Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1899 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

He Tillage of Foreatport, N. Y. f was destroyed by fire. j Aa explosion In a still of tbe Atlas oil refinery at Buffalo caused a loss of about 125,000. Captain Janies Bryant, who aided “Boss” Tweed to escape to Cuba, is dead at Now York. Plans for a gigantic silk trust, with headquarters in Paterson, X. are being discussed by the manufacturers. At Pittsburg, Pa., Mrs. Agues Nctmer, 34 years of age, and her 9-tjmnth-okl baby were fatally burned at their home. l)r. Robert C. Stewart was found dead in his room at Shippotisburge Pa., having been asphyxiated by Uliiniluating gas. Two dogs in the j t ooth were also found dead. Mrs Ethan Allen, wife of Col. Ethan Allen, grandson of the revolutionary hero, died suddenly during a pertovniiinre of ••Lohengrin” at New York, from heart failure. Jeremiah Pingley, of A- iatrn. Maine, an unde of the late Congressman D.ngley, is dead, agetl 77. lie '-.'as a Lanher and a member of the Diugley-i'osa Mime Company. A tire which caused a loss variously estimated from to $ 1d*..(.000. and which threatened to dcs' l wy an entire block, started in the bag fact cry of Walter A: Hell. New York. The factory building of the Manhattan Brass Company (iiN.-n ion; ou* Oestroyed by tiro,’Together with a targe quantity of valuable stock of finished materia! and machinery. The estimated loss is $250,000. The Delaware and Hudson depot. Sweeney's Hotel, the Saratoga Company's annex and Schaeffer's case, in Saratoga. N. Y„ were burned. James V. Snyder, a night watchman, burned to deal It. The loss is $(’>0.00(1. partly covered by insurance. , The United States Varnish Company is being organized under the laws of New Jersey with a capital of $ 15.000.000 pre•ferred and $18,000,(100 cotiunqfi stock. The new company will consolidate the varnish manufacturing interests of the eountry. The five-story building. 212, 21-1 and 210 New street, Philadelphia, occupied by a number of linns, burned. The heaviest losers were the Technic Electric Company. $20,000; Handler Manufacturing Company, tinware, $15,000; American Pearl Hutton Company. $ 10,000. Masey hall, one of the newest campus dormitories of Brown University. Providence, R. 1., was gutted by fire., The fire started in one of the student rooms and gained great headway, owing to frozen hydrants and dilttcullios encountered with a foqt of snow ami the mercury at zero. The damage is about $15,000.