Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1899 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Rev. Dr. James F. Bruner la dead at Washington, aged 77. Haddens E- Horton of the New York Times died in New York. Andrew Carnegie has given $1,730,000 to enlarge the institute bearing his name at Pittsburg. Gorshou Siegel, vice-president of the Sicgel-Cooper Company, died at New York, aged 59. George B. M. Harvey has been made president and manager of Harper & Bros. Deal with Doubleday & McClure failed. At Hazleton, Pa., Miner McGeehan dug oat of the solid coal in the Laurel Hill colliery a chunk of virgin copper. Copper iu a coal seam is a geological curiosity. In Washington, D. C., Charles F. Goleva y attempted to act as peacemaker iu a quarrel. He was knocked to the sidewalk, the fall causing a fracture of the skull, from which he died. The Rev. Joseph Hartwell of Binghamton, N. Y., who died recently, held .papers wFich it is claimed will entitle his heirs to a large part of the land ou which the village of Pullman, 111., is now located. Harry Hatfield, the lightweight boxer, who was knocked out by Jack. Fox in a prize fight iu the Pelican Athletic Club. Brooklyn, is dead. He never regained consciousness after 1 icing counted out. A meeting of the representatives of the Middle States Furniture Association was held at Williams|K>rt, Pa., for the purpose of fixing a schedule of prices. It was agreed to advance prices 10 per cent at once. The American Irou and Steel Manufacturing Company has suspended operations iu all its puddling and rolling mills at Lebanon, Pa. The cause assigued is an exhausted coal supply, resulting from tbc car famine. The Ross House, a four-story structure at Ridgwav, Pa., has been almost entirely destroyed by fire. It is thought the fire was caused by an explosion of natural gas used in lighting aud heating the building. The valuation of the hotel was about $-10,000. The Sloss-SbctHold Company has licen organized at New York, with a capital of $20,000,000. The company has $2,200.000 iu cash paid iu for the purpose of paying for the properties outside of the Sloss Iron and Steel Company and for developing its coal aud ore properties.