Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1898 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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New York ia suffering from an epidemic •f grip. Henry A. Bice, ex-Gorernor of Massachusetts, died at Boston, aged S 2 years. George West, aged 55 years, who married a sister of the late George M. Pullman, is dead at New York. Funeral services for Harlan P. Halsey, the author known as “Old Sleuth,” were held at bis residence in Brooklyn. Former Police Captain John J. Mount died suddenly at New York, aged 80 years. He distinguished himself ia the draft riots of war times. As a result of a coasting accident at Turtle Creek, Pa., near Pittsburg, Joseph West, aged 30. is dead and eleven others are injured, two seriously, W. B. Madey and Joseph Conner. A Pennsylvania train struck a carriage at Allenwood, N. J., killing Jessie Allen, Allie Alger, Jennie Cramer. EUie Allen. David Allen and Kate Allen, wiping out the family of Thomas Allen. The conflict !>etween the sugar trust and Arbuckle Bros, is said to have been settled. It is reported on Wall street that the appearance of hostility was kept up in order to manipulate stocks. The Boot and Shoe Workers’ Union has issued a statement at Marlboro, M as<y that the employers have declined,to mm a committee from the anion with a view of adjusting the existing labor difficulties. Five robbers blew open the safe of the Seaboro oil works at Chester, Pa., after having shot the watchman in the leg and also binding and blind-folding him. The safe and office were badly damaged, but the burglars secured less than $10(1. About S7OO la spurious coin was captured in an Italian tenement-house in Buffalo. The supposed counterfeiters are under arrest in the persons of Frank Ferrol and I’asqunle Antonach, who were captured while engaged in passing the counterfeit money. During a fire in the stables at Fort Adams, Newport, It. 1., a gun shed exploded, killing Private Sullivan of Battery A, Seventh artillery, and injuring eight other soldiers. All the horses were saved, but the stables of light battery F, Fourth artillery, were destroyed. Benjamin Davis, aged 38, a night roller, was killed at the Sharon. Pa., iron works. He wns engaged in putting in a liner on the 12-inch mill, when bis arm caught in the boxing. In an instant his body went through the small space, horribly mutilating it. His head was crushed and his neck broken. Detectives of the Pennsylvania Railroad are endeavoring to get some clew to the vandals who destroyed the interior of several cars of the Chicago limited train while it was sidetracked in the railroad yards at Jersey City. Windows were broken, plush seats torn out and costly decorations mutilated. Lem B. Schloss, 28 years old, a theatrical manager and the husband of Lottie Gilson, the actress, shot himself ia his room in the Hotel Veudome, New York. He fired four shots from a revolver, but only one of them bit him, inflicting a slight scplp wound. Schloss declared the shoo?h*g was accidental. Preliminary plans have been laid at Philadelphia for the formation of a powerful combine to control the street lighting business, now in the hands of private, companies, all over that part of the Catted States east of the Mississippi river. George W. Elgins is to l>e president of the companv, which wll have a capital of $12,000,000. BaldwinsvHle. N. Y’., was visited by a disastrous fire. The fire started in the plant of the Kenyon Paper Company and spread rapidly to a building occupied by the New Process Kawlmle Company, the stone mill of Hotaling & Co. and the building of Clark. Mercer & Co. The loss, estimated at SIIO,OOO, is nearly covered by insurance.