Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1899 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Thuidm C. Search of Philadelphia has been re-elected president of the National ft marlatinn of Manufacturers. It in announced that the Federal Steel Company of Chicago has purchased the Puritan coke works, located at Latrobe, Pa. The Philadelphia North American has been sold to a syndicate represented by R. E. Dorr of the N>w York Mail and ExThe New York World says that the time fixed for the wedding of William K. Vanderbilt, Jr., and Miss Virginia Fair ia Tuesday. April 4. The carpet factory of William Judge & Bros., Front street and Columbus avenue, Philadelphia, was gutted by fire. Loss estimated at SIOO,OOO, covered by insurance. Charles M t-Lean, who soys he Is the “healer'* known as Schlatter all over the West until bis disappearance and reported death in New Mexico in 1897, is now in Brooklyn. X. Y. Close competition in business and inability *o collect money due him from customers caused August Branding, a retail oil dealer of Carnegie, Pa., to commit suicide on his child’s grave. Louis J. Snore, who stole $20,000 from his employers in New York in order that he might surround bis dying wife with luxuries, has l»een sentenced to seven years in Sing Sing prison. Disabled by an accident to her steering gear during a trip up the sound, the steam ranalboat J. C. Austin of New York ran on the rocks off Norwalk, Conn., and sank. Fire persons lost their lives.Theodore Kirsehner, aged <SO years, shot anti instantly killed his wife Paulina, aged 45 years, in their house at Newtonville, N. Y„ by the careless handling of a gun, whirb was accidentally discharged.

At a meeting of the directors of the Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad in Boston the first dividend since 1893 was declared. It is of 1 per cent on the preferred stock. The net earnings for 1898 were about $140,000. - A gang of tr/enty'-six track repair men were working on the railroad at the western opening of the Galiitzin tunnel, near Altoona, Pa., when they were struck by a train. One man was Instantly killed, one died in the Altoona hospital and sixteen were seriously injured. While at work on one of the boilers of the cruiser New York, in dry dock at the Brooklyn navy yard, six men were scalded through the unexpected turning on of steam in the boiler. One of the men, Fireman John Shea, is perhaps fatally injured. The others are expected to recover. The curfew bell of Vineland, N. J., is ■ steam whistle. It blew for the first time at 9 o'clock the other night, nine consecutive times. The curfew law was not observed. Hundreds of children who ordinarily would have been in bed at that hour thronged the streets to laugh at the whistle. They were not arrested.