Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1899 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Horace Wall, the actor, committed enidde at New York. Dr. James 0. Murray, dean of Princeton University, is dead. Mrs. Anne Hayes Alexander died at West Charlton, N. Y., aged 101 years. It is reported in Newark, N. J., that manufacturers of fertilizers are about to effect a combination. Sirs. Rachel Esterbrook, widow of the celebrated penmaker, is dead at her home in Plainfield, N. J., aged 87 years. Harrison Valley, Pa., lost almost its entire business portion by fire. The loss is 540,000, with much less insurance. John Butler, said to have been the oldest bachelor in the United States, is dead in Huntington, L. 1., in his 101st year. At Silver Creek, N. Y., August Heines’ bank made an assignment to H. W. Allen. The liabilities are about SIOO,OOO. A desperate attempt was made to fire the Lafayette Hotel, the largest hotel in Plii adelpbia, by thieves for the sake of plunder. A. tides of Incorporation of the American Beet Sugar Company, with a capital of $20,000,000, have been filed at Trenton, N. J. Patrick Hassett, was beaten over the head with an Iron bnr by Mrs. Thomas Cary and killed at Worcester, Mass. Mrs. Cary was insane, Mrs. Newell Dwight Hillis, wife of the new pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, underwent an operation for acute appendicitis at Philadelphia the other day. At Zanesville, William G. Dailey of Broekport, fi. Y., traveling salesman for an Eastern piano firm, after losing SI,OOO at gambling while drunk, Jmrrowed a kuife from the keeper of the gambling bouse and slashed hiß throat in an ugly manner. Frederick T. Clark of McKeesport, Pa., shot and fatally wounded his wife, who had refused to live with him. and then killed himself. The shooting took place nt the home of Mrs. Clark’s parents, where Clark endeavored to kill his moth-er-in-law. Every employe of the Buffalo smelting works, a branch of the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company, has received an envelope containing a bonus of 10 per cent of the wages earned during the last year. The gift to the employes is in lieu of an increase In wages. The window glass factories of D. O. Cunningham, Cunningham & Co., limited, and Phillips & C 6., nt Pittsburg, are entirely closed down by the strike of eighty leertender and shove boys for an advance of 10 per cent. The strike involves about 1,500 men and boj-s. The boiler of a locomotive drawing a train of empty coal ears on the Philadelphia and Rending Railway explotled nine miles north of Reading, Pa. Oscar Leisy, a brakemnn, was killed and Lyman Emerich, fireman, and George D. Zimmerman. engineer, were injured. Fire started in the Northern Hotel at Buffalo, but was under control iu twenty minutes. There were about a dozen persons in the building, all of whom were rescued without serious injury. 'Several of them were slightly hurt by jumping. The loss will not exceed $5,000.