Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1899 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Maryland Democrats nominated John Walter Smith of Worcester County for Governor. , i The works of the Glens Falls, N. Y., Port hi nd Cement Company were burned, i causing a loss of $250,000. Col. Azof Smith Marvin, for many i years president of the Marvin Safe Com- [ pany, is dead at uis home in Brooklyn, aged 74 years. Herman Hauser, a former Chicago theatrical man, jumped from the Brooklyn bridge and escaped, it is believed, without serious injury. Joseph Alford Smith. Philadelphia, Pa., died at the Forrest Home Wednesday, aged 80 years. He was dean of the colony of actors and actresses at the institution. .> Charles F. Autenrieth, a wealthy retired Philadelphia banker, was found dead in a bath tub in his house. He had shot himself. No motive Is known for the suicide. Davis Dalton, a swimming instructor, was drowned near Hog Island, N. Y., while giving an exhibition of swimming. Death was due to apoplexy. The body was recovered. The power house and ear sheds of the North Jersey Railway Company in Newark. N. J.. were destroyed by tire, causing a loss of $300,000. Nearly eighty cars were destroyed. Frederick W. Pope, the 14-year-old son of Charles A. Pope of Columbus, N. J., ia paralyzed as the result of an application of cocaine by a" dentist. He has also lost the power of speech. By an explosion of gas the art galleries of Durand Ar Ruel, in the old Lorillard mansion. Now Yovk, were wrecked. Paintings valued -at many thousands of dollars were damaged or burned. By the capsizing of a row boat on the Patapseo river, near Baltimore, the following persons were drowned: Andrew Deems, William J. Lyman. James Walsh, E«1 ward Garry and Mrs. Hoover. Two ears collided cn the Sea View Electric road between Wickford and Narragansett Pier, 11. I. Merritt L. Abbey. a motorman, was killed. Of the forty passengers only one was injured. Benj. 11. Snell, a pension office employe. 45 years of nge, killed Liza Weissenberger, a 13-year-old girl, in Washington, D. C. He had become infatuated with her and she scorned his attentions.

A trolley car containing upward of forty persons went over a trestle fiftj* feet high at Peck's mill stream, about five miles from Bridgeport, Conn. Thir-ty-five persons were killed and twelve injured. The tenth annual convention of the Young People's Christian Union was closed in Pittsburg with a missionary rally and a reminiscent meeting. It was announced that half of the $50,000 annual thank offerings had been raised. Charles Yager, aged 40 years, of Brandt, Pa., murdered his three small children by cutting their throats and then committed suicide by the same means. There seems to be no doubt that the father had gone insane during the night. Sigmund S. Albert, son of a prominent Hebrew merchant of Lancaster, Pa., has resigned from West Point military academy, having literally been driven from it by the persecution to which he was subjected by the cadets on account of his religious faith. New York Typographical Union, No. (i. has devoted all of its fund, estimated at S4O,tMA>. to support the union compositors who have struck in the Sun office. The printers walked out because they had learned that non-union printers were to be employed.