Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1901 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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British schooner Lillie was lost on the coast off Orleans, Mass., but the crew ear caped. The certificate of incorporation of the Von Wagner Company of Cleveland, O'., capital $750,000,, has been filed at Dover, Del. A trust has been formed to control nearly all of the slate output of the famous Pen Argyl and Bangor quarries in Pennsylvania. 2 ' At least a score of children are dead as the result of a fire that destroyed the hospital section of the Rochester, N. Y;, Orphan Asylum. Seventy-five per cent of the striking structural steel workers of Pittsburg will resume work, several firms having acceded to their demands. Wells-Fargo express, No. 14, on the Erie Railroad, struck a wagon at Meadville, Pa., killing the occupants, A. J. Holland and Charles Seeley, The residents of' the prohibition State of Maine last year legally consumed 11,955 gallons of liquor, according to the reptirUof the State Liquor CouHnissimier. Arthur Westbrook, 35 years old, a lawyer of Kingston, N. Y., died at the Roosevelt hospital, New York, from heart disease resulting from an overdose of trional. _£L_ A. . NotL faaudtJL .Xaill . E d gli r G. Gould, proprietors of the Butterfield House at Utica, N. Y., have filed petitions in bankruptcy, scheduling liabilities of $77,205. Edwin L. Horseman, wholesale and retail dealer in toys, kites, etc., of New York, has filed a petition in bankruptcy, with liabilities reported at $1841,000 and assets $172,000. The Glasgow Manufacturing Company, which operates a cotton mill at South Hadley, Mass., has been placed in the hands of a receiver. The liabilities are about SIOO,OOO. An explosion of natural gas at Coffeyvill e, rn., th a idenio 11 sh cd Thc troine of A. M. George seriously injured George and his wife and fatally hurt -William Coons, an elderly man. Sylvanos Grace, living at Newport, N. J., in an angry mood picked Up his child and it il own on~if li of stVive, btirifing it in a horrible manner. Not satisfied with this, he bit a hole through the child’s In Buffalo .the Holland and Howard buildings, six story structures devoted to light manufaeturing~and mercantile business, with their contents, were damaged by tire and water to the extent of $130,OtMl. Because the Elk 14111 Coal and Iron Company, Scranton, I’a., refused to give a driver boy the rate of wages to which he claimed ho was entitled the SOO employes of the company went out on a strike. The big task of moving the United States mint from its present site at Juniper and Chestnut streets. Philadelphia, to the magnificent new building at Sixteenth and Spring Garden streets has been begun. Engineer E. McMaster was killed, Fire_man Patrick-Squire fatally injured and Superintendent John Miller quite seriously hurt by the explosion of a freight locomotive on the McGees and Newtonburg lumber road in Clearfield County, Pa. The failure ot the Dingley Woolen Mills Company was announced in Philadelphia. Its affairs were so mixed up w ith those of George Campbell of shoddy blanket notoriety that it waa found necessary to place the mills in the hands of a receiver.