Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1900 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Mrs. William P. Frye, wife of the president pro tern, of the 'Senate, died suddenly at the Hamilton Hotel in Washington, of heart failure. Former Governor Wolcott of Massachusetts died at his residence on Commonwealth avenue in Boston. The decedent nad from a complication of diseases. The strike of 1,700 mine workers employed by the Pennsylvania Coal Company at Pittston. Pa., has come to an end. Superintendent Williams of the company granted the demands of the workers, employing extra help for the dump men. Justice Colt in the United States Circuit Court in Boston decided in favor of the American Bell Telephone Company iu the royalty suit brought by the M estern Union Telegraph Company, lhe ease is known ns the stock ticker case, and has been In the courts since 1804. The umoiiut involved is #12,000,000. Frank 11. Morris of Ohio, auditor of the War Department, was shot and install! Iv killed in bis office in the Winder building in ITtli street. Washington, by Samuel Macdonald, also of Ohio, and formerly a disbursing clerk in Morris office. Muedonuld afterward shot hintself, and also slashed his throat with a penknife. The Hotchkiss Company’s building at Bridgeport, Conn., was destroyed by tire, entailing a loss of SBO,OOO. Besides the Hotchkiss Company the- Ives Manufacturing Company and the Connecticut Clasp Company occupied the burned building, and all suffered a total loss of stock. About 4<K) hands were employed in the building. At Piftstom Pa., there has beeft a cavcin at the Ravine mine of the Pennsylvania Coal Company. The principal street of the city for a distance of thirty feet fell into the mines. Water and gas mains were broken by the gave-in, and water rushed into the mines. Seven houses were badly damaged, and ttie residents of the neighborhood of the cave in are frantic w ith fear lest their homes be precipitated into the mines. ,'J lie collapse was caused by robbing the mine of pillars.