Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1899 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

Twgnty-five guests at a wedding la Middletown, Conn., were poisoned by eating Ice cream. Twenty persons were hurt in a rearend collision on the Long Island Railroad at Vander veer Park.

Gilbert Benning, 20 years old, and Abraham Hill, aged 13, were drowned from a rowboat in Buffalo harbor. The five-story cigar factory of Bernard Stahl & Go. on First avenue, New York, was destroyed by fire, with a loss of $120,000.

Five children, four girls and one boy, the children of farmers living in Easton, were drowned at Black Rock, Conn., while sea bathing. The American Bicycle Company, a union of many firms, with $40,000,000 capital, has been formed in New York. A G. Spalding of Chicago is president of the new company. The dry goods firm of Fahey, Schantz & Bullock of Rochester, N. Y., bus gone into voluntary dissolution. The nominal assets of the firm are placed at about $78,663, liabilities $192,154. In New York, Meyer and Bernard Hecht, who formerly composed the firm of Hecht Bros., importers of fancy goods, have filed separate petitions in bankruptcy. The firm’s liabilities are $129,629. John Pollock was shot and killed, William Thayer was seriously wounded and about eight men were hurt in a fight between the strikers at the collieries in West Pittston, Pa., and a repair gang. Henry Hofheimer, formerly of Henry Hofbeimer, Son & Co., wholesale dealers in boots and shoes nt Norfolk, Va., has filed at New York a petition in bankruptcy. Liabilities $430,804, nominal assets $21,000. Ex-United States Senator Warner Miller has resigned as secretary of the International Paper Company of NewYork, but continues to be a stockholder. He has been succeeded by E. W. Hyde, formerly assistant secretary.

What is said to be the largest packet freight carrier on the lakes was launched at Buffalo. The new boat, to be called the Buffalo, is 403% feet long, 58 feet beam and 28 feet deep. She was built for the Western Transit Company at a cost of $350,000. The American Match Machine Company has been incorporated at Trenton, N. J., with a capital of $1,000,000, for the purpose of building and equipping match factories throughout the country. The American is to fight the Diamond Match Company. J. W. Campbell of Marinette, Ohio, and J. S. Ford of Chicago have been bolding conferences in Binghamton, N. Y., with owners of five different chair factories in that section and negotiations have been completed preparatory to absorbing them into the trust. A boiler explosion at the Republic iron works on South Twenty-fourth street, Pittsburg, killed five men and seriously injured Seven others. Fire which broke out following the explosion added to the horror. The mill was partly wrecked and the entire plant was compelled to close down.