Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1899 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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William Reid was hanged In Jersey (Sty for the murder of Andrew Henry in Hoboken on May 14,1898. At Buffalo, N. Y., the EUieott Square Bank has closed its doors. The bank had a capital of $300,000 and was organized in 1891, Thirty Americans, under Col. Ausburn, formerly of Roosevelt's rough riders, are serving in the srmy of Provisional President Reyes in Nicaragua. A rival for Croker’s automobile company has been incorporated in New Jersey aa the New York Electric Vehicle Company. The capital stock is $23,000,000. , Maj. George W. Sauer, totally blind, his wife and two daughters were carried down the fire escape from the fourth story of the Klondike Hotel in New York, in a fire panic. The Brook Iron Company has posted notice at its works at Birdsboro, l’a., of an increase of 23 tents a ton in tbe wages of pnddlers, to go into effect April 1. The new rate will be $2.50 a ton. Gov. Powers of Maine has decided to call a special election for Juuc 19 to choose a successor to the late Nelson Dingtey, Jr., as a member of Congress for the second district of Maine. The conference of the representatives of the cotton manufacturers and the labor unions at Fall River, Mass., resulted in the manufacturers agreeing to advance wages on April 3 at the rate of per cent. One person was killed and thirteen otlii era injured in a head-on collision between two Pennsylvania Railroad trains near the Forty-fourth street bridge, Philadelphia. The accident was due to an open switch. Because two tending boys cheered for President Hayes of the Glass Blowers’ i Union at Bridgeton, N. J., the Cumberi land glass works are closed and 1,000 men and boys are idle. The two boys were discharged for cheering and a strike , followed. John Krebs of St. Clair, Pa., employed at Silver Creek colliery, was very seriously injured by the premature discharge of a dynamite blast. Two of his fingers were blown off, both eyes put out and he sustained frightful contusions about the [face and body. Four of the crew of the HamburgAmerican liner Bulgaria have been landed at Baltimore. They were trying to I launch a boat from the disabled- steamer : during a storm, when it broke adrift and 1 they were picked np by the steamship I Victoria. Nothing is known of the fate of the Bulgaria.