Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1899 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Brooklyn nary yard from apoplexy, ■■rt CO year*. Jalia Krrtya Capen Woodford of Brooklyn. wife of the former minister to Spain, fri aged 50 yean. Ike Keystone paper min, Philadelphia, waa destroyed by fin. Lom fSO.OOO, partly mend by insurance. Ike foorotory building of the Phoenix Paint aad Break Company in Philadelphia was destroyed by fire. Loss $60,000. Gen. E. F. Wiles, colonel of the Seven-ty-eighth regiment, Ohio volunteers, during the civil war, died at Windsor, N. Y„ aged 13 yean.

At Trenton, Jt. J, the Standard Oil Cnmpaay filed a certificate the Secretary of State increasing its capital stock from fUXtMMMO to $110,000,000.

Jadge S. L. Mestrezat of Fayette County was Dominated for Supreme Court Jadge by the Pennsylvania Democratic naralioi on the twenty-eighth ballot

Charles E. Littlefield, Republican, has been elected to Congress to succeed the htit'Xrf'ioa Dingley of Maine, defeating John Scott of Bath by an overwhelming

W. C. Johnson, acting commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, has called a meeting of the pension committee of that body in Washington, D. C„ on Tuesday, July 11.

The death is announced of Simon Fry, grand commander of the Aneient Accepted Scottish Rite for the United States. He sacrum bed to an operation for appendwitis at a New York hospital. He was 46 years oU.

It was officially announced that the option held by Drexel, Morgan & Co. on sSvIOOO shares of Lehigh Valley Railroad Stock had been exercised. The price paid ts** $25 a share for 117.300 and $27.50 for the remainder.

Liquid steam, a discovery made in the development of the new motive power, compressed air, has had a public semi-offi-cial test oa the Putnam division of the New York Central Railroad, and is declared to be a success.

George Beauregard Barrow, the principal in the kidnaping of Marion Clark, the infant daughter of Arthur Clark of New York, has been sentenced to fourteen yean and ten months’ imprisonment. Cattie Jones; who pleaded guilty, was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment.

A sane of masked robbers, probtbly ten ia aamber. early the other moraine raided the receiving office of the Fairmoant Park Transportation Company at Belmont in Fair—nt Park, Philadelphia, and, after holding ap the receiver and fire other employes of the railway, blew open the safe, ■Bearing 94,000, the company’s receipts tar twe days.