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

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Alexander G. Skene, M. D., of Brooklyn is dead at Higbmount, Catskills. Henry Barnard, well-known writer on educational topics, is dead at Hartford, Conn., aged 92. - P. Nissen failed to make his trip through the Niagara whirlpool rapids because he couldn’t get his boat launched. Fire iu the angle iron-smith shop of the William Cramp's Sous’ Shipbuilding Company at Philadelphia did $15,000 damage. The box factory of Thomas B. Itice & Ron at the Mifflin street wharf, Philadelphia, was almost destroyed by fire. Loss, $50,000. At Scranton, Pa., the coal exchange, stoie and office building, owned by John Jennyn, was almost entirely destroyed by fire. Loss $125,000. Notices were posted iu the plate mill of Moorhead Brothers at Sharpsburg, I’a.. announcing a 20 per cent, reduction of wages throughout the plate mill. Iu resenting un insult to two young women by three hilarious men who were celebrating four well-known young men were shot at Dover, N. II , all fatally. Three men were killed and one man had a leg broken by a wreck on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Rnilroad at Durkin’s Cut, near Uenryrille, Pn. The Standard Oil Company’s works at Bayonne, N. J., were destroyed by a fierce fire that started from the explosion of a lank of crude oil by a lightning bolt. The loss is nboul $3,000,000. Wellesley Coliege is a principal beneficiary by a will of Capt. George F. Towle, U. 8. A., retired, of Newcastle, N. 11., who recently died iu London, leaving an estate of about SIOO,OOO. Miss Amelia Knusiicr, the painter of miniatures, was' married to Capt. Charles Du Pont Coudert, in St. Patrick’s Cathedral. New York, Capt. Coudert is fc son of the late Charles Coudert. At Worcester, Mass., fire destroyed the property of the K. P. Crane Lumber Company and the Dnniels-Cornell Compnny, wholesale grocers. Firemnu Luby was probably fatally injured. Loss, $125,000. The roof over tinr covered walk at the western entrance to the union station at Pittsburg collapsed ami injured six persons. The framework for a distance of 125 feet fell on the pavemenj and completely buried the Fort Wayne and Pittsburg A Birmingham traction works. The bodies of a number of drowned seamen, still clad iu their oilskins, were passed by the schooner K. E. Birdsull, which has arrived at Philadelphia from Fall P.iver. There was nothing on their clothing to indicate what ship they had manned. The inventory of the personal estate of the ,late Vice President Garret A. Hobart lias been filed with the surrogate at Paterson, N. J. It appraises the estate nt $2,628,441. Mr. Hobart held bonds in twenty-six corporations and stock in over 100. The sheet steel combine officials and tlie Amalgamated Association came together at Pittsburg and signed a compromise sheet scale. The basis will be the same us last year on a 3 cent card rate. About 15,000 men are affected by the settlement. Two people were killed outright and a third seriously hurt iu a railroad accident at Pittsburg. The dead are Mrs. Elizabeth Edwards, aged 40, and Thomas Morris, aged 4S. Thomas Edwards, husband of the dead woman, had his leg so badly lacerated that it will have to be amputated.