Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1899 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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The Republican State convention at Baltimore, <Md.. nominated Lioyd Lowndes for Governor. The Garden City Hotel at Garden City, L. 1., owned by the A. T. Stewart estate, was burned. Loss $155,000. Charles Y. Wheeler, president of the Firth Sterling Steel Company of Pittsburg. died at New York, aged 5(1 years. A petition in bankruptcy has been filed by Lewis M. Hornthai at New York, dealer in clothing, with liabilities of $343.233. At Buffalo. N. Y., John Collins, a sailor, 35 years old. was killed by John Brewster, a painter, in n tight in a restaurant. Janies J. Dailey of Philadelphia died of apoplexy, aged 55 years. He was foreman of the composing room of the Public Ledger. Rear Admiral Henry F. Picking, commandant of the Charlestown navy yard, dropped dead at Boston. lie was 59 years old. The Cumberland Glass Company at Bridgeton, N. J.. has come to terms with the union and will unionize the big bottle factories. The Rev. James G. Caldwell, a wellknown Presbyterian minister of Philadelphia. was instantly killed in a runaway accident. Janies B. Eustis of New York, formerly of New Orleans. ex-L'uited States Senator and ambassador to France, died at Newport, it. 1., of pneumonia. In Philadelphia, Cramp's ship building yards haYe resumed operations. The 150 blacksmiths and machinists who struck on the day of the shut-down did not return to work. Richard B. Leech of Brooklyn, N. Y., died suddenly just as lie finished his addi •ess ut a banquet of the Forty-eighth New York volunteers at a Brighton Beach hotel. He was 54 years old. Five vessels were burned and a loss of $250,000 was entailed by a fire which destroyed one of the largest buildings of the Brooklyn Storage and Warehouse Company at pier 47, South Brooklyn, N. Y. Mabel Prindle. 10 years old, was chained by the neck to a pump in a yard at Watertown, N. Y. Her father, Charles Prindle. had taken this means to punish her for goiug away from the house to spend the forenoon with her aunt. A head-on collision on the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad tit Tiona, Pa., resulted in the death of one man and the injury of three. Engineer Gerlach failed to see a set target and crashed into another freight that was about to take a siding. The American Steel and Wire Company has purchased the Crown Point Iron Company’s plant at Crown Point, X, Y.* The company has also acquired the ownership of the long-established mining, shipping and furnace industry at Port Henry. During the bicycle races at Brockton, Mass.. John It. Dubois, in a five-mile tinpaced pursuit race, rode in world's record time, defeating Claude Hamilton of Lowell in four and a quarter miles—time, 11:1$. Dubois continued for a five-mile ' record, lowering the mark of 12:12, made by 11. Clark tit Denver, by live seconds.