Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1900 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Altamont de Cordova is dead in New York, aged ,02. James Seely, a well-known maker of perfumes, is dead at - his home in Rochester.- - John Wright Dean, the “Quaker evan* gelist,” is dead at Pawtucket, R. 1., aged 70 year?. . Eily Cogh.lan, actress, sister of Rose and Charles Cogitlan, died at Stamford, Conn., aged 36. Fire destroyed (he .1. P. Mathieu Company’s glace kid works in Philadelphia. Loss >IOO,OOO. James B. Kellogg, formerly of the E. S. Denn Company, was convicted of swindling in New York. At Fitchburg, Maw., fire destroyed the hardware store of the Damon & Gould Company. Loss >90,000. The Sans Hottci Opera House block and the Schaffer building at Ballston Spa, near Saratoga, N. Y„ were burned. Loss >150,000. Negotiations are said to be in progress for u combination of the gigantic new Carnegie company and the Cramp shipbuilding concern. The physical one of the largest nnd finest buildings of Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa., was destroyed by fire. The loss probably will exceed >300,000. “Sapho” was officially declared a proper play by the New York jury before which Miss Olga Nethersole and her associates were tried for maintaining a public nuisance. John William Key, a famous minstrel forty years ago, is dead at his home in North Paterson, N. J., aged 77 years. He was the last surviving member of the original Christy minstrels. The wedding of Miss Ilunnah Walker Sampson, youngest daughter of Rear Admiral William T. Hampson, to Ensign Wat Tyler Culverlus, U. 8. N., took placeat the commandant’s residence at the Boston navy yard and was attended by many army and navy officers and their families. There are all of twenty new vessels being constructed by the leading steamship lines for the transatlantic service between New York and foreign ports. In addition to these there are at least five new lineYa that are nearly finished and will be placed in commission in the early part of the coming season, besides a large number of vessels that will carry freight exclusively. For the second time in three years the extensive department store of Joseph Horne & Co., at' the corner of Fifth street and Penn avenue, Pittsburg, is in ruins. .Shortly after midnight Policeman Sylvester Doyle discovered flames issuing "from the windows of th«« eighth floor and inside of an hour the big eight-story structure was destroyed, entailing a loss of nearly >2,000,000. The firm will resume business at once. Charles Hendrick, who claims Ilion, 111., as his home, is in jail at Binghamton, N. Y„ for brutally assaulting his sweetheart in their boarding place. He entered the dining room, and, pulling her from her chair, dragged her about the room by the hair, ending by grinding his heel in her face, bruising it into an unrecognizable mass, tearing off an ear nnd disfiguring her for life. When arrested his only explanation was: “1 gave her what she deserved.” He had been paying her attention, and, it is said, she rejected his suit.