Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1900 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Harvey Mnyner was killed and several persons were seriously Injured in a general fight in a timber camp near Breeden, W. Va. The Depew Opera House in Peekskill, owned by Senator Chauncey M. Depew, was destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at about $75,(100. Nichol Ireland, a millionaire of Providence, It. 1., who became demented six years ago mid had been living near Pierre, S. D.. died, aged 72 years. A receiver has been appointed at Saratoga, N. Y., for the Ballston Terminal Railroad, a twelve-mlle county trolleyline, owned by Philadelphia capital and bonded for $250,000. James Jtibb, an Englishman residing in New Britain, Conn., went crazy over the reverses of his countrymen in Africa, and after breaking into a neighbor’s house cut his throat with a carving knife. The Angora Manufacturing Company’s plant at Philadelphia burned. Lizzie Blackburn, nged 17 years, an employe, is missing and believed to lie in the ruins. The loss is about $150,000, partly covered by insurance. Fire did $200,000 damage at Fredonia, N. Y. Besides the loss to buildings the power house of the Dunkirk and Fredonia Street Car Company was destroyed, together with all the curs. Two lives were lost in the flames. In New York fisc broke out in the seven-story building occupied by the Heywood Bros. & Wakefield Company, chair manufacturers. One hundred and fifty men escaped in safety from the building. The loss is about $300,000. Word has been received from Moose River, in the Adirondacks, of the death there of Reese Thomas, one of the most prominent lawyers of Utica, N. Y. Mr. Thomas was killed by the premature discharge of tfce shotgun he carried. Miss Minna Field, daughter of the late Henry Field of Chicago and niece of Marshall Field, eloped with Preston Gibson of Washington and was married in New York City without the consent or her mother, Mrs. Thomas Nelson I’age. Diamonds valued at $(>,000 were stolen from the safe in the’office of Joseph K. Davidson & Son, manufacturing jewelers, in Philadelphia. That the thief was in possession of the combination is evidenced by the fact that there were no marks on the safe. Ruth Conde, only daughter of Swits Conde, millionaire manufacturer of Oswego, N. Y„ eloped with (jeorge Thorne of Utica. Mr. Thorne became acquainted with Miss Conde in the summer of 181X1 at Thousand Islands. Mrs. Conde objected to the marriage. Ofllcial notice has been issued by the Diamond and Goodyear Rubber companies of an agreement made with Theodore A. Dodge of New York, owner of patents on pingle-tnbe bicycle tires, which will result in an increase of about 50 per cent in the price of tires.