Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1898 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Stockholders of the Boston National Bank have voted to go into liquidation. At Norwich, Conn., Mrs. Ellen Augusta Wells, aged 70, widow of the late David A. Wells, died suddenly at the family residence from apoplexy. James Dickinson Rhodes, a wealthy car-wheel manufacturer of Pittsburg, Pa., and Miss Mehrs Edwards of St. Joseph, Mo., were married recently. Rev. Dr. Stuart Dodge of New York has been appointed president of the home missions board of the Presbyterian Church, to succeed the late Dr. John Hall. The United States survey steamer Pathfinder was launched from the Nixon shipyards in Elizabeth, N. J. Miss Ruth W. Crandon of Evanston, 111., christehed the vessel. Henry Mortimer Platt is dead at his home in New York, aged 76 years. Fifty years ago he established in that city the first gold and silver refinery in the United States. The hat factory of John W. Green & Co., Danbury, Conn., was destroyed by fire. Loss $125,000, insurance SIOI,OOO. Four hundred men are thrown out of employment. Three jurymen, who favored acquittal, prevented the conviction of 72-year-o!d Mrs. Margaret Cody, nt Albany, N. Y., on the charge of blackmailing the Gould heirs. The case will be tried again in February. The Baltimore and Northern Electric Railway Company, backed by a syndicate Of New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore capitalists, has purchased the Baltimore City Passenger Railway property. There is involved in the transaction $12,600,000. At Savannah, Private J. E. Moore of Battery A, First Maine artillery, was fined SSOO and costs or six months on the chain gang for assault and battery upon Solicitor W. W. Osborne, and for embracing ar woman on the street while intoxicated. The battle ship Massachusetts, less than an hour out of her berth in the Brooklyn navy yard, struck the bottom or some obstruction off Governor’s Island, and was taken to the navy yard with her bottom stove in and three compartments filled wit,h water. Harmonie Hal), in Philadelphia, the headquarters of a number of German singing societies, was gutted by fire. The loss, which is estimated at $50,000, is partly covered by insurance. The janitor and bis wife and three children were rescued by the firemen. Carl Mcßride and his wife were instantly killed by an express train at Raccoon Station, Pa., on the Panhandle road. They were driving in a sleigh and were crossing the tracks when the train dashed into them, both being terribly mangled and almost instantly killed. At Philadelphia W. A. Steele, formerly cashier of the collapsed Chestnut Street National Bank, wns found guilty of aiding and abetting the late William M. Singerly in misapplying the funds of the institution and making false reports to the comptroller of the currency. Four persons lost their lives in a fire at 134 Prospect street, Brooklyn, N. Y. Three were burned while trying to escape; the fourth met death while trying to save others. The fire was in a five-story flat building occupied by five families. In the basement was a boys’ club, and the flames started there.

The scheme of F. L. Tappscott of New York to form a sewer pipe trust having failed, W. 11. Easthind of Toronto has proposed a sales agency combine, which shall have the handling of the product of all factories, including the fixing of prices. It is probable that the organization will be effected before Jan. 1. Andrew Smith of Pharsalia, N. Y., who front West last spring and was reported drowned, has returned to his home. His brother was arrested in Baldwin. Mich., charged with robbing a grave and palming off the body to an insurance company as that of Andrew Smith, but was acquitted for lack of evidence. •