Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1899 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Brooklyn su cant girts ha vs formed a Yale asks $2,000,000 for her bi-centen-nial in 1901. William C. Wright of Toronto is dead at Chatham. X. Y. Prof. John R. Sweney, the composer, died at his home in Chester. Pa., aged 62 yean. » Thomas Malloy, secretary and treasurer 9f the Onondaga Coarse Salt Association, Syracuse. N. Y„ is dead. Mooes W. Dodd, founder of the publishing house of Dodd. Mead A Co., died at New York. He was 86 yean old. The Mechanics' Bank of New York has purchased the Fulton Bank of Brooklyn, N. Y„ which will go out of business. Rev. W. B. Thorp of Binghamton, N. Y., has received a unanimous call to the South Congregational Church of Chicago. Sir Henry Scholfield. K. 8., who lived in Jersey City, died from pernicious anaemia. He was 66 yean old. Sir Henry was at one time connected with the British diplomatic and consular service. The New York Tribune prints a story from Washington that Secretary Alger will resign when he returns from Cuba and will be succeeded by Gen. Russell Hastings, who was McKinley’s superior officer during the civil war. The first of the threatened glass workers* strikes took place at Elmer, N. J. Manager Bassett of the Elmer glass works refused to recognise the committee which called on him to present the demands of the men and the glass blowers quit work. A fire which originated in the Hershy building at Reading, Pa_ owned by Milton Hershy of Lancaster and occupied by the Lancaster Caramel Company, did over SIOO,OOO worth of damage. The Hershy building was also completely destroyed. Loss on building and contents. $75,000. Samuel M. Graham, well known throughout central Pennsylvania.' was instantly killed near Phillipsburg, Pa., while attempting to get a kodak pciture of a large stump which was being blown out of the ground with dynamite, a sliver striking him on the neck and nearly cutting his head from the body. Fire broke out in the five-story dwelling at 2 East Sixty-seventh street. New York, rhe home of Wallace Andrews, president of the New York Steam Heating Company. The fire spread very rapidly and when the firemen arrived in response to the first alarm they found the interior' of the houses all in Eleven lives were lost. About 3.000 cotton mill operatives are idle as the result of the many strikes in Rhode Island and more than 7,090 looms in the Pawtucket valley. 6,000 of them in the mills owned by Robert McKnight, are not in operation. The latest recruits to the strikers* ranks are the employes of the Natick mills. Agent Holt of the Slater cotton mills, in Slaterville, says that his mills will remain idle until the striking weavers accept the 6 per cent increase in wages, with a 10 per cent raise on some lines of work, as offered.