Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1899 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

Ex-Judge Henry Hilton of New York died at Woodlawn Park, his Saratoga country seat.

Yale is to receive $75,000 from the late Dr. Charles J. Stille at the University of Pennsylvania, to be devoted to the pollsuit of political economy.

Albert Golden of Greenwich Point and Furman Hicks, 40 years old, of Hempstead, were drowned while sailing in Hempstead bay. Long Island. St. Anne's convent at Sparkill, N. Y„ was destroyed by fire, and a number of persons, mostly children, were hurtled to death. There were upward of 500■ occupants in the building when the tire broke out.

Concord. N. H.. was shaken by an earthquake. The disturbance appeared to pass from southeast to northwest and was of several seconds’ duration end of sufficient violence to awaken people from a sound sleep. The wedding of Miss Julia Dent Grunt, daughter of Gen. and Mrs. Frederick D. Grant, to Prim e M ichael Calacuzeno of Russia is aniiouneed to occtfr Saints’ Memorial chapel at Newport on Monday. Sept. 25.

After riding a bicycle 1.200 miles to attend the national encampment of the Grand Army Of the Republic mid to meet old comrades of the civil war. Jas. A. Rappe. aged 84. years, of Marinette, Wis.. hie arrived in Philadelphia. Clayton C. Mason, a nephew of Senator Mason of Illinois, died at Washington from tin overdose of morphine taken hypodermically, presumably to ease pain due to kidney trouble from which he had suffered for some time. Mr. Mason was an employe at the inpitol. Juanita Teressette Terry, aged 13 years, who was killed with her half-sis-ter and nephew by a train at Seabright, N. J., was the only daughter of the late Juan Pedro Terry, the Cuban 'millionaire. and would have inherited Lietween $6,000,(100 and $7,000,000 from his estate.

The American Automobile Company has been organized in New York City, to control the manufacture and operation of all the automobiles and motors in which kerosene or gasoline is used, not only in this country, but in France, Germany and other countries in continental Eu rope. Carl Trenk halts.' aged 40. and his wife, while at work in their bakeshop at New Milford, Conn., were shot by Trenkhaus’ brother Edward, aged 55. Mrs. Treukhaus was killed instantly. The murderer was pursued, and when be was about to be taken he turned about and sent a bullet through his own temple.