Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1899 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

Twenty-eight thousand employes of the Fall Hirer, Mass., cotton mill* are to get • 10 per cent, advance in wwgw. At Pittsburg Jobu G. ihiuscn, a lumber dealer, asked to Ik- declared a bankrupt. His liabilities are if34.SU and assets $7,300. Joseph Fox was drawn into the machinery of the card department at the Bradford mills at Philadelphia and crushed to death. S. J. Newell, a merchant of New Bedford, Mass., formerly of New York, has filed a petition iu bankruptcy. Liabilities $354,040, assets SIOO. Petitions in bankruptcy were tiled by Adolph Blitz, a New York clothier, having Unsecured claims to the amount of $423,178 and no assets. John C. Miller has been appointed receiver of the J. C. & J. C. Miller Company of Baltlwyisville, N. Y. Assets SOO,000, liabilities over $200,000. John M. Vouch, a stock dealer of West Middlesex, Pa., filed n petition in bankruptcy in the United States District Court, llis liabilities are $02,057 and assets $25. John McKay, an oil well supply and iron -pipe deiih r of Titusville, Pa., has tiled a petition in voluntary bankruptcy. The liabilities arc $178,8811. and the assets $235. John Thomson Agnew, who bad been for the last thirty years vice-president of the Continental National Bank in New York, and who was once the friend and political associate of Samuel J. Tilden, died in his eighty-fifth year at his home there, of apoplexy. Samuel Simeon, of 1445 First avenue, New York, is in Bellevue Insane pavilion, bis mind a wreck from' despair over his vanished savings, which he invested with the Ffftnklin syndicate. Stanton Barnard, formerly a Western lumberman and for many years president of the Chippewa Lumber and Boom Company of Chippewa, Wis,, is dead at iiis home in New York, aged 71 years. Mose Scborner, IS years old. left tackle of the llcfkliuer, X. football team, was thrown in a game at Herkimer with the New Hartford team and twisted his spine. He was rendered unconscious and died without regaining .consciousness. A Pennsylvania Jtailro'ad train crashed into a stage at Cranberry crossing, Pa., killing Miss Davidson of, Grafton, W. Va.; Miss .Kuintn Goeddecke of .Butlerand Mrs. Paisley of Harwood. Toney Cheroy of Hazleton, the driver of the coach, was severely injured. The doors of the home office of the Investors’ Trust, 1221 Arch street. Philadelphia, doing business exclusively with patrons outside the city and promising large profits on investments, have been closed. Efforts to find the president, secretary and cashier are unavailing.