Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1900 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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By an explosion of dynamite at the Carnegie blast furnaces. Duquesne, Pa., six laborers were injured. Fire destroyed the brick factory build ing. 338 and 342 East Fifty-ninth street, New York t’it.v Loss $400,066. The Pennsylvania Railway Company's Juniata, Pa., blacksmith shop was burned. Loss $106,000, covered by insurance. The JohH V. Schaefer Company, mail ufacturets of cabinet work and interior decorat ions. New York, lias made an an signment. William 11. P ntniim, thfr undertaker Who conducted the funerals of Henry (.’lay and Daniel Webster, is dead at •New York, aged S,l years. St. George's Protestant Episcopal Cliiireh. Brooklyn. N. Y„ vvas burned out, the loss amounting to $56,000. A defective fltie probably started the fire. ('apt. Charles D. Sigsbee. commander Of the battleship Texas, now at the Brooklyn navy yard, hurt his riglit leg while alighting from a trolley Car in Nqw York. Rev. Dr. Edward McGlynn, rector of St. Mary's Chitreh, Newburg. N. Y . died after an illness of aboilt seven weeks of heart failure, superinduced by Bright’s d isease. .lames ( 'a.lhouii, formerly resident manager of the Equitable Life Insurance Company at Harrisburg, Pa., committed suicide by shooting himself . He was ill poor health. Three boy s 1 were drowned at Hintons pond, near Raleigh. N. ('.. while crossing the ice. They were William Williamson, aged IS; Edwin Lee, 14, and .lames Hinton. aged 15. Chiara Cignnraie, who murdered her husband in New York City April 21), ISS6, and who was serving a life sentence iii Auburn prison, was pardoned by Gov. Roosevelt. Two women were burned to death in a fire, that occurred in a big New: York tenement house. '1 he bodies were recovered, but have not been identified. Sev eral persons were injured. Joel G. Tyler, late teller of the SafetyNational Bank of Fitchburg. Mass., was sentenced ill the United States Court to serve five years in Worcester jail for ein bezzlilig the funds of the bank. Ernest J. Lehmann, founder of the Fair in Chicago, and the originator of the department store idea, died at White Plains, N. Y. He had been for years at a private sanitarium in.the East. The committee having in charge the perpetuation of the Dewey nrch in NewYork City is assured a fund of $260,(MM1. John D. Rockefeller has pledged himself to give $5,00(1 and a New York banker subscribed s2,o<*o'.