Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1899 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Operatfves in Fall Hirer textile mills demand 10 per cent increase in wages. Fire in the leather district of Woburn, Mass., destroyed the tanning, plant of Reggo & Cobb, rained at #75,000. Voting machine used in Buffalo with success. Last returns at city hall thirty minutes after polls closed; result known by 6 p. m. The wax works of the Germania Sugar Refining Company at Rouseville, Pa., were burned. Loss $25,000. The town has no fire department. Two hundred members of the Fortythird infantry, about to start for the Philippines, deserted while the regiment was in camp at Burlington, Vt. Articles of incorporation have been filed at Trenton, N. J.,' by the United Telephone and Telegraph Company, with an authorized capital of $5,000,000. Alderman Jacob J. Velton of Brooklyn was fined $250 by United States Judge Thomas for signing a pension voucher without the presence of the subscribed witness. Lewis Warner, who wrecked the Hampshire National and the Hampshire Savings banks in Massachusetts, has been sentenced to a term of imprisonment of between nine and twelve years. Two persous were instantly killed and one fatally injured in a collision on a crossing at Binghamton, N. Y., between a trolley car and a Delaware, Lackawanna and Western milk train. The trolley car was wrecked. In a freight collision on the Pittsburg and Lake Erie road at McKee's Rocks, Pa., Alfred C. Carter, engineer, waskilled and Thomas B. Brown, conductor, and Russell IJpton, a flagman, were probably fatally injured. At Allentown, Pa., George W. Kern, proprietor of the Hotel Mecca, shot and instantly killed his wife and himself. Thcv puir had not been living together for the past three months, owing to Kern's ill treatment of his wife.

Admiral George Dewey and Mrs. Mildred 51. Hazen were married quietly at the rectory of St. Paul’s Catholic Church in V street, Washington. The ceremony was performed by Rev. James F. Mackin, pastor of the church. Mrs. Sarah C. King, aged CO years, was murdered at her home in the Kurins' district, about nine miles from Stamford, Conn. Charles Cross, 17 years old, who was employed on the farm, is under arrest on suspicion of having committed the crime. John O'Sullivan of Newark, N. J., has just received word that he is one of two heirs to $1,000,000 left by an uncle in England. When O’Sullivan was ill the shoe business in Chicago several years ago his store was burned down and his wealth completely wiped out. St. Mary’s Episcopal Church at Colestown, the oldest church in Now Jersey, was destroyed by a fire of supposed incendiary origin. It was built in 1070, and was of grent historic interest. The lire is supposed to liilve been started by thieves, who first robbed the edifice. K. F. Lamed of Poland, N. Y., will die as the result of a jump from a Burlington imssenger train near Harvard, Neb. He is badly hurt übout the head, and one shoulder is dislocated. It is supposed Mr. La rued suddenly became insane, for he gave a scream and dived for the window, through which he went before anyone could stop hiui.