Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1899 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Mrs. Martha Place was put to death in the electric ehair at Sing Sing, N. Y. Survivors of the Windsor Hotel horror at New York allege that the fire was started by robbers. Mrs. Emily Marie Fish, wife of Hamilton Fish of New York, died at Washington, of heart disease. Rev. Dr. Albert S. Gumbert, pastor of the Dudley Street Baptist Church, Boston, died suddenly, aged 46. Capt. William Everett died at Delaware City, Del., of pneumonia. He graduated from West Point in 1868. Reports come from New York of a prospective conference between sugar and coffee men to patch up a truce and end the present trade war. W. J. Fitzgerald, a clerk in the distributing department of the 1 ittsburg postofli< e since 1805, was arrested while steal.l:.: moneyed letters. An inventory of the person; I estate of Charles B. Wright, late pres . ■ nt of the Nor:hern Pacific Railroad, til: I in Philadelphia. places its value at $3,1)50,921.56. Fire destroyed the five-story building occupied by A, J. Hague & Co., 354 Broadway, New York, and Elliott & Co., next door. Both firms were importers. The loss is several hundred thousand dollars. Mrs. Anna Hays Byers, widow of Eben M. Byers, the Pittsburg millionaire manufacturer, whose last sickness and the events connected with it a few’ years ago caused such a sensation throughout the country, has been adjudged a lunatic. Robert M. Floyd, the 19-year-old son of Robert Floyd, general superintendent of the Cunard Steamship Company’s offices in New York, committed suicide. The suicide is absolutely without a known causp. The lad failed to leave any word. The southwestern limited on the Lake Shore road was w recked at West Seneca, N. Y.. by an ice-clogged switch. Engineer Henry 8. Shattuck was killed and Brakeman George W. Roberts was severely injured. While the passengers were roughly shaken up, none was injured. A new satellite of the planet Saturn lias been discovered by Prof. William H. Pickering at the Harvard observatory. This satellite is three and a half times as distant from Saturn as Lapetus, the outermost satellite hitherto known. The period is about seventeen months and the magnitude 13%. Merrill & Soule and the Loomis-Allen Company, large manufacturers of canned good# at Syracuse, N. Y., have been approached by outside parties interested in the same line of business with a proposition to form a trust, capitalized at $20,000,000. Amalgamation is expected to take place June 1.