Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1900 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Fire destroyed property valued at $50,000 at Seaford, Del. I’rof. George L. Farnham of Riverside, Cal., died at Binghamton, N. Y., aged 70 years. Fire in the O’Gorman Company’s department store in Providence, R. 1., caused a loss estimated at $50,000. Plot to kill all the rulers of the world, which was formed in New York and Paterson, N. J., has been discovered. At Dunkirk, N. Y„ Bertha Baldwin. <1 years old, was fatally burned. Her clothing was deliberately set on fire by a boy companion, who put a match to her dress. A coroner's inquest held on the body 6T the son of Carl Schurz of New Yorjt, who died alone in his hoarding house, resulted in a verdict that death was caused by heart disease. ’The miners’ strike in the Georges Creek, Maryland, district, which has been on since April, has been broken by the return to work of over 1,000 men. Those who remain out threaten trouble. Because one of their number was discharged, the driver boys at No. 2 shaft of the Susquehanna Coal Company at Nanticoke. Pa., went on strike. The mine is idle and 400 men are out of work. Three persons were seriously injured nnd six others badly cut and bruised by the falling of five heavy pieces of structural iron from the top of a twelve-story building in course of coi/truetion in New York. / The body of John Trader, who had been missing from his home at Port Elizabeth, N. J., since last March, was found in a swamp near Bridgeton. The head had been cut from the body and carried away. During n game of baseball between the Homewood Athletic Club team and the Lawrenceville Grays at Homewood. Pit., a foul tip struck Catcher Charles Snyder, of the Homewood Club, over the heart ami killed him. ~ A leaky gas pipe was the primary canze of an explosion at Scranton, Pa,, which caused injury to nearly twentyfive persons, wrecked two buildings in the business part of the city and caused a property loss of upward of $150,000. A bomb was accidentally exploded in a vault of the old City Hall, now used as a recorder’s court, in Paterson, N. J. The report caused a sensation, and a rumor that anarchists had attempted to wreck the City Hall quickly became current. A mysterious explosion that caused the death of one Hungarian and the fatal injury of another took place at the Alpha cement works below Philipsburg, N. J. The flame of an exposed torch on one of their caps is believed t<7 have eatised the dust to explode. Fire in Buffalo, N. Y.. destroyed seven buildings occupied by business houses. Tlie loss was $150,000. Fire Captain Charles Beshnebn was severely injured and Fireman It. A. Reid was less seriously hurt while fighting the flames. Six of the buildings belonged to tile Jacob Dold estate. The" New York JimrirnTTilfiT Advertiser says that one of three leather mail poilehe* in transit from the general postolli. e e, 11. at Filth avenue and 1311, streel, that city, was robbed of more titan ;<2S,iMM) in drafts, checks and cash. Payment on the paper has been stopped.