Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1900 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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At Quincy. Mass., thJfiifaslg hall build-, ing was burned. Los/gSK.OtM). ‘ New Hampshire Prohrbitiupfsp nomi-, nated Josiah M. -Fletcher of Nashua for Governor. f John G. MUrpfiy, a tfMLknown mining engineer, ir dead in New York from a stroke of apoplexy. Commander Richard' Wainwright has assumed his new duties m superintendent of the naval academy at Annapolis, At a meeting of the Yale corporation a gift was announced of $150,000 to Stale for the purpose of founding a school of ’ Sidney Pointer, the oldest colt by Star Bdihter, ’tile world’s fastest pacer, has been sold by W. H. Moffatt of Kemp* Jille, N. Y„ to McLaren of Ottawa for 6,500. Capt. Benjamin F. Crosby of Cotuit, Mass., was burned to death aboard the schooner John VV. Linnell, lying nt the pier of the Graffiin fertilizer works at Lower Canton, Baltimore. At least fifteen persons were injured in a rear-end trolley cur collision at Newark, N. J. A Belleville car crashed at full speed into a Newark and Paterson car which had stopped to let off passengers/ Fire destroyed five of the best- business buildings in Hopkinton. Mass. The -loss is estimated at $75,000 to SIOO,OOO. The local tire department was unable to eope with the conflagration, which ultimately burned itself out. The organization of the Standard Chain Company has been perfected In New York. Nine manufacturers turned over their properly to the company and elected officers aud directors. The company is capitalized at $3,000,000. Frank E. Bundy, who for the last six years has occupied the office of chamberlain of Elmira, N. Y., and for three years previously was clerk in the chamberlain’s office, has voluntarily confessed a shortage of $30,000 in his accounts. The American Tobacco Company discharged the entire force of employes at its cheroot factory in New York aud will discontinue work nt the factory, the lease of the building having expired. About 500 men and women were thrown out of employment. A $10,000,000 ice deal is announced at Augusta, Me., in the purchase of the Knickerbocker Ice Company by the American Ice Company. The Knickerbocker company controls the bulk of the retail output of natural ice in the cities of Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington.

Walter Nishwitz, the proprietor of large agricultural implement works at Millingtoq, N. J., died nt his home in Baskingridgc, N. J., aged 70 years. Twenty-five years ago Mr. Nishwitz invented a mowing machine and sold this patent to the Walter A. Wood Company for SIOO,OOO. In a paroxysm of inexplicable rage or possible insanity Olof Pa liesen, a; Norwegian, stabbed and killed bis wife, Josephine, murdered little Julia Hengesbach, the 3-year-old daughter of Charles F. Hcngesbach. a mail carrier, and murderously assaulted the child's mother, Mary Hengesbach, in Washington, D. C. The Mohawk Valley Hotel block, at Mohawk, N. Y., was burned. It contain* ed, besides the hotel, five stores, the postoffice, the offices of the town clerk, justice of the peace, insurance office, Masonic Hall, and opera, house. Little except the mail was saved from the building. The total losses arc estimated at SIOO,OOO.