Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1899 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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D. B. Murdock, a retired merchant of Pittsburg, is dead at Queenstown. The plant of the American Fisheries Company at Promised Land, L. 1., was destroyed by fire. It is said the machinery was worth nearly SIOO,OOO. The appraisal of the personal property of the late Roswell I*. Flower puts its value at $3,781,909. on the basis of what stocks were worth May 12 last. Fire destroyed the Ira S. Debro box factory aud the J. H. Chase flouring mills at Rochester, N. Y.. and also damaged adjoining property. The loss is SIOO,OOO. Frank Goodrich, 37 years old, a produce peddler of Weathersfield, shot and killed Mary Bcrrigan, 15 years old, at Hartford, Conn., and then killed himself. Congressman Daniel Ermentrout of Reading, Pa., is dead, aged (52 years. He represented the Ninth Pennsylvania district in Congress and was elected last November to his sixth term. Henry Braven nnd John Weber,-deaf mutes, blew open a safe in Buffalo, N. Y., with the intention of robbery. They made so much noise about the job that they were heard nnd captured. Fire nlmost destroyed the large building on East 128th street, New York, occupied by A. S. Nichols ns a factory for wood and granite mantels and grates. Damage to stock SBO,OOO, to building $20,000. The body of Mrs. Anthony, wife of Prof. A. W. Anthony of Bates College, was found in the Androscoggin river at Lewiston, Me. She left her home upon her bicycle. Her death is thought to be accidental. John Shepherd, a farmer, 50 years old, and Homer Robinson, 17 years old, were instantly killed by a freight train on the Lehigh Valley Railroad at Berkshire, N. V. The men were driving across the track with a load of lumber. Two men were killed and two injured in a collision on the Pittsburg, Virginia and Charleston Railroad near Baird station, Pa., between the pay traia aud a freight train. The accident was caused by a misunderstanding of orders. Massachusetts Prohibitionists have nominated the following State ticket: Governor, John W. Baer, Medford; Secretary of State, John B. Lewis, Reading; Treasurer, Herbert B. Griflin, Winthrop; Auditor, Franklin A. Palmer, Stockbridge. With a newspaper train carrying the New York Sunday papers and consisting of three baggage cars and a locomotive, the Lackawanna Railroad beat all records between New York and Buffalo for a train, covering the 410 miles in the actual running time of seven hours and twenty-three minutes. Mrs. Catharine Kennedy was burned to death in a fire which invaded a five-story tenement in Atlantic avenue, Brooklyn. Mrs. Kennedy’s sons, David and Peter, sustained painful injuries, as did also Thomas Freeman and August Schwnrtzner, who lived in the tenement. Mrs. Kennedy was 55 years old.