Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1899 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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SXiiial&S The H. C. Frick Coke Company, which employs more than 12,000 men, £«s advanced wages from $ to 12% per cent. The-Lakeport Savings Bank, Laconia. N. H.. has suspended payment and will probably liquidate. There is $227,000 due to depositors. .. A friend of Princeton University, whose name has not been disclosed, has endowed a new chair to the Value of SIOO,OOO. to be called the professorship in politics. Sheridan Shook died at Red Hook. N. Y. He was 77 years old. For many years he was proprietor of the Union Square Theater and of the Morton House. New York. New York capitalists are planning to combine the principal mineral springs in Saratoga under one management hnd make that resort an American Carlsbad. The charter of the Amalgamated Copper Company, present issue of capital $75,000,000. with power of unlimited increase. was filed at Trenton. N. J. Marcus Daly is president, and among the directors gre William Rockefeller and R. P. Flower. , • John P. Itoss of Sharon, Mass., was shot and killed by bis wife, Mary E. Ross, in the course of a quarrel at their home. She says she acted in self-defense, as her band was choking her at the time. The pair had been married about a year and were middle-aged. Fire wiped ont a five-story brick building in Boston occupied by & number of manufacturing firms, causing a loss of SIOO,OOO. The ground floor was occupied by the Boston fire department for the storage of extra apparatus. The loss of this apparatus was almost complete. The Pittsburg Commercial Gazette is authority for a story that negotiations are on for the merging of the National Steel Company, capitalized at $50,000,000; the American Tin Plate Company. $5,00),000, and the American Steel Hoop Company, $33,000,000. into a single stock company. United States secret service men captured in Brooklyn, N. Y., a well-equipped private mint almost ready to turn out English shillings made of genuine silver and so perfectly like, those made in the mints of her British majesty that experts would have been unable to detect the counterfeit.