Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1900 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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The Garlaud chain works at Rankin, Pa., were destroyed by lire/ Loss SIOO,000. The fire was caused by the explosion of a tank of chemicals. The little schooner Madcap foundered in Lake Ontario off the bay of Quinte. The crew escaped in its boat. The Madcap was loaded with a cargo of 750 bushels of peas. Poverty, ill health and a weak-minded wife impelled Louis Risen* a Baltimore shoemaker, to kilt himself, his -wife and their 13-months-old babe with a razor and to Wound his 3Vi-year-old son. Thomas F. Tieman had been deaf and dumb for fifty-nine years and was cured by falling from the robs. of a house in Pittsburg. The shock caused by the fall had restored his speech and hearing. Rev. Dwight Galloupe, known all over the country ils the “Fighting Chaplain of the Sixth infantry.” was. found dead in the bathroom of lus home at Newark, N. J. Apoplexy was the cause of death. The big Harper & Bros.’ publishing plant will be sold under foreclosure on Aug. t>. The sale will include the right to use the name of Harper & Bros., together with the real estate, machinery, •took, copyrights and publications. The bark Calcium, Capt.. Smith, from Ivigtut, Greenland, arrived at Philadelphia with n cargo of cryolite. The bark wus expected to bring tidings from Lieut. Peary, who is in the arctic regions in quest of the north pole, but had no news from the explorer. There is a deficiency of nearly $40,000 in the funds and accounts of the Dime Savings Bank, one of the oldest financial institutions in Newark, N. J., and Okas. It. Wesfervclt, its secretary and treasurer nnd member of its hoard of directors, has confessed embezzlement. Miss Litihra Foye,lß years o 1 d. da u gta - ter of Charles Foye, a wealthy manufacturer of Boston, jumped from a Fall River steamer and the body washed ashore at Newport. She was despondent over the duplicity and disappearance of her lover, William C. High. ... A veritable dynamite mine was unearthed in the heart of the city of Paterson, N. .1, An Italian named ltnblni had been making dynamite bombs and selling them outside of the city, carrying on his work so secretly that the proprietor of ike saloon, below did not know it. One man is dead, several missing nnd more than sixty persons hear severe injuries, some,, of which may he fatal, as tlie result of the explosion of a burning tank ear filled with gasoline in the Boston and Maine Railroad yards in Somerville, Mass. The property loss is estimated at $50,000. A singular action against tiie child of Dawson Coleman, a multi-millionaire of Lebanon, Pa., has been instituted by a former governess, Maud Hillary. She charges that the child, Dawson Coleman, Who is 7. years old, struck her in the knee with a chair and so injured her that she was unable to walk for eight months.