Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1899 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Louis Pullerson and Michael McDonald were put to death by electricity in Sing Sing prison. George Clarke, Fred Clarke and James Bowen of Bethel, Me., were drowned in Lake Umbagog. Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague died at Edgewood, her country home near Washington, in her fifty-ninth year. Franklin Trusdell, Philadelphia, died, aged 45. He was a newspaper man well known in this country and England. It Is announced at New York that the Rubber Goods Manufacturing Company has absorbed the Dunlop Rubber Tire Company. Smith & McNeill's hotel in New York was damaged $50,000 by fire. There was a panic among the guests and employes. One cook was terribly burned. Copper coins are worth more as metal than as coins. Two hundred and fifty tons of coins arrived at New York from India, to be melted for refining purposes. The death is announced, at the Manhattan State hospital for the insane in New York, of Lottie Fowler, who, twen-ty-five years ago, was a well-known spiritualistic medium. Sidney Hall, who recently died at Hartford, Conn., left the bulk of his estate, inventoried at $11,120, in trust for the purpose of combating the doctrine of the immortality of the soul, By the collapse of the steel frame of a new building being erected for the Westinghouse Electric Company at East Pittsburg, Pa., Charles Fister of Kingston, Md„ was killed and five men injured. Charles Richards of Chicago, who is visiting Brooksville, Vt., was struck by a flyer on the Rutland road. He fell fifty feet, was badly cut and bruised, but his injuries an: not thought to be serious. Private Albert McVeigh of Charleston, W. Va., Company G, Twenty-seventh regiment, was killed and Private Gould of the same regiment was fatally injured at Camp Meade, Pa., while alighting from a freight train. Uriah Fonts of Cleveland died at the home of his son in Peekskill, N. Y., as a result of an internal fracture of the skull received by falling downstairs. Mr. Fonts had a wide acquaintance with politicians and politics in Ohio and adjoining States. A trolley car, loaded with eighty passengers, mostly women and children, was held up by four highwaymen in Brooklyn. The conductor was beaten nearly to death and robbed of all the money in his possession. The robbers were captured. William Dolan and Jacob Shester, 16-year-old boys, died at Fall River, Mass., from injuries received in the Algonquin mill. They Were piling clothing in a dryer when a valve admitting steam was accidentally tinned on. The boys were almost naked and escape was impossible. Inspectors of the Board of Health nt New York seized and destroyed 900,000 pounds of fruit and vegetables unfit for human consumption. One seizure was 175,000 pounds of bananas being unloaded from a steamer in North river. Another was of 20,000 pounds of watermelons. Erie passenger train No. 7, west bound, crashed into a freight express which had been derailed a mile east utf Laekawaxen, Pa., and was wrecked. Four cars, including two sleepers, were burned. Two persons were killed and twenty-one injured. The wreck was caused by a landslide. Twenty persons were injured in a wreck on the Pittsburg and Western Railroad at Herr’s station, Pa. None of the injured is likely to die, but several are badly hurt. The smoker and middle coach of the accommodation train, which were crowded to the limit, were smashed •to splinters.