Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1899 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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rSkSSii TiJSMm* 5* ** W. Holt Apgar of New Jersey has toot elected supreme regent of the Royal Arcanum. John F. Baudoine, who hao as tocioura of $90,000 a year, has Mod a pttitisu hi bankruptcy at New York. At Harrisburg, Pa., Charles Johnson, second sergeant. Company M, Niuth immunes, accidentally shot and kflted Manself. Five hundred Baltimore saloons will gn out of business becaase the Inenmo have decided to discontinue the pmetiee of paying for licenses. The New York Senate has passed nnsnimously the biH appropriating 375,000 for the expenses of the celebration of the return of Admiral Dewey. The fertilizing plant of Walker. Meatman 4k Co., Pittsburg, was destroyed by fire. Considerable valaable machinery was destroyed. The loss was about SIOO.000. Ia a fight, between Italian and Polish laborers on the Central docks at Bagnio Louis Semlock, a Pole, wqs shot ia ihe back and Castigalia Calejero was cat oa the face. Nightingale's silk mill at Paterson, X. J., was destroyed by fire. The factory was a three-story frame structure aad contained 200 looms. The loss is estimated at 350.000. A cyclone passed over the southern portion of North Tonawaada, N. Y., aad adjacent country Monday afternoon. Two men were killed, houses were wrecked aad much other damage done. Another judgment, this one for $34367, the biggest yet, was entered against Roster, Bial & Co. of New York, music hall managers, in favor of the United Mates Mortgage and Trust Company. August Boeder's renovating factory at Newark, N. J., was nearly destroyed by fire. Loss $50,000. The widow of Chats. Norton, a former champion pugilist, was frightened by a fire, and she expired a few minutes later. Counsel for George Forzley 4k Co_ a banking and commercial house for the Syrian colony of New York, filed a petition in bankruptcy ia the United States District Court. The liabilities are estimated at SIO,OOO. Cartridge 4k Co.’s iron bed manufactory in Brooklyn caught fire aad was burned to the ground. The fire spread to a raw of tenement houses on Driggs avenue aad another on Graham avenue, and about 100 families fled in their night clothes. Conservative Yale has turned aside the traditions of two centuries and elected as president, to succeed Dr. Timothy Dwight, Prof. Arthur Twining Hadley of the academic department. Prof. Hadley is the first layman to be elected to that position. James Williams of Pittsburg, Fa_, shot and killed Harry Jones, and then committed suicide by jumping iato the Moaoasahela river. Williams objected to Jones' attentions to his daughter, and this is sopposed to have been the motive for the killing. One man was instantly killed aad another so badly injured that he died soon after by the explosion of a steam drying cylinder in the dyeing and finishing mill of James Martin A Co. at Philadelphia. Three others were injured, one probably fatally.