Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1899 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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B. W. Schwab of the firm of Oelriehs ft Co, was thrown from a horse at Now York and killed. Louis Ingwerson of New York has been elected supreme commander of the supreme lodge, Knights of Pythias. Rev. Julius Ehrhart, a well-known Lutheran clergyman, is dead at bis home in East Orange, N. J.. aged 74 years. Thomas D. Sheridan, for over twentyfive years northern passenger agent of the Grand Trunk Railroad, died at Buffalo. New York Grand Army posts have refused to march in the Dewey day parade because they were given a place at the end of the line. A fall of rocks from the center of the Horseshoe Falls at Niagara has had the effect of restoring it to the shape from which it derived its name. Active work on the construction of the new $1,000,000 drydock for the Newport News, Va., Ship Building and Drydock Company has been begun. Private C. Oswald of the First infantry, who was transferred to Swinburne Island, New York, from the United States transport Buford, died of yellow fever. . Absalom Ketsler, a miserly farmer of Paw Paw, Md.; Albert Cross, bis hired man, and Anna Domati, a domestic, were murdered and burned in the house by robbers. Naval officers on board the new battleship Kearsarge on her run from Newport News to New York say she made 13V: knots an hour, with u screw revolution of from 90 to 110. By the explosion of inolteu metal at Sehoenberger’s steel works at Pittsburg, four meu were dangerously injured. The explosiou was caused by the overturning of a ladle of hot metal. Twenty people were injured, eight freight cars and two passenger coaches damaged, and two engines demolished in a head-on collision on the Allegheny Valley Railroad at Parker, Pa. A bronze bust of the late Gov. Horatio Seymour, presented to the Oneidn Historical Society by Dr. George L. Miller of Omaha, was unveiled in Utica, N. Y. Gov. Roosevelt delivered an addrets. Mrs. Horace Chenery, wife of a wealthy resident of Larchmont Manor, N. Y., either jumped or fell from a fourth-story window of the Hotel Majestic in New York, and was instantly killed. The Massachusetts Democratic convention nominated a State ticket headed by Robert Treat Paine, Jr., of Boston for Governor. George Fred Williams heads the State delegation to the national Democratic convention. Mrs. Mary Bridgens, an aunt of Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, was found drowned in a mill pond near Oyster Bay, L. L. with indications that she committed suicide. Since her husband died about a year ago she had become subject to melancholia.