Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1902 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage died* in being unconscious two days. Fire nt Washington, D. C., caused a loss of $60,000 to the American lee Company and other firms. A shower of mud lasting two minutes darkened the sky and spattered windows at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. David B. Hill's boom for the Democratic nomination for President in 1904 was launched at a meeting of Tammany Hall, New York. Frederick Bryton, the well-known actor, who was associated with Clara Morris at one time, is dead at his home in Rochester, N. Y. Mrs. Alda Collins, wife of Elmer I*. Collins, a young farmer of Portville, Del., was murdered and her mutilated body found in a stable.

In course of bitter debate on the subject of. elections Senator Depew announced his purpose to retire from public life at the end of present term. Fire in Brooklyn, N. Y., destroyed the furniture factory of Masel & Huebner and the pipe foundry of David Binns. Several frame tenements were also burned. The loss is estimated at SIIXI.OOO. The engagement of Helen Gorman Wild of Baltimore to Prince Eugene of Sweden, fourth son of the King of Sweden and Norway and hitherto regarded as a possible heir to the throne, seems certain to be fulfilled. Fire which destroyed the Wallace block in Pittsburg drove thirty families from their homes. The block was a 3-story brick. The flames spread with wonderful rapidity and many narrow escapes by the tenants were made. Steps have been taken by the children of Col. John McKee, the Philadelphia colored millionaire real estate dealer, to prevent the registration and execution of the decedent's will, which bequeaths the balk of his $2,000,000 estate to an orphans' home under the control of Archbishop Ryan ami the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church. It is stated that the Allied Securities Company, which was incorporated in New York with $2,000,000 capital, was organized to acquire all the large woven wire concerns in the country. The company, it is said, obtained a controlling interest in the Page Woven Wire Fence Company of New Jersey, which recently acquired the property of the Page Woven Wire Fence Company of Illinois. What is said to be one of the most peculiar death certificates received by the New Y’ork Board of Health in many years has been filed in the case of Mrs. Bridget O’Connell, 62 years old. It states that her demise was due to “apoplexy caused by her husband’s death in the Civil War thirty-eight years ago.” Mrs. O’Connell became paralyzed on one side when she was informed that her husband had lost his life in battle. A second stroke brought death.

W. E. Koch, a jeweler at Y’ork. Pa., has found cash and securities valued at $15,000 in an ol«l chest. Several years ago Koch purchased for a trifling sum fit a public sale a small antique chest. Having no immediate use for it, he placed it in the garret oyer his place of business. Finally he decided to use the box, and upon taking it apart for repairs a false bottom was found, underneath which was found the hidden wealth. The former owner of the chest is unknown. The proudest passenger to walk down the gang plank of the Deutschland when she made her dock in New York was Herbert Cummings, a young mulatto sent over on the same steamer by a florist to decorate the cabin of Prince Henry on bis return voyage from this country. The lad was detailed to attend to the floral decorations on board Emperor William's yacht Hobenzollern while she was in port, and the prince liked him so well that he asked that he be sent to Bremen when he sailed on the Deutschland. At the end of the voyage Prince Henry presented to him a handsome gold watch and chain and gave him a letter of recommendation.