Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1900 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

Acter John Z. Little Is dead at Brooklyn. A. C. Rand of the Laflin & Rand lewder Company died at New York, aged 59. The Kingsfortl boiler work* at Oswego, N. Y„ were destroyed by lire. Loss sßo,* 000. David W. ltceves, well-known baud : master. Is dead at Providence. It. L, aged 52. Fifteen persons, a majority of whom were children, were burned to death at a tenement house at Newark, N. J. Captain Silas W. Terry, Into in command of-the lowa, has been assigned to succeed Admiral McCormick as commandant of the Washington navy yard. Rev. Thomas I\. Beecher, brother of Henry Ward Beecher and pastor of Pnrk Church, Elmira, N. Y„ was stricken \\iUi paralysis on his return home from evening service Sunday. Edward John Phelps, Kent professor of law at Yale aud former minister tq England, died at hi* home iu New Haven, Conn. llis death was due directly to an abscess of (he lungs. The Smith Fuse manufactory nt Compton, N. J., blew up and four persons were killed and a numher iuore or less injured. A large portion of the works was wrecked and the loss will reach $50,000. Almost all the gambling-houses in New York were closed ns tight as drums all day Sunday. Even the live aud ten cent games hud their doors barred. • The city is undergoing a spasm of virtue such as it has not experienced in many years. Andrew J. Robinson, a New York builder doiug business under the firm name of Robinson & Wallace, assigned for the benefit of creditors. Mechanics'« liens have been filed against the firm of Robinson & Wallace aggregating over SIOO,OOO. Fire in the building of the Massachusetts Macaroni Company on North street, Boston, caused the death of one tiremuu, the probably fatal injury of another, and, the serious injury of three others, beside entailing a financial loss estimated from $75,000 to $150,000. A New York correspondent writes that he has learned on the best authority that Count Castellano succeeded in securing a loan from the brothers and sisters of his wife amounting to more than $1,000,000. It was not without much difficulty, however, that he did so. The biggest strike of cigariufikers in ten years has been declared against the firm of Kerbs, Wertheiui & Schiffer of New York. More than 5,300 workers, 1,500 of whom are girls, after making a demand of their employers for au increase in wages, quit work.