Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1899 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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The lumber yards of Andrew F. I>*tb•rbee and Blaker & Shepard in Boston were damaged $00,060 by fire. A seat in tfie New York Stock Exchange was sold the other day for $40,000, the highest price ever paid. At Enfield, N. H., the Baltic mill, owned by the American Woolen Mills Company, was partially burned. Loss SIOO,000. Mrs. C. A. Burling, mother-in-law of Rear Admiral William T. Sampson, died at her home in Rochester, N. Y., aged <0 years. . «. John D, Rockefeller is reported to he hacking H. C. Frick in platis to establish an iron aud steel plant to compete with Carnegie, Ralph and Clyde Hendricks, brothers, aged 13 and 11, and Albert Schilling, aged 14, while skating at Gallitzia, Pa., were drowned. The powder works of James S. Miller, near Sumneytowh, Pa., were wrecked by an explosion. Three men wore killed au<f several others injured. The New Jersey State grange declared in favor of electing United States ators by the people and for the extension of rural mail delivery. James MeCouueii, editor and one of the proprietors of the Evening Star of Philadelphia, died suddenly in that city, aged 55 years. Paralysis was the cause. James P. Reed, the famous cheekei player, formerly champion of the world, died at the Homeopathic hospital in Pittsburg, I’a., from an epileptic tit. Reed was 40 years of age. An explosion blew up the nitroglycerin magazine of the Pennsylvania Torpedo Company at Bolivar Hollow, Pa. The shock was felt at a distance of many miles. Nobody was killed. Mrs. Elizabeth Somerville, 83 years old, and her daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Lindsay, 50 years of age, were found dead in their apartments in New York. They had been asphyxiated by gas. Pain's Fireworks Company has made an assignment at Brooklyn. The trouble is said to be due to damage suits arising from an accident at Columbus, Ohio, where many persons were injured. .Commander Charles P. Howell, chief engineer of the United States battleship Maine when that vessel was blown up in Havana harbor, is dead at his home in New York City. lie died from an apoplectic strolat. The Carbon County Improvement Company’s electric light plant, wagon works, foundry, facing mill, ice plant aud machine shop at NVeissport, Pa., were total ly destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at SIOO,OOO.