Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1901 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Sigmund Hertz, alleged forger of Naw York, was arrested on landing nt Queenstown. John Wiser was swept (over Niagara Falls and his companion, Joseph Marsh, narrowly escaped the same fate. Schooner A. T. Coleman was wrecked at Atlantic City, but the officers and crew were rescued by the life savers. 1 Elias. Masuras, a Greek, has revealed to the officials of Yonkers, N. Y., an alleged, anarchist plot to kill prominent Apicrieans. Miss Alla Rockefeller, daughter of John D. Rockefeller, the Standard Oil monarch, and E. Pnrmalee Prentice of Chicago, were married Thursday in New York. , Frederick A. Gilbert, president of the' Boston Electric Light Company and a millionaire, dropped dead of apoplexy while dining with friends at the New York Club. Ati old five-story building in East Twenty-third street, New York, which was being reconstructed and modernized, cotTiipseil” ii tnL tWo men were instant ly killed by being buried under falling bricks. Prof. J. G. Gerberich, owner and priu cipal of the Lebanon Business College at Lebanon, Pa., is missing and there is evidence of foul play and Suicide. It is known that FroL G.-rberi< li ts heavily in volvcd financially. A head-on collision betweeli freight trains on the Grand Trunk Kailroad near Locks Mill, .Me., resulted in the death of four meu and serious injury of several others, and four locomotives ami twelve cars were demolished. Frank Hartley and Forrest Hawkins, two young electricians of Greenport, L, 1., claim to haw discovered a method of telephoning without wires over a long distance. The inventors dbeliuo to go into details at this time. Fire in the three-story structure .at 8)7 silt Fourteenth street, Northwest, Washington’, cause I a loss of sl2<t,(mo. The building was owned and occupied by the Pope Bicycle Manufacturing Company. which used the first floor. Henry Mayhew's store at Grund Mapa isr-<»m I he -uor-tli shore of Lnke-Hapto-rior, one of the famous landmarks, was destroyed by tire. Mr. Mayhew had made a very vi luable collection of Lake Superior stone- which went in the fire. ‘'Didn't I' bounce, though?” said 6yeiu old Anthony Hall when a terrified passerby pickid him up after a fall from the third-story window of T 26 East Tltif'ty eighth street, New York. The little fellow has a tinctured skirfl, but there is chance for his life. George A. 1 tiller A Co., the Chicago contractors, have secured the contract for the erection of the big H. C. Frick office building at Pittsburg, Pa. Th<* building will Le twenty-two stories high ami the contract price is between sl,500,000 and s2,oon,otM). The four story factory of Darby & Sou. inanufm titiers of wire work, in Philadelphia. and the tinware manufactory of C. E. Porter, adjoining, were damaged by fire, causing an estimated loss of S7S,(MM). William Mills, a fireman, was seriously injured by falling bricks. More than SO.otM) pension claims in the oilice of Milo B. Stevens A Co., Washington. D. <'., were destroyed in the lire. Many of the papers were to he used us evidence in a!tempting' to secure favorable action by the pension office on claims, and cannot be replaced. Iu New Haven. Conn., Henry Lie Root was found lifeless in the snow, his hands clutching a bottle of carbolic acid, the contents of which he had swallowed, lie is the third Yale man whose life has been sacrificed in two weeks owing to severe mental strain and insomnia.