Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1899 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

Samuel Jacoby, a well-known banker and flour merchant, died at New Tork. William B. Smith, well known as the man who first.reflned petroleum, died*at Everett, Mass. Dr. Charles Smith of Atlantic City, N. J., who ciai.njip to be 123 years old, is about to weu a 45-year-old bride. The first of the series of races for tlic Anf&rffca’s cup was sailed in New York, the Columbia winning by ten minutes and eight seconds. The steamer W. P. Keteham ran down the little Schooner Typo in Lake Huron. The Typo was instantly sunk aud four of the crew were drowned. Owl’s Head Mountain House, a popular summer resort hotel on Lake Meinphramagog, owned by C. D. Watkins of New York, was burned. Loss $100,060. The Bridgeport Line steamer Nutmeg State was burned in Long Island sound, off Sands point, Long Island, aud ten persons were burned to death or drowned. The Traders’ National Bank of Baiti* more has decided to go into voluntary liquidation and practically dosed its doors. Decline iu the bank’s business is the cause.

The crew of the Holland submarine boat narrowly escaped death by asphyxiation at New York. One of the gas reservoirs leaked. The six men were taken out unconscious.

Fire destroyed the three-story frame building in Newton, L. 1., owned and occupied by the Equitable Silk Mills, and stock and machinery was damaged $30,000 nnd the building $15,000. Frederick George and his three little daughters, aged 0, 4 nnd 2 years, respectively, were instantly killed at Riverside, N. J., by a Pennsylvania express train. They were driviug across the track.

The Windsor Hotel at Hudson, N. Y., was destroyed by fire, and Wallace O. Hall, u traveling salesman for a Philadelphia publishing company, was suffocated. The property toss will exceed $50,000. Fire destroyed a large four-story warehouse iu Brooklyn, owued by the Bush Company, limited, and 8,000 bales of cotton stored iu it. Loss S3OO,(XX), principally on the cotton, which was well insured.

While addressing a socialist women’s meeting in u hall at New York, Mrs. Florentine Ciintius-Lange, a socialist agitator, was stricken with apoplexy and died in a few minutes. She was about 53 years old. Janies H. Eckels, president of the Commercial National Bank of Chicago and Comptroller of the Currency from 1893 to 1897, was run over by an express wagon on Fifth avenue, New York, ."fnd badly hurt. The firm of Shannon. Miller & Crane oif New York, manufacturers and importers of militnry goods, founded in 1820, has bee* placed in the hands of a receiver One of the partners has brought suit for dissolution. Lorenzo Dow died at his home iu Now York, aged 72 years. He was born in Paris. When the gold fever broke out in 1849 he went to the Pacific coast, and for several years he was engaged there in prospecting for and in operating mines. PractjegUy al|, the mills in New York Stute, nr-e now organized under the name of the American Association of Knit Underwoai' which has decided to’ifinkp a per cent advance in the pried Wfle cce underwear, which is the kind most generally worn, and in which line the competition heretofore has been the fiercest.