Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1900 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Charles A. Siegfried, medical Inspector of the United States navy, died at Newport, R. L, aged 50. Gen. George H. Sharpe, aged 72, of Kingston, N. Y„ died nt New York City, of the shock following an operation. The Meriden Bronze Company, one of the leading industries of Meriden, Conn,, has suspended business. The liabilities are $311,578.63, the assets $263,974. An involuntary petition in bankruptcy has been tiled against Benjamin F. Larrabee, head of the firm of B. F. Larrabee, operating a department store in Boston. The rolling mill of the Danville and Bessemer Steel Company at Danville, Pa., was damaged by tire to the extent' of $50,000. During the fire six men were injured. Felix Morris, the character actor, died at his home in New York, aged 53 years. He leaves a widow, formerly Florence Wood of San Francisco, any tvfo young daughters. Alexander Williams, bookseller and publisher, died at his home in Boston, aged 81 years. Mr. 'Williams was for many years proprietor of the “Old Corner Bookstore.” Three hundred men employed in the coal mines of the Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Company’s plant at' Natrona struck for higher wages. They demand from 10 to 20 per cent increase. Col. A. D. Hope died at his home in Roselle, N. J., after a lingering illness. Col. Hope, who was 83 years old, had charge of the first train to carry troops during the civil war to Washington. A recently organized company will put into public service in the streets of New York at once 200 automobile carriages and 100 automobile omnibuses, ('barge for cabs will be 25 cents a mile and 75 cents an hour. Lieut. Samuel Howard, I’. S. N., the pilot and last of the officers and crew of Ericsson’s Monitor during her.memorable engagement with the ■ Confederate ironclad Merrimac, died at Washington from concussion of the brain. Because his 16-months-old baby refused to mind him was the excuse given by J. G. Wagner of Allegheny. I’a.. before. Police Magistrate Henry Hunneshagen for beating the infant. Magistrate Hunneshagen lined him $lO and costs. A. Blanchard, aged 65 years, his wife, aged 43, and a boarder named William Money, aged 58, were burned to death in their home in Merrimac, N. H. The Blanchards were in the habit of using kerosene to light their fires, and it is thought that an explosion took place.