Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1900 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Tom Gould, of national notoriety as a keeper of saloons in New York, is dead. Woman suffragists in Washington formally celebrated Susan B. Anthony’s eightieth birthday. Mrs. Thomas tycKean of Philadelphia has made a gift of $25,000 to th* University of Pennsylvania. Fire did $50,000 damage at 231 Mercer street. New York. The losses are divided among fur and clothing firms. The funeral of William H. Lots, Reading’s fattest man, took place at Reading. Pa. Mr, Lots weighed 547 pounds. The Pittsburg Plate Glass Company announces a general advance of 5 per cent, on glass prices, effective at once. Mrs. Annie E. Lodge, mother of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, is dead at her home in Boston. She was 70 years of age. George Weeks, corored. was hanged in Moyatnensing. Pa., prison for the murder of Alice White, also colored. Dec. 25, ISOS. James L. Spaulding, who formerly conducted a large wholesale tobacco business in Louisville, died at Sayville. L. 1., aged GO. Thomas Parsons and Jacob Dull, boys aged about 13 years, were found asphyxiated iii a closet of the Metropolitan Hotel, Millvale, Pa. Three' men were drowned and $250,000 damage done to the property along the Hudson river by the worst freshet which Albany has seen since 1857. At Pottsville. Pa., Thomas Brennan of New Philadelphia was hunged for the murder of Harry Elliott, a neighbor and fellow workman in a colliery. Mrs. Rachel B. Crane of Peekski IKN. Y„ has given $50,000 to the home innF’ sion board of the Presbyterian Church and $50,000 to its foreign mission board. J. A. Woods is the champion pie eater of New Jersey. At it contest be ate eleven large apple pies in nine and onehalf minutes. He was three pies ahead of his closest competitor. The 1,800 employes of G.' B. Markle Co., anthracite coal mine operators of Hazleton, Pa., have been notified of a 5 per cent increase in their wages, the second advance in the last two months. At Pittsburg fire gutted a three-story brick building at 947 Liberty avenue, occupied by Sol Cerf & Co., wholesale jewelers, causing a loss estimated at from $75,000 to SBO,OOO, partially covered byinsurance.

The steel sheet mills of the country were combiued at u meeting held at Pittsburg, twenty-five concerns out of twenty-nine being represented. The capital stock ot the combination was fixed at $52,000,000. John B. Oltmau, a broker, was killed at the New York Athletic Club by falling down the marble stairs leading to the main tloor. When half way down tbe stairs he slipped and fell, then slid down the remaining steps, his head striking each step. The coal barges Blossom and Alice Tryon foundered off Port Chester. N. Y., with six persons, all ot whom were probably lost. On tbe Tryon were the captain, his wife and two children. Ou the Blossom were the captain’s brother and a deck hand.