Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1900 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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James 81oan, banker, died at Baltimore, aged 07. _— _ Rev. Dr. Latimer W. Ballou died at Woonsocket, R. 1., aged 89. Rev. J. P. Kiernan, vicar of the Rochester diocese, is dead, aged 44. Criminal charges against John W. Gates were dismissed by Magistrate Zella in New York op technical grounds. • The A. F. Watson Company’s warehouse, located on the bay front, at Erie, Pa., was destroyed by fire. Loss $30,000. Rioting has been going on at Turtle Creek, Pa.; because the board of health tried to use an abandoned schoolhouse for a smallpox hospital. Horatio It. Harper, a member of the famous family of publishers, is in a serious condition at his home at Sands Point, L. 1., having been terribly bitten on ’the face by a horse. ' ' Mrs. Allan Park ran a mile through flames and smoke and brought assistance that saved a train full of passengers that had been trapped by a forest fire and collision near Newton, Pa. 'Die chainmakers employed at the works of J. C. Schmidt & Co., York, Pa., ninety-t'wo in number, went on strike. A demand for an increase of 10 cents per 100 links was made and refused. The British steamship Cuzco, Copt. Dexter, has arrived at Philadelphia with a large cargo of silver ore. The silver comes from mines in the Andes mountains and was shipped from Callao. Two heavy freight trains collided in a tunnel on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in Philadelphia. Two trainmen and five tramps are known to be dead. The property loss is estimated at $185,000. In the fastest, prettiest and closest heavyweight ring battle ever fought in New York James J. Jeffries decisively defeated Jim Corbett, once champion of the world himself, after twenty-two rounds of scientific fighting. Fire which broke out in the Farmers’ market house, Fifth and Federal streets, Camden, N. J., destroyed that building, ten stores and about fifty small dwellings, causing n loss of $125,000 and rendering homeless about 250 persons. It cost Aiderman Peter F. Rourke of Cambridge, Mass., SI,OOO to kick John Martin, a boy. Last May several boys annoyed Rourke, who is a large real estate owner, and he chased them and kicked Martin so hard that he ate off a shelf for two weeks. John W. Gates resigned the chairmanship of the board of directors of the American Steel and Wire Company and left for Europe. He is succeeded byAlfred Clifford of Chicago. John Lambert, the president of the company, resigned in favor of William P. Palmer.