractor, has made a general assignment. Liabilities $(>0,000, assets about $50,000. A boxing class has been started in connection with the Institute of St. John’s Episcopal Church, Jersey City, of which Rev. Dr. E. L. Stoddard is the rector. Fire wrecked the end of St. Agnes’" Catholic Church on Fifty-third street. New York, destroying valuable altars, paintings afel a new organ. Loss SIOO,000.

The Erie Railroad Company has just ■completed the purjhase <>f 7,000 acres of coal land in the soft coal district of Pennsylvania, for Which the company paid $300,000. Mrs. Sarah Casin of Brooklyn. N. Y„ was killed by a trolley car in New York, and a crowd who saw the accident tried to lynch the motorman. He was rescued by the police. Nirs, Richard Hurley of Peabody, Mass., supposed to be insane, killed her 12-year-old daughter and then attempted to kill her 7-year-61d son by beating them over the head with crockery. In the trial of Mrs. Mary E. Zelner, charged with the murder of her aged husband, Reuben Zelner, by poisoning, at Philadelphia, the jury without leaving the box rendered a verdict of not guilty. A landslide brought on by the rain and snow melting caused a bad wreck on the New York. Susquehanna and Western Railroad near Swartwood, N. J. Three trainmen were badly injured and the road was blocked to traffic. The timely discovery by a special officer of a man in the act of starting a fire in the baiement of John Wanamaker’s department store in Philadelphia, no doubt saved a serious conflagration and possibly the lives of ninny persons. Justice Wright has granted the motion of the attorneys for the Knickerbocker Trust Company of New York to foreclose bonds against the Oswego, N. Y„ Electric Street Railway for $125,000 and ordered its sale a few weeks hence.

The Consolidated Tin Plate Company, a corporation formed under the laws of New Jersey, with ;t capita! stock of $50,01)0,000, was formally organized at Pittsburg, Pa. 'rhe combine will take hold of nearly all the mills in the country on Dec. 15. Articles of incorporation of the American Linseed Oil Company, with an authorized capital stock of $33,500,000, were filed with the Secretary of State at Trenton. N. J. One-half of the capital stock is preferred, to bear a dividend of 7 per cent. A train on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad hear Ivy City, Md., struck a carriage in which were four children on their way to school, causing the instant death of Fannie BMI Harris and James Gray, two of the children, and severely injuring a boy named McDonough, who was driving. In Rochester, N. Y., fire was discovered in the Academy of Music, where the melodrama, “The Wheel of Fortune,” was playing. In the play then' were two explosion scenes, which may have caused the fire. The loss, including theater and damage to adjoining property, will probably reach SIOO,OOO.