Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1900 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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▲ Philadelphia book seller was sentenced to one year ;n jail for selling "Sapho” and similar books. Philadelphia has paid the second installment of $25,000 guaranteed for the national Republican convention. Fire visited the Willard business block and apartment house on Broadway, Troy, N. V., and caused SIOO,OOO damage. Congressman Sydney Eppes of Virginia, who was operated on for appendicitis, died at Garfield hospital at Washington. The directors of the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company, at their meeting in Boston, declared a dividend of S2O a share. A west-bound New York Central passenger train was derailed at Phelps Junction, N. Y., by snow. The road was blocked, for several hours. Charles L. Davies died at Pittsburg, Pa., from pneumonia and paralysis. Mr. Davies was known to theater-goers almost entirely for his old character of the farmer, Alvin Josliu. The bodies of ninety-six soldiers wtfo died in Cuba since the end of the Span-ish-Afnerican war were buried with military honors at Arlington cemetery, Washington, I). CL About 0,000 cutters, blacksmiths and tool sharpeners in the New England granite quarries went on strike for $3 a day and an eight-hour day. A few firms have agreed to* the strikers’ demands. The Casein .Company of America was incorporated at Trenton, N. J., with a capital of $0,000,000. The company will manufacture condensed, sterilized nnd evaporated milk and the hy-produets of milk. Ganns William Perkins of Grand Rapids, Midi., a student in the freshman class of the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University, is ill with smallpox at his room in New Haven. Several others in the university have been exposed. The Savannah line steamer Gate City, which ran ashore three miles west of Moriches, L. 1., on the night of Feb. 8, has broken in two. All hope of saving the vessel had been given up and the wreckers were attending to the removal of her cargo. The large rubber manufacturing plant of the L. Caudee Company at New Haven, Conn., was closed, and work will not be resumed until April 1. More than 1,250 employes are thrown out of work. Owing to the extremely mild winter orders have been unusually small. John Martin, 10- years old, a mill operative in Cohoes. N. Y„ became insanely jealous of Mary Perry, another operative, and, drawing a revolver, shot the girl three times. Martin had been paying attentions to the girl for several months, until recently, when she refused to accept him. The business block in Waynesboro, Pa., owned by J. I*, and J. M. Wolff and occupied by fourteen firms was entirely gutted by fire, causing a loss of SBO,OOO. The heaviest losers are Wolff Brothers, whose combined loss on stock of carpets and building is $48,000, on which there is an insurance of $15,000. The 20,000 men employed in the cokemanufacturing industry in the Connellsville, I’a., region were notified the other day that their wages had been advanced an average of 121,4 per eent. Notice was posted by the H. (J. Frick Coke Company, nnd all the other companies have agreed to grant the same increase in wages.