Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1900 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

Mrs. Mary Blackstone Plant is dead at Branford. Conn., aged 82. In New York 5,000 eigar makers were locked out by six large firms, * Students of social science will start an altruistic town in New Jersey. Dr. C. H. Parkhurst has sided with Dr. Hillis and demands a new Presbyterian creed. At Scranton, Pa., George Manger, aged 88 years, committed suicide by blowing out his brains. A. M. Candell of Washington, D. U„ and Miss Penelope Cuniff of Perkins. Ok., were married by telegraph. Certificate of incorporation was tiled at Dover, Del., for the Reuter Automobile Company of Chicago. Capital $500,000. An autopsy on the body of Dr. James R. Cocke, the blind physician, found dead in Boston, indicates that he shot himself, J. Wesley Churchill Bartlett, professor of sacred rhetoric and elocution at Andover, Mass., seminary, is dead. The handsome building of the Catholic Club in New York was badly damaged by fire. The police estimate the damage at about $28,000. Two men were badly injured in West Orange, N. J., in a sham battle in reproduction of the famous engagement at Spion kop. South Africa. Three men were instantly killed and one fatally injured nenr Snowshoe, Pa., in a wreck on the Snowshoe branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Three masked robbers blew open the safe and wrecked the postottice at Mount Airy, Md.. with dynamite and secured $1)50 in stamps and $350 cash. j Levi Beebe, the famous weather prophet who predicted the March blizzard of 1888, was found dead in his house on Beartown mountain in the town of Lee, Mass. A fire in the lumber yards and coal elevators that line the upper part of Newtown creek in Brooklyn, N. Y., did nearly $500,000 damage to proiierty and caused the loss of at least one life.

The First Parish Church, Concord, Mass., one of Concord’s best known historic buildings, was destroyed by tire. The loss is $25,000. It was there that Emerson, Thoregu and other literary men worshiped. William F. Miller of the Franklin syndicate was convicted in Brooklyn of grand larceny on the indictment charging him with having taken SI,OOO for Catherine Moeser under false pretenses and with the design of robbing her. Control of the Pittsburg, Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad has passed to the Carnegie company by virtue of the purchase of 10,000 shares of the stock from Col. Samuel B. Dick, chairman of the board of directors of the railroad. Abram R. Wiltse, most of the time a butcher and some of the time constable of Fishkill village, N. Y„ arrested a painter, William Reilly, put him in the village lockup and then forgot all about him. He was rescued four days afterward more dead than alive.