Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1899 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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The National Baking Company’s threestory building in Rochester, N. Y, was burned. Loss about >IOO,OOO. Rev. Dr. Charles A. Briggs has been ordained a priest of the Protestant Episcopal Church by Bishop Potter of New York, despite much opposition. The large six-story Kennard business Mock in Manchester, N. H, was badly damaged by fire, with a loss to the owners and occupants of about >IOO,OOO. The body of Dr. Robert 8. Tracy of New York was found in Lake Flower, N. Y. Dr. Tracy disappeared over a month ago from a sanitarium at Saranac Lake. The bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Tlneknall were found in their rooms in Auburn, N. Y. The man was dead, without a mark on him; the woman bad her bead battered in. The Hotel Victory at Pnt-in-Bay was taken from the sheriff’s hands and sold to C. W. and J. W. Ryan of Toledo, Oh>, The Victory is the largest summer hotel in the world and is rained at >300,000. David Henderson, theatrical manage?/ formerly of Chicago, has filed a petition in bankruptcy in New York. The total liabilities are >130,364, of which >08,510 is unsecured and >31.854 partly secured. Ex-Gov. Roswell P. Flower of New York died at his club house at Eastport, L. I. The immediate cause of his death was heart failure superinduced by acute indigestion. He was ill for only a few hours. A construction train on the Pittsburg and Western Railroad went through a trestle near Newcastle, Pa., killing four men and injuring a number of others. The train went over a 70-foot trestle into Spangler's ran. A crowd of several hundred students at Princeton, N. J, attempted to break up a street parade by Pawnee Bill’s Wild West show, and a riot ensued, ip which several persons on both sides were badly hurt. No one was killed. Prof. Wiliiam H. Brewer of the Yale Sheffield Scientific School will leave the work of his department to become one of a party of twenty who will go to Alaska for the purpose of research. The expedition will return in August, 1900. Fred Simonds, an employe of the Erie, Pa, fire department, walked into A. Spinner's hardware store and asked to be shown a revolver and some cartridges. Loading the weapon, he placed it to his bead, pulled the trigger and killed himself. The Southwestern special was run into in the New York Central depot at Utica, N. Y, by an express train. A Wagner ear and the engine and one car of the express train were derailed and burned in the depot. Harry Neal of Buffalo was badly burned. John H. Duke, Benjamin McMahon and John C. E. Chambers, who do a business in handkerchiefs under the firm name of Duke, McMahon & Co. in New York, and John 11. Dnke & Co. in Belfast, Ireland, hare assigned for the benefit of creditors to Thomas Young. George D. Scott, for the past two years manager of the Tarrytown estate of John D. Rockefeller, committed suicide at Tarrytown. He shot himself over the right car with a revolver, and the bullet passed through bis head, coming out at the top. Death was almost instantaneous. Three men who were playing cards in a freight ear at Baltimore set it on fire, and one of them, Clarence Kepler, was burned to death. William Alders, another of the trio, was badly burned. The flames spread to the cotton warehouse of the Mount Vernon cotton duck mills, destroyed the building and caused >50,000 damage. When Thomas J. Havemeyer of New York, brother of 11. C. Havemeyer, head of the sugar trust, and one of the richest of the family, died a few weeks ago, he was supposed to have been a bachelor. Later was made the discovery that he had been secretly married to his childhood’s sweetheart. Miss Anna Wright. Suit has now been begun by the widow for a settlement of the estate and her dower right.