Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1899 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis of Central Church has been formally called to the pulpit of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn. Dr. Chauncey M. Depew was unanimously nominated for United States Senator by the representatives of the New York Legislature. Mrs. Emily J. Mosely, who would have been 102 years old had she lived until April, died at the Home for the Homeless in Utica, N. Y. Arthur Henry Dundon, vice-president of the normal college and one of the bestknown educators in the country, died at New York, aged G 7 years. Abraham W< and Frederick W. Leggett, comjtosing the firm of A. W. & F. W. Leggett, New York, cheese commission merchants, have filed a petition in bankruptcy. Captain A. Wilson Norris, assistant adjutant general on the staff of Gen. I. I*. S. Gobin, commander of the Third brigade, stationed at Augusta, Gs., died suddenly at the Harrisburg, Pa., Club. The Hartwell & Richards Company, jobbers of dry and fancy goods in Providence, 11, 1., has gone into the hands of trustees. Assets are $300,000; liabilities, $130,000, and all claims, it is stak'd, will be paid in full. In a collision between a freight train and a locomotive on the Philadelphia and Reading Railway at Glenside. Pa., several cars were overturned, and John Ruth, brakeman, was pinioned under the timbers and burned to death. Wilton P. Marchbauk, a stenographer, was killed in a fight with Michael McGowan, a conductor on a Thirty-fourth street cross-town horse car in New York. Witnesses declare the conductor kicked trim in the jaw, breaking his neck. The conductor says he pushed the man off and he fell, injuring himself. An attempt was made to burn Jerry Flynn’s hotel, a noted hostelry, at Ontario, Beach. N. Y. A few hours later John Curran, a one-armed constable of the village, was art-ested on the charge of setting fire to the building. Curran admitted starting the fire. Revenge is said to have been Curran’s motive. Judge Arnold in the common pleas court at Philadelphia, in a suit brought to determine whether the shipper or the Adams Express Company should pay for the war revenue stamp to be attached to bills of lading for express packages, decided in favor of the express company and that the shipper must pay for the stamp, Brig. Gen. J. W. Clous, secretary of the Cuban evacuation commission, has arrived in New York from Havana. He says that up to Jan. 1, 71,810 Spaniards had left the island. Seventeen thousand Spanish soldiers remain in Matanzas and 28,000 in Cienfuegos. These will probably all be out of the island by Feb. 15. One of the first actions of the new wire trust after securing possession of the New Castle, Pa., rod mill was to notify the men of a reduction in wages averaging about 10 per cent. The men were also notified that unless the reduction is accepted the rod mill as well as the wire and nail mills will be closed down indefinitely, and the mills nt Beaver Falls, where the men have been receiving less wages than paid in New Castle, will be operated. In Pittsburg the trust has closed the big Oliver mills. The 2,000 employes may be asked to accept a reduction before the plant resumes.