Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1902 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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The Minckel Brewing Company of Albany, N. ¥., has made an assignment. Barbers in New York have been forbidden by the health department to use sponges. Fire in Brooklyn, N. Y., destroyed the Shadbolt wagon factory aud other property worth $300,000; and injured fourteen ' persons. Pier G of the Lehigh Valley Railroad at Jersey City and adjoining property and barges were burned, entailing a loss of $250,000. Fire in Paterson, N. J., destroyed twen-ty-six blocks, consuming 500 dwellings in addition to the main business section of the city, nnd causing a loss of $10,000,000. Four children were burned to death in n fire which destroyed the farm house of William P. Robertson, twenty-nine miles east of Cumberland, on the Maryland side of the Potomac river. Two hundred nnd eighty clerks in the census bureau at Washington have been dismissed on account of the gradual completion of the work. There will be a large number of dismissals in the next few weeks. One of the most important social events of the season in Washington took place at noon Thursday., when Miss Helen Hay, daughter of Secretary nnd Mrs. Hay, was married to Payne Whitney of New York City. Ma ria Halpin, who figured iu the first Cleveland campaign, died at her home in New Rochelle, N. Y., where she had been living quietly for several years as the wife of Wallace Hunt. The cause of her death was pneumonia. A colored man met death at Erie, Pa., in a peculiar manner. He wandered into the Edison Electric Light plant, nnd got his head into one of the large rapidly revolving condensing fans. His bead was literally cut from his body. An unknown three-masted schooner was burned at sea. The schooner c,ame to~a point about six miles off shore in a northeast direction from Capp May lighthouse, New Jersey, and was caught iu the Ice fields flowing out of Delaware bay. Foreman Charles Haggerty of the Broadband Construction Company has been arrested at Greenville, Pa., charged with manslaughter. It is claimed he failed to give notice before firing a blast which killed one man and injured ten others. » Rev. T. De Witt Talmage announces the engagement of his daughter Maude to Clarence F. Wyckoff of Ithaca, N. Y. The marriage will be celebrated some time in April. The young couple will make a tour of Japan as part of their wedding trip. About 2:30 o'clock on a recent morning nn attempt was made to rob the Gap National Bank at Gap, Pa., which ended in a lively l exchange of shots between the town watchman. David Stamix, and the burglars. The latter were routed and compelled to flee. An explosion of dynamite in rapid transit subway construction in New York hurled a piece of rock weighing thirty pounds through the plate glass door of the Grand Union Hotel nnd broke several windows in that establishment. Two persons were hurt by flying fragments. Dr. James Edwin Russell, a Brooklyn physician, has made the startling offer of his life to science. Over his signature he invites physicians and surgeons to use his body ns a subject for vivisection for one year's time or until death, if he succumb to the experiments before the expiration of twelve months. After an inquest into the alleged murder ease in which it was claimed that Eli Cameron nnd Edward Draper of Rouse's Point, N. Y., had killed Mrs. Sophia Rock, Cameron's housekeeper, in a quarrel, and then had tried to conceal the crime by setting fire to the camp in which the woman's body had been left. Coroner McMasters has decided that Mrs. Rock died by accident. Cameron and Draper have been released.