Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1902 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

An unidentified man fell dead on the street in New York from starvation. Fire at New York caused a loss of $300,000 to the Hardman, Peck & Co. piano manufacturing plant. Justice Mayer of New York has released Miss Florence Burns, saying there is no evidence connecting her with the death of Walter Brooks, Louis Chamberdon and his wife, who lived at McDonald Station, Pa., were struck by a Panhandle train and killed while returning from an evening call. The four-story brick Deck building in Seneca Falls, N. Y., containing a store and the Hotel Hamlin, collapsed and was destroyed. Four persons were injured. The tobacco storehouse of Schroeder & Aarguimbau of New York, at Warehouse Point, Conn., with 260 cases of tobacco, was destroyed by fire. Loss $75,000, insurance $50,000. Eastern promoters are said to have secured options on some of the largest hardware concerns in the country, including one in Chicago, with a view to forming a $30,000,000 combine. William B. Leeds, president of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, has purchased from the estate of Henry Hilton the famous villa known as Otter Rocks, at Bellhaven, Conn. It is announced by the secretary of the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants that a gravestone of a passenger on the Mayflower has been discovered. It is the only such gravestone known. Coroner Laird at Auburn, N. Y., finds the Aurelius wreck on the New York Central, in which six lives were sacrificed, was due to the recklessness and carelessness of Engineer Durand and Conductor Butler. Joseph Zane, a pauper, has left the almshouse for Boston to secure his share in the estate of an uncle, says a Baltimore special. The estate is valued at $500,000, and the former pauper’s share is estimated at SIOO,OOO. Sixteen valuable horses perished in a fire which destroyed a large stable on the stock farm of Peter F. Collier, proprietor of Collier's Magazine, at his country residence at Eatontown, N. J. The total damage will amount to $50,000. Fritz Trepkan, a merchant of Orange, N. J., has received a letter from a sister from whom he has not heard m fortyeight years and whose whereabouts he did not know. Mr. Trepkan and his sister were both born in Germany. George Johnson of Newcastle, Ta., has recovered bis two boys, lost near Worcester, Mass., by their insane mother. He searched longer than six months for his wife and children. The woman was found, but had forgotten where she left the children. An unknown barge stranded nearBridgehampton on the south shore of Long Island, and went to pieces. The Meco station life-saving crew went to the wrecked vessel, but could find no signs of life there. It is feared that all on board have been lost.