Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1899 — News of Minor Note. [ARTICLE]

News of Minor Note.

Texas floods damaged railroads $2,000,000. Essex Hotel, Bloomfield, N. J., was destroyed by fire. Loss >IOO,OOO. Nonantum block, Newton, Mass, destroyed by fire. Loss >20,000. Balnard (Mirer, 22, Newark, N, J., killed his wife by shooting, then escaped. Chas. Jones, New York porter, fell down'an air shaft and was killed. Dan L. Davis, Wayland, Ohio, while intoxicated, fell nnder a train and was killed.