Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1901 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

The attendance at the Pan-American Exposition for the first three months was 2,724,908. Prominent New York- financier declares Rockefeller's wealth has been vastly underestimated, and that it is nearly sl,000,000,000. George H. Holt, well known in banking circles in New York City as a member of the firm of George H. Holt & Go., is dead at his home at Great Neck, L. L He was 59 years of age. Explosion wrecked a block of buildings on laicust street, Philadelphia, causing death of from twelve to twenty persons, injury of fifty more and a panic among residents of the neighborhood for several blocks around scene of disaster. William Wilson of Green Point, L. 1., aud Jesse Wilson of Pittsburg, employed on the Frick building at Pittsburg, in course of erection, were instantly killed. The derrick gave way and the men were precipitated from the sixth to the second .floor, _. .... . . Walter Snider, son of a Standard Oil Company official, was drowned in a pond on the grounds of the Euclid Golf Club nt Euclid Heights, a Cleveland suburb. He was 19 years of age. It is supposed young Snider lost his footing while crossifig the pond. What is believed to have been an attempt to set fire to the new docks of the North German Lloyd line in Hoboken, N. J., was reported to the polite the other night. A night watchman found a pile of papers burning beside the oil house of the line in time to save a conflagration. Joseph Henry’s barn, near Ocean City, Md., was struck by ligbtuing and two of his children were burned to death. Another child was killed anil a fourth rendered unconscious. During the storm a number, of vessels, inclu ling the police boat Nellie Jackson, were sunk and several fishermen lost their lives. Steamboat Island, one of the Apostle group, off Chequamogon bay, Lake Superior, has disappeared. Before the last storm, and for time immemorial, it was a small island of sand and rock overgrown with trees. Now it has gone and a ro.ky reef several feet under water marks its place. It is now a danger to navigation.