Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1899 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Jesse L. Davis, the negro song writer, is dead at New York. Frank I* Henry, a well-known New York banker, is dead, aged 40. Lawrence Godkin, editor of the New York Evening Post, has severed bis connection with that paper. Edward Fairchild Berkley of St. Louis, a Cornell student, was drowned in the canal at Genera, N. Y. Marconi’s wireless telegraphy was tested successfully between the warships New York and Massachusetts. Brig. Gen. Guy V. Henry, U. S. A., until recently governor general of Porto Itieo, died at New York, of pneumonia. Christopher C. Chew, 49 years old, a department store owner of Camden, N. J., committed suicide by shooting himself. At MUlbnry, Mass., the Aldrich satinet mill was burned, causing a loss of $50,000, and throwing 130 persons out of employment. Louis Lewensohn, a clothing manufacturer of New York, filed a petition in bankruptcy. Liabilities $105,802, assets $79,870. Ottmar Mergenthaler, the inventor of the Linotype typesetting machine, died at Baltimore of consumption. He was born in Germany on May 10, 1854. Run down by the Savannah line steamer City of Augusta, the Pennsylvania ferryboat Chicago was cut in two iu the North river. How many are lost is not known.

The Liberty silk mill in West Fiftyseventh street, New York, was completely tied up by the strike of employes. Of 510 employes, but one, a woman, was at work. The strike was conducted in an orderly manner. In Philadelphia, the triaugular block bounded by Cana! and Second streets and Germantown avenue was almost entirely destroyed by lire, entailing a loss of more than $150,000, on which there is a partial insurance. A surprise in the shape of $35,000 has come to John A. Schaefer, a New York bartender. A letter came to him from Berlin stating that his uncle, Hermann Schaefer, had died and left a will making him his sole heir. The engagement of Admiral Dewey to Mrs. W. B. Hazen, widow of Gen. Ilazen, formerly chief of the signal corps, and sister of John R. Mclx*an, Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio, is officially announced. Dwight Townsend died suddenly at his home in New York, aged 73 years. Nearly forty years ago he founded, with Frederick C. Ilaveirieyer, the famous sugar refining firm of Havemeyer, Townsend & Co., now Havemeyer & Elder.