Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1900 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

Fire at Glens Falls, N. Y., caused a loss of SIOO,OOO. / Miss Flossie'Swetluud of Fredonia, N. Y., was drowned at l’Ut-in-Bay while bathing. Mrs, Cuwocho, wife of the Mexican Minister of KailroadS, died suddenly on a train near Jersey City. Gus Kuhlin-was knocked out in the sixth round of bis fight with ex-Cbampiou Bob Fitzsimmons in New York. ■ Lightning at New York strikes nine persons who had sought refuge under a tree and iifrshes to avoid a storm. Four of them died. An explosion in a.paint store at Rochester, N. Y., stalled a tire which did $40,000 damage, and for a time threatened lite business part of the city. Mrs. Bessie Krulewiteh, wife of a Well-to-do New York real estate dealer, while riding in a street ear hud a diamond earring valued at S7OO torn from her ear by a ruffian, who then sprung from the ear to the street and mixed in with the crowd. Fifteen persons were -killed- instantly and ten others were seriously injured in a grade crossing accident three miles east of Slatington, Pa. A passenger train on the Lehigh and New England Railroad crashed into an omnibus containing twen-ty-eight persons. Almost the entire plant of the Pittsburg Reduction Company’s aluminum works at New Kensington, Pa., was destroyed by a tornado. The loss is estimated nt not less than SIOO,<MK) and will entail the closing down of the works for an indefinite period. Another step in the plan to rehabilitate the old publishing firm of Harper & Brothers was taken when the big plant was sold under foreclosure, being bid in by Colonel Harvey as agent of the receiver, the Morton Trust Company. The sale includes the entire property. John W. Burger, a well-known farmer living near Erie, Pa., was found 'lying in bis buggy from the effects of w pistol shot in the head. He had been shot while driving along the-road and his body fastened to the buggy seat with a strap. He died without reg.lining consciousness. John Burns, Jersey City's, boy pirate, is locked up in a cell iii police headquarters bui'ding. Details of a plot in which he was the head center came to light. involving among other matters the kidnaping of Millionaire John D. Rockefeller for the purpose of holding him for ransom. William B. Leeds of New York, chairmnn of the American Tinplate Company, whose wife secured a divorce in thirty minutes in Chicago, was married two days later, and gave his new wife half a million dollars’ worth of wedding gifts. Slie'is the daneiii. i of the 11vasm-er of the Forest Citv Slone Company of Cleveland. Paul J.iii'i n, who was arested in East Rutherford, N. J., three weeks ago charged witli counterfeiting, hanged himself in his cell in the Hudson County jail. He tore his coat into strips, which be twisted into a rope and fastened to the bars of his cell door. Then tying the end about his neck he threw his weight oa the cord and strangled to death.