Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1900 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

Fire destroyed the plant of the Reed Fertilizer Company at Eastwood, N. Y. Loss $50,000. Officials and strikers of the New York Central Railway have reached an agreement and the men will return to work. The Philadelphia City National Bank has decided to merge with the Philadelphia National Bank. Its capital is $400,000. A tierce forest fire has been raging in the woods between Cedarville and Center Grove, N. J. Thousands of acres of valuable oak and pine have been burned and the loss will be enormous. Burglars entered the First National Bank of East Brady, Pa., and blew bpen the safe, taking cverythintT in sight, including pennies. The loss is estimated at SIO,OOO. There is no clew to the robbers. William Crowuinshield Endicott, Secretary of War in President Cleveland’s first administration and one of the foremost lawyers and orators of the East, died at his winter house in Boston, of pneumonia. -The immense brick building of the Wakefield Rattan Company at Wakefield, Mass., caught fire, xt»d before the flames could be subdued the building and contents were damaged to the extent of $50,000. Oliver L. Stewart, secretary of the Laird malleable iron works of Huntingdon, Pa., was instantly killed by the bursting of an emery wheel at the company’s works. A piece of the wheel pierced his heart. Another leap from the Brooklyn bridge into the East river and to death was made by Edward M. Bryant. He did it at the behest of a newspaper in Park Row, which published the full , details simultaneously with the daring descent. A fire which started in the industrial school building on Randall’s Island, New York, caused a panic among the children in the children’s hospital, which stood next to the burning building. The industrial school was burned to the ground. No one was injured. Francis T. Watton, known- as "the plunger,” opened his new hotel, the Victoria, in New York, a few days ago and at the same time started in to starve himself. For twenty-one days he continued his fast. It was done to cure his rheumatism, and effected the object. The American Ax and Tool Company has purchased thirty-eight acres of river frontage at Glassport, near Pittsburg, and will erect thereon a $500,000 plant, the largest of its kind ever built. The works will employ 1,000 men and will begin operation before the end of the year. Passenger train No. 107 on the Wheeling division of the Baltimore and Ohio road was wrecked just cast of Gastonville, Pa. Patrick J. Horan, track inspector, was killed and two trainmen were badly hurt. None of the passengers was hurt. Investigation showed that some person had driven a spike into a tie in such a way that when the engine struck it it jumped the track. A fire that started at the river end of the Mallory line steamship pier, at the foot of Maiden Lane and the East river, New York, completely destroyed the pier and its valuable contents. The police place the loss at $1,000,000. Several barges which were moored near the pier were also destroyed. The 9-months-old daughter of Capt. Charles Lochs of the barge Sherwood was drowned.