Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1899 — EASTERN [ARTICLE]

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.Fire in the five-story building art 420 West Broadway, New York, diffWM,000 damage. Mrs. Mary Hine died in Ithaca, 5L "Y. The records show that she was baptized in England in 1789. Twenty New York banks are baekinn® syndicate which is trying to secure control of the tobacco output of Cuba. Gen. Russell Hastings of Northampton, Mass., has been chosen for appoiutmeiit as director of the bureau of American (republics. A bid of $34,000 for a seat on the New York Stock Exchange was made the other day. This is SSOO less than the record price, made in 1881. Philadelphia Democrats nonunated Dr. W. Horace Hoskins for Mayor, Frank It. Shattuck for city solicitor and John A. Thornton for magistrate. Charles Frohman has secured thel>yrie Theater in New York for a term five years. This is the fifth New York thuattir acquired by Charles Frohman. At Olean. N. Y., a still burst at the Standard Oil refinery, throwing burning oil over the adjoining works and causing a fire that caused $75,000 loss. George W. E. Ayres of Philadelphia shot and killed his wife Mary, seriously wounded John J. Wilson, who boarded with Mrs. Ayres, and then committed suicide. A reduction of C per cent in wages'has been ordered at the St. Stephen cotton mills at Calais, Me. The carders, who refuse to accept the cut-down, have struck. The mills, it is said, will the able to run with one-third the usual number eff carders. The Atlantic Transport Line steanHir Menominee, which arrived at New York from London, brought to port Captain Honeyman and twenty-two members of the crew of the British tramp steamer Glendower, which was abandoned at -sea in a sinking condition. On account of a threatened strike of the carpenter force at the Honeyln’mik colliery of the Lehigh and Wilkes-tßarre Coal Company, Hazleton, Pa., because <if a wage disagreement, all the works at Audenried and Honeybrook were abut down, throwing 3,500 men out of employment. Jennie Joyce, 7 years old, was killed, and her brother Thomas, aged 3 years, was injured in a coasting accident at Scranton, Pa. Their sled ran into a trolley car. The girl's head was crushed she- ' yond recognition and her body was thurriidy mutilated. One of the boy’s legs was broken. Cornell's president. Dr. J. ’G. Bhermun, who is a member of the Philippine commission. delivered a farewell address to the students and the members of the (faculty. His leave of absence extends to the beginning of the next college year. The commission, he said, will arrive home from the Philippines next fall.