Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1900 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Louis Harris, colored, was lynched at Belair, MJ.' Meal work on the New York $30,000,000 tunnel for underground rapid transit has bepti bpgun. Bachman & Forey’s planing mill at Columbia, Pa., was destroyed by fire. Loss over $75,000, uninsured. Coeducation is to be abolished at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., and a women’s College established. Fire entirely destroyed the Clinton Liberal institute building at Fort Plain, N. Y.. entailing a loss of $95,000. All the students have been sent home on account of diphtheria in the Lawrenceville Academy, near Princeton, N. J. The Paterson, N. J., Hobart memorial committee lias now $12,500 in the fund to ’build a monument to the late VicePresident. One man wits killed and five men injured by a eave-in at White Hall tunnel on the Baltimore nud Ohio Railroad, ten miles south of Pittsburg. One of the elevators in the seven-story factory building, 247 Center street, New York, broke its cable and fell seven stories, injuring three of its occupants. John T. Martin of Euston, I’a., has been awarded damages of $55,000 against the-Delaware and Hudson Railroad for permanent injuries received in an accident. One person was killed and four were seriously injured by a terrible explosion of collodion in the photographic supply house of Thomas M. McCollin & Co. in Philadelphia. A receiver has been appointed for the Joseph C. Godfrey Company, manufacturers of tissue paper nt Raubsville, Pa. The liabilities exceed $75,000 and the assets less than $30,000. The wage scale for the coal miners of the Pittsburg district was signed, to become effective April 1, the basis being a horizontal advance of 21.21 per cent. The (Settlement affects 20,000 men. William 11. House, former assistant city attorney of Pittsburg, Pa., serving a sentence in the western Pennsylvania penitentiary for alleged embezzlement of city funds, has been pardoned. Through the breaking down of the first floor in the factory building at 213 and 215 East Forty-fourth street. New York, which was totally destroyed by fire, three firemen were killed and two injured. A special from Washington says: "Lord Salisbury has apologized to the United States for the opening by the British censor at Durban of mail addressed to exConsul Charles E. Macrtnn at Pretoria.” At Oil City, I’a., Amos Elder, an oil well driller, shot and killed his wife. Elder was intoxicated at the time and tho shooting occurred after a terrible struggle in which the woman sought to save her life. The murderer escaped.