Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1899 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Film C. Alexander, editor of the Xew Tuck Mail and Express, died of Bright’. Francis P. Dewees died in Washington. He wss an assistant attorney general of the Uaited States from 1885 to 1883. Edward D. Schults of Xew York, a well-known theatrical manager, committed suicide at his room in the Hotel Victoria. at Pittsburg, by .booting. Four men were killed, two injured and aae had a narrow escape from death by a rush of dirt in the mine operated by Lawrence & Brown near Mahanoy Plane, Pa. Frederick Hardy, Jr., art student and son of Tennessee millionaire, found murdered in Xew York. Evidence of desperate straggle. Probably killed for his money. James J. Jeffries retained his title of heavyweight champion of the world after one of the hardest battles ever fought by big men in this country. He fought Sharkey In Xew York. Freeman Miltikeu Short, age 21 years, a junior in Bowdoin College, committed suicide at his parents’ home in Portland, Me. He returned to his home unexpectedly and refused to give any reason. At York, Pa., James W. Stine shot Mrs. Molly Mundis and then turned the weapon on himself with fatal effect. Both are married and the affair took place at the home of a sister of Mrs. Mundis. Maj. Henry Lee Iligginson of the class Of *65, who gave Soldiers’ field to Harvard University, has given $150,000 to be used for the erection and equipment of u building suitable for the uses of the Harvard University Club. The Pittsburg plants of the American Tinplate Company are preparing to shut down indefinitely. They will be idle, probably, after Xov. 15. and just when they will start up again, if ever, is a question in which some 700 workmen are much interested.

1.. Balioxian. a wealthy merchant of Smyrna. Turkey, nuil representative from Armenia at the international commerce congress, which was recently held in Philadelphia, was found dead in his room at the Hotel Bristol, .New York, presumably of apoplexy. In Boston, at a meeting of representatives of the majority of the largest concerns in the webbing and goring industries in America the work of the prclimim.ry organization of a national combination was perfected. The combination is capitalized at $12,000,000. Mrs. George llilson of Bridgeport, Conn., was officially notified that she is a legatee under the provisions of the will of the late Elisha Crowell of Bristol. England, who at his death left a fortune appraijpd at $30,000,000. Mrs. llilson, it is understood, conics in for one-fifth of the estate.

Mr*. Robert L. Wrbh, wife of the pastor of the First Baptist Church at Needham. Mass., met death through a hairpin penetrating her brain. While cooking Mrs. Webb was taken with an apoplectic fit and fell. A large bone hairpin indicted a severe wound and death resulted within a few minutes.