Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1899 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Robert G. Ingersoll died of apoplexy at his home, Dobbs Ferry, N. Y. The United States training ship Saratoga has arrived at Southampton. Paul Beartsch, 19 years old, was struck by lightning and instantly killed while playing baseball in Jersey City. The principal business block of Madalin, N. Y., was destroyed by an incendiary fire, with a loss of $50,000. About 2,500 New York clothing workers struck for higher wages, and it is said that 25,000 may be on strike within two weeks. William Wiesbusch died in the New York post-graduate hospital from poisoning resulting from a mosquito’s bite on the temple. Clement B. Sherwood. 34 years old, editor of the Rockland. Me., Star, was found dead in bed. Indications point to suicide by poisoning. Editor Charles Doty Elliott of the Pottsville, Pa., Republican died of heart disease. He was born in Taycheedah, Wis., in 1842. Mrs. Elizabeth McGowan of Buffalo was elected president of the Ladies' Catholic Benevolent Association at the Asbury Park convention. An explosion in the coal mine of the Redstone Coal Company, neur Brownsville, Pa., killed three num outright and entombed seventy others. Rose Coghlan. tin 1 actress, tiled a voluntary petition in bankruptcy at New York, under the name of Rosamond Marie Sullivan. Liabilities $2(1.83(1, assets $250. Ex-State Senator Gerald ('. Brown of Pennsylvania, a Democratic politician, grange leifurer and agricultural editor, was gored to death by a bull at York. Pa. Arthur and .fames Birney, young sons of Arthur Birney, district attorney of Washington, I». C.. were drowned off the Isle of Wight While sailing in Syupuxtaut bay. Former Alderman Alexander McMaster, vice-president of tin- I nion Bank, was killed at Buffalo by a runaway horse. He Was riding a bicycle at the time. In a boiler explosion at a sawmill in Wayne township. Pa.. Eli Whitehill. a son of the proprietor, was blown over 200 yards and killed, and his father, Zadoek Whitehill, is reported fatally hurt. A. G. Peck of Cohoes Falls, N. Y.. has bought the Muckross estate on the lakes of Killarney, Ireland, about which there has been so much talk. The price paid was £37.0*10. approximately $185.(100, The strike of the electrical workers of Washington, which has been in progress for tile past few weeks, has ended in a compromise, providing for an eight-hour day and time and a half for overtime. The Finlayson-Bonsfield Company, limited, of Grafton. Mass., has joined the thread combine and the property has been transferred to the trustees of the trust. The price, as shown by the revenue stamps upon the deed, was $227,000.