Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1899 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Forest fires have been burning near Saranac Lake, N. Y. Upward of 2,000 acres were in flames. Sir Thomas Lipton’s English racing yacht, the Shamrock, has arrived at New York after a quick voyage, and is anchored in the harbor. A serious break occurred in the Erie canal at Syracuse, N. Y- The under part of the partition between the two sections of Lock 49 was washed away. Edward F. Rich of Schenevus, N. Y., was shot and killed by William J. Haugh, his brother-in-law, at Paulsboro, Pa., while visiting his sister, Haugh's wife. Hugh Grosvenor Curran, formerly in business in Denver as the Berlin Cloak Company, filed a petition in bankruptcy in New York. Liabilities $74,352; no assets. While driving with his family through Hblmesburg. a suburb of Philadelphia, Frank Radcliffe was accidentally killed by a bullet tired by Paul Spiel, who was practicing. Mount Lookout breaker at Wyoming, Pa., operated by the Temple Iron and Coal Company, was burned. The origin of the lire is unknown. The loss is about $100,000; insured. Tlie four-masted schooner Augustus Palmer, Captain Haskell, from Newport News io Bangor, Me., went ashore and sank in four fathoms near Thimble light, near Norfolk, Va. Her crew was saved. Elder Jensen of the Mormon Church spoke for two hours on the common of Boston and later declared that it was none of the business of the country or of Congress how many wives a Mormon had. The wedding of Miss Julia Dent Grant of Chicago to Prince Cahtacuzene, it is formally announced, will take place Sept. 25. The nuptials will take place at Newport. Bishop Henry C. Potter will officiate. A head-on collision between two trolley cars occurred on the Norristown, Chestnut Hill and Roxborojigh Railway, in Plymouth township. Pa. Thirty persons were injured, two men and a wornna probably fatally. Armistead Taylor and John Alfred Brown were banged at Rockville, Md. Taylor and Brown robbed and murdered Lauis Rosenstein and his wife, Dora, on the morning of May 13, 1899, at the little town of Slidell. Md. William Robbins, instructor of manual training in the schools of Passaic, N. J., shot and instantly killed his brother, Ralph Robbins, aged 16. while hunting In the Adirondacks. He mistook the red sweater worn by Ralph for a deer. Edwin Gould’s Continental Match plant at Passaic, N. J., valued nt $500,600, closed for good. Over 500 employes, including 300 girls, are thrown out of employment. Some weeks ago Gould sold the plant to the Diamond, Match Company for $1,000.000.