Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1901 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt was christened Muriel, ’ Fire wiped out the principal business section of Mattewmi, N. J., causing a loss of more than SIOO,OOO. Engineer Holland wus probably fatally injured in the wrecking of the Cleveland and Pittsburg flyer.at Gletoficld, Pa. Six hundred Hebrews of New York took an oath to rest not until the murder of Mayer Weissbard has been avenged. New York Phonograph Company has sued Thomas Edison and his various phonograph companies for $225,000 damages. - - - Sixty including many women and children, broke through the ice on a large pond back of Evergreen cemetery, Brooklyn, N. Y., ami in the wild struggle for life two boys were drowned. An explosion of molten copper at the works of the Baltimore Copper Melting and Rolling Company resulted in fatal Injury to Charles Murkey, Patrick Downey, Timothy Chisham and Frank Martin. The nail, wire and rod mills of Newcastle, Pa., controlled by the American Steel and Wire Company, have received orders to resume work as soon as possible. More than 800 men are employed in the three concerns. The Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph is authority for the denjal of the story that the. Carnegie interests have acquired control of the Pressed Steel Car Company. The two companies, it says, hover er, work closely together. Mary Gair, aged 5 years, died in illiamsport, Pa., under peculiar circumstances. During the past two weeks the child had been suffering with eczema, which developed into hemorrhage of the skin—virtually sweating blood. John Zylaukus, a young coal miner, who was missing for over a week in the Green Ridge slope at Scranton, Pa., was found ii; one of the headings acting like n madman. In some unaccountable manner he became lost in the mine. Lola Vernon, 15 years old, of Swarthmore, a suburb of Philadelphia, white skating on Crunnn creek broke through the ice and was drowned. Lynn Merritt ami Foster Harrow, boys, attempted to save the girt; and nearly perished with her. As a result of a friendly boxing match between George R. Ainsworth, a Harvard student, and Curtis L. Crane, of Brookline, Mass., his most intimate friend, the latter is lying dead at the Cambridge morgue. Heart disease caused death. By the death of Beniamin D. Sillimau of Brooklyn, N. Y., Yale will obtain from the estate of his brother, Augustus E. Silliman, an endowment of SBO,OOO for a lectureship to illustrate the presence and wisdom of God as expressed in the works of nature. The loss at sea of a boat's crew of six men from the whaling schooner Chtyles H. Hodgdon of New Bedford, Mass., is reported. The men had put off in chase of a school of whales, but were caught in the school. Before help could reach them they disappeared. Judge John D. Shaffer at Pittsburg, Pa., appointed George C. Johnstone receiver for the Odd Fellows’ Endowment Association of Pennsylvania. The liabilities of the association are $70,000 and the assets $30,000. The association has about 2,000 members. A quarter of a million dollars’ worth of drugs and chemicals was destroyed by fire at 126 and 128 William street, New York. The property was owned by Plant Bros, under the name of Lehn A Fink. Fireman Daniel O'Connell fell headlong from a roof to the rear yard and was killed.