Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1900 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Benjamin, Wood, editor of the New York Daily News, is dead at the age of 80 years. “Uncle Dan” Rice, the veteran clown, died at Long Branch after a lingering illness. He was 77 years old. Glen Hazel, Pa., was almost totally destroyed by fire. Loss $20,000 to $30,000, with about $6,000 insurance. Antonio Ferraro was electrocuted at Sing Sing prison for the murder of Luciano Muchio in Brooklyn April 4, 1808. Harry C. Miner, former Congressman and proprietor of three theaters in New York, dropped dead of apoplexy in his home in that city. Charles H. Hcnstis, editor in-chief of the Inquirer and health officer of the port of Philadelphia, was robbed of his gold watch by three highwaymen. The handsome residence of Robert Johnson, a retired dry goods merchant of New York, on the Hudson at Mount St. Vincent, N. Y., was burned. The damage is $11)0,000. Olga Nethersole, Marcus Mayer, her manager, and Hamilton Revelle, her leading man, were arrested in New York for creating a public nuisance by producing “Sapho." A man, supposed to be John Lazarus of Mount Carmel, Pa., jumped from Goat Island bridge into the upper rapids at Niagara Fails, N. Y., and went over the American fulls. 11. C. Frick, Henry Phipps, Jr., John Walker and F. T. F. Lovejoy will in the near future erect a steel plant on Monongahela river frontage, just below Mondngahela City, Pa. The marriage ot Henry M. Alden of New York, editor-in-chief of Harper’s publications, to Mrs. Ada F. Murray of Norfolk, Va., took place at the First Presbyterian Church, Washington. Distinguished jurists and educators from all parts of the United States and from Englund took part in the formal dedication of the new law building of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia. Gen. John McNulta of Chicago died at the Hamilton Hotel in Washington. Gen. McNulta went to Washington to attend to business in connection with the .Illinois National Bank, foa. which he was the receiver. In his sleep James Mulhearn of New York, 10 years old, climbed over the guard rail that had been built into the window of the rtfoin In which he had been abed, fell four stories to the sidewalk, and was only slightly hurt. Au extra .west-bound- Panhandle freight was derailed cast of Dinsmore, Pa., and passenger No. 34 came along before a flagman could be sent out, and a wreck followed that injured several persons and damaged engines and cars. George E. Cox, buyer for George i*. Gore &■ Co., shoe dealers of Chicago, having an office in Boston, was taken ill in Keith's theater, in that city. He was removed to the lobby and medical attendance summoned, but he died soon after. Samuel. M. Bnia, whose invention known as the Brua milling process resulted in litigation with millers in almost every section of the United States for alleged infringement, was found dead in his room at Lancaster, Pa., having been asphyxiated by coal gas.