Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1899 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Robert Porterfield, a well-known shipping master, died in Brooklyn, aged 86 years. Col. William E. Sinn, the theatrical manager, is dead at Pittsfield, Mass. He was 65 years old. ' Jennie Worrell, twenty years ago a famous beauty and actress, was probably fatally burned by bprning grass on the Coney Island meadows. George Grnuers, aged 18, and Tony Rixes, aged 21, were struck by lightning at Baltimore and instantly killed while sheltering under a large tree. Shoe manufacturers effected a permanent national organization at Philadelphia and agreed upon a general advance in prices of 10 to 25 cents a pair. During a heavy electrical storm the flint glass works of John Murray & Co. at Philadelphia were struck by lightning and destroyed. The loss is estimated at $125,000. Rev. Walter Manning Barrows, D. D., of Greenwich, Conn., died at Mackinac Island, at the summer home of his brother, President John Henry Barrows of Oberlin College. A Johnstown, Pa., dispatch says a reduction of wages in the structural department of the Cambria Steel Company goes into effect at once, ranging between 70 and 80 per cent. Solomon Quinter of Reading, Pa., formerly a railroad employe, shot and instantly killed his wife, Annie, Aged 48 years, and Edward 11. Kitzmiller, aged 28, whom he found in her cowpauy. James Quinn, aged 60 years, a resident of Lookout, a suburb of Carbondale, Pa., was killed in a faction fight between his family and the Gallaghers. Spectators say that fully 200 combatants were in the melee. John B. Smith, formerly in the real estate and building business in New York, has filed a petition in bankruptcy, showing liabilities of $136,494, of which $92,708 is unsecured. His available assets are $28,307. Hazing at West Point has been abolished by Col. Albert L. Mills, whose gallantry at the.storming of San Juan heights, when he was a lieutenant of cavalry, cost him an eye and won him the superintendency of the military academy. While Henry Hahn, of New York, was riding his bicycle near Arrochar, S. 1., the wheel suddenly stopped and Hahn was forced to dismount. He looked at the rear wheel and saw that a black snake five feet long had become entangled in it. In East Middlebury, Vt., a man named Eastwood went to the home of his moth-er-in-law and shot his wife and her mother, killing both. He then drove to Middlebury, went to the residence of Frank Fenn, shot him through the heart, killing him instantly. David McDade, one of the best known aeronauts in the country, jumped from a burning balloon a half mile in the air in the presence of 1,200 people at Owego, N. Y. He landed in the river and was rescued with a few bruises and several burns.