Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1899 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

' » Coal prices have been advanced from 25 to 35 cents a ton at New York. Fire in Auburn, N. Y., in the scythe manufacturing plant of David Wadsworth & Son, did $75,000 damage. At Norwich, Conn., Luther M. Kinney, a farmer, aged about 55, was found dead, buried in the snow near his home.

“Colinette,” a French historical comedy, was given a successful first production in this country by Julia Marlowe at the Broad Street Theater, Philadelphia. At Philadelphia, .Pa., the St. John Roman Catholic Church has been ruined by fire and water. , The parochial residence adjoining the church was destroyed. The Niagara Falls nnd Lewiston Railroad Company, otherwise known as the George road, has gone into the hands of a receiver. The company will be reorganized.

At Easton, Pa., Prof. Stephens, who has been on trial for a week pnst, charged with setting fire to Pardee Hull, Lafayette College, was found guilty, the jury being out only an hour. Albert Heysler, who murdered his wife nnd stepdaughter, died at his home in Burkettville, Me., from the effects of the paris green he had taken with suicidal intent. He never regained consciousness. Grief killed Alfred McVeigh ns he gazed nt the face of his dead mother resting in her coffin in the parlor of his home in Brooklyn, N. Y. lie pressed his lips to the cold forehead and fell upon the coffin dead.

The floating grain elevator Columbia, valued at $200,000, was burned to the water's edge and is now lying a total loss on the Hoboken, N. J., flats. She was

owned by the International Grain Elevating Company. Luther Chapin, founder of the senior order of United American Mechanics, died at his home in Philadelphia. He was 83 yenrs old. His organization, of the first lodge folio wed the native American riots in 1844. At New Brighton, Pa., the opera house block, together with Marshall’s dry goods store, Stuckey's drug store, Carr’s shoe store, the Daily News, Sehrupp's drug store and the National Guard armory, were burned. Loss $-85,000. While about a dozen firemen were at work in the ruins of the store of the Emerson Shoe Company in Philadelphia,, which was burned out, a mass of iron and stone crushed down from the upper floors, burying the men beneath it. Three of the firemen were killed. A dwelling house nt French Hun, thirtyfive miles east of Dubois, Pa., belonging to a woodsman named Carlson, was burned. Carlson was away. The injother had just time to grasp her baby nnd jump from a second-story window into the snow. She was then obliged to stand nnd witness the burning to death of her four other little ones, aged 12, 7, 5 and 2 years, respectively.