Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1899 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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William Magil), the Inventor of the atudent lamp, dropped dead at hla home in Amherst, Conn. Charles O’Neill was killed and seven men were Injured by the bursting of a gas main at New York. The horribly mutilated bodies of a Mrs. Hummed and her three children were found at their home on a small farm about a mile from Montgomery, I’a. A college for girls that will rival Girard College in benefieience and scope is to be established in Philadelphia by William L. Elkins, the traction magnate. The rioting of the wives and other feminine relatives of the striking miners at Nantieoke, Pa., was resumed and resulted in the arrest of one woman for throwing pepper in the eyes of a deputy. Against tide, wind and a heavy head sea for at least half her course the new battleship Kentucky made a record of 10.877 knots an hour on her official speed trial over the Government course from Cape Ann to Boone Island. The War Department is quietly at work on the problem of wireless telegraphy for the signal service. Capt. lteiber, at Governor’s Island, New York, is carrying on a series of experiments between that point and Touipkiusville. Petitions were filed in the bankruptcy court at Buffalo by John O. Manning and William H. Manning, members of the firm of John B. Manning & Sons, which became insolvent in 181)5. The schedule of unsecured claims is given as 51,496,477, and there are uq assets. William Anthony, widely known as. “Brave Bill’’ Anthony, the marine orderly whose coolness when the Maine was going down under his feet to the bottom of Havana harbor made him famous, committed suicide in New York. Marital unhappiness was the cause.