Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1899 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Brooklyn servant girls bare fotmsd a onion. Eugene J. Swan, a New York promoter, has tiled a petition in bankruptcy, with liabilities of $10X538 and nominal assets of $13382. The big conibinatioa of all the coal interest* on the Monongahela river is an assured fact. The capital stock will be $30,000,000. John G. Shannon of Pittsburg. Pa- formerly United States District judge of Dakota, was seriously hurt in a runaway at San Diego. Cal. Gov. Powers of Maine has called a special election for June 19 to choose a Congressman from the second district to «ucceed the late Nelson Dinghy. The United States cruiser Raleigh, which was one of the ships of Dewey's fleet at Manila, arrived in New York harbor and was welcomed with great demonstrations. The focusing of the sun's rays by an electric light bulb set fire to a curtain in the home of John M. Sager in New York. His 3-year-old daughter Lily was burned by the blaze. W. C. Andrews, who perished in the tire which destroyed bis home at New York, by will provided for the establishment of a home for lhe education of girls at Willoughby. Ohio. Chancellar Henry M. MacCracken of the University of the City of New York made announcement of the receipt of gifts to the institution of nearly $300,000. He withheld the names of the donors. John A. Barnes, the former husband of the woman who is now the wife of John A. Magowan. former Mayor of Trenton. N. J., was secretly married Wednesday to Miss Anna Minch of Cleveland. Andrew Murray, who had been ejected from the fit. Elmo Hotel at Dubois, Paemptied the contents of an oil can on the floor of a rear room in the hotel and set fire to it. The fire was discovered and quickly extinguished. The Boston Museum, the oldest playhouse in Boston, was badly damaged by fire. The blaze started on the Tremont street side and is thought to have been caused by a careless smoker. The loss to ■ the museum is estimated at about SBO,OOO. Justice Williams at Watertown. N. Yhas dismissed the indictment against R. B. Molineux, charged with sending poison to Harry Cornish, on the ground that the grand jury received other than legal evidence. He directs that the case be sub- < mitted to a new grand jury. Miss Lizzie Fisher, a housemaid, was killed at Vineland, N. J„ by Charles C. Lamb, her employer, while his wife was at church. Lamb committed suicide. Neighbors think Lamb was madly in, love with the girl. He attacked her in the dining room, shooting her.