Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1901 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Fire in the building of the Holbrook Grocery Company at Keene, N. H., caused a loss of about $75,000; insurance, $40,000. Bev. J. G. Merrill, D. D„ has been elected president of Fisk University to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Dr. E. M. Cravath. William Francis Palmer, editor of the Ice Record, died in a Philadelphia trolley car so peacefully that his daughter, who sat beside him did not know it. The machine shop of the American Machine and Foundry Company at Hanover, Pa., was destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at from $75,000 to $125,000. At Pittsfield, Mass., in the Fosburg trial Judge Stevens instructed the jury to bring in a verdict of not guilty, and this was done, ending the trial. The jurymen did not leave their seats. George Young, a barber of Ilion, N. Y., was shot dead by Henry Brown, as a result of a quarrel over a debt of sl6 which Young alleged was owed him by Brown. Both men bore excellent reputations. Dr. M. A. Arnholt, former member of the Legislature and one of the most prominent physicians in Pittsburg, shot himself through the heart. The suicide was the result, it is supposed, of ill health. F. C. Hohman, engineer on a local passenger train on the Baltimore and Ohio Railway, was pinned beneath his engine and instantly killed near Sykesville, Md. The fireman, G. W. Hobday, was seriously hurt. The cooperage plant of Proctor Brothers and the stave-drying shed of the White Mountain Freezer Company and seven tenement houses were burned at Nashua, N. H., causing a loss estimated at $200,000. Several suspension rotis of the north cable of the Brooklyn bridge were discovered to be broken. Car service and team traffic were suspended as a precautionary measure until it was ascertained the damage was slight. The whaleback barge Sagamore was sunk in a collision with the Northern June steamer Northern Queen near Point Iroquois, Lake Superior. Of the crew of eight men two were drowned and one is missing. There was a dense fog at the time of the collision. Lewis Silva, a wealthy New York machinery broker, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. He was a widower and had two children in a boarding school out of the city. At Mr. Silva's place of business it was said that he had suffered no reverses in business. Yale University authorities annoui.ee that a gift of $25,000 Ims been promised by Mrs. John >B. Newberry of Detroit for the construction of the Newberry memorial organ in the Yale Memorial Hall, ip honor of her son, who graduated in the class of 1885 from the Sheffield Scientific School. The Pittsburg Wire and Steel Company, a new concern, will make application to Gov. William A. Stone of Pennsylvania, Aug. 14, for a charter of incorporation. The proposed corporation is to have a capital stock of $2,900,000, and will, it is said, build one of the largest and most complete independent plants in the world.