Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1899 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Jesse L. Davis, the negro song writer, is dead at New York. New York Central Railway will ©ay 12,000 new freight cal’s. New York Irishmen pledged half of the $20,000 needed to save Parnell homestead. CSreater New York has 470,717 voters, according to the registration just completed. A prominent New York graduate of Yale, it is reported, intends to give the university $2,000,000. William H. Appleton of the publishing house of D. Appleton & Co. died at his home at ltfverdale. X. Y., aged 85 years. William Grewer, formerly a wellknown caterer of Portland, Me., shot and killed Mrs. Jennie LeGrow. Grewer then killed himself. The upper stories of the large frame building of the American Card Company, in the business section of Lovell, Mass., were, burned. Loss $50,000. Henry Frohman, father of Daniel, Charles and Gustave Frohman, the theatrical managers, died at New York of heart failure, aged 72 years. At Philadelphia the jury in the Ing-ham-Newitt counterfeiting conspiracy trial brought in a verdict of guilty. A recommendation for mercy is made. The five-story building at 390 Broadway, New York, and its contents, the property of several firms, were destroyed by fire. The loss will exceed SIOO,OOO. Horace L. Hastings of Boston, editor and publisher of The Christian, the AutiInfidcl Library and of an unknown number of papers, books, tracts and pamphlets, died in Goshen of typhoid fever. F. Tennyson Neelv. the publisher of New York, tiled a voluntary petition m bankruptcy in the United States District Court. The total liabilities are placed at .$359,531 and the assets at $414,739. Lord Mayor Tallou of Dublin and John Redmond, M. I*., who are iu America soliciting funds for the Parneli monument, were received by the Mayor of New York, and also visited the navy, yard iu Brooklyn. . « The third and final race in the series for the yachting supremacy of the world was won by the Columbia, the American boat, defeating the Shamrock, the British challenger, by six minutes and thirty-four seconds.