Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1899 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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John W. Isham, the theatrical manager, has filed a petition In bankruptcy in New York. Liabilities $14,000. The discovery has been made that 2,000,000 silver dollars stored In the Philadelphia mint vaults have rusted from, a leak. ' Jesse M. Lee, proprietor of the Hotel Lincoln, Pittsburg, Pa., has filed a petition in bankruptcy. Liabilities $100,720, assets $58,815. The Maryland Steel Company shipped from New York on the steamer Falls of Dee 250 tons of steel rails for the Australian Government. Lawyer W. D. Zimmerman of Chicago has bronght suit at Buffalo against bis brother and a Buffalo doctor for conspiring to induce his wife to leave him. He asks $05,000 damages. Russell Sago has given $50,000 to the women’s hospital, which is about to erect a $400,000 building in New York. Mrs. Sage has long been interested in the hos pita). Charles W. Briggs, Rochester, N. Y.. died, aged 74. Ho was ex-Mayor of Richester and founder of Briggs Brothers & Co., one of the largest seed firms iu the United States. The Edwin S. Piper Company, dealers in dry goods. New York, have made an assignment. The statement shows assets $112,025. mostly in merchandise, and liabilities $77,405. William A. Jones, general freight agent of the Empire Fast Freight line, committed suicide in New York. Worry over his wife’s illness is believed to have influenced the action. The Massachusetts Supreme Court has rendered an opinion holding that passengers can recover damages for injuries to baggage from the last road over which their baggage came, A woman believed to be Della Walters, address unknown, jumped from the ferryboat Plainfield, of the Centrnl Railroad of New Jersey, into the North river, New York. She was rescued. Miss Agnes Sutter, a wealthy woman, 7ti years old, was burned to deuth in her home in Newburg, N. Y. It is believed her pet cat upset a lamp that was burning, thus setting the place on tire. In the Connecticut State Senate a bill to extend suffrage to women throughout the State was defeated by a vote of 12 to 9. This will settle, probably for some years, the question of woman suffrage in Connecticut. Fire of ntiknowiK. origin started in a building in Freeman street, Brooklyn, used by Veils Bros, as a planing mill, and spread rapidly until nearly an entire block was destroyed. The total loss is estimated at $350,000. Dr. Charles S. Murray, the young physician of Sewickley, Pa., who pleaded guilty to the charge of murdering his father’s colored butler, John C. Jenning, wns sentenced to four years iu the Western penitentiary.