Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1902 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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William Allen Butler, lawyer and author, is dead in Yonkers. A boat loaded witli dynamite sailed from New York, bound, it is thought, for Colombia. Charles-*Alexander Perry, successfully navigated the Niagara whirlpool rapids in a boat, i The plant of the Campbell Wall Pape/ Company at Bogota. N. J„ was destroyed by lire. Loss $175,000. Five freight wrecks occurred Sunday between Johnstown and Harrisburg on the Pennsylvania Railroad system. Returns from the Maine election radicate a Republican majority of 22,000. Prohibition question stimulated the voting. The plant of the Hartford Foundry Company ut Hartford, Conn., was damaged by fire to the estimated extent of $75,000. Maj. Charles A. Smylle was taken, at a distance, for a deer in the Adirondaeks and shot to death by Judge C. I‘. Storrs of Orange. N. J. Frank Tonsey. the founder of Judge and a nephew of the late Sinclair Tonsey, founder and president of the American News Company, is dead in New York City from pleurisy. Wilson F. Thrall, an optician, 74 years obi, died at Danbury, Conn., from starvation. He declared two months ago thut he would eat no more and refused food after that except when forced to eat. Eight thousand carpenters of New York City won their strike for an advance of 50 cents a day when flic Master Carpenters’ Association, after a conference of seven hours, granted the demand. Death and probably fataj injuries were allotted to two Italian striking miners ut Wiikesbarre, Pa. They were attacked by pickets, who ignored their claims to utliliation and beat them down with rocks and, club*. John C. Lehnemann was shot in the abdomen during a quarrel by his sun-in law, James C. Duane, a prominent business man of Boston and Brookline, and died. The shooting is said to have been the outcome of a series of family quarrels. Dr. I). S. Waterous of Chicago died at St. Joseph's hospital, Syracuse, N. Y., from the effects of a dose of morphine. It is believed the poison was taken with suicidal intent, as the dead man left a letter in which he said he was tired of life. One of the powder magazines at old Fort Winthrop, on Governor’s Island, upper Boston harbor, blew up with a detonation thut was heard at points twenty miles away. One dead man and five injured were taken to Boston by the police boat. The Overbrook mills at Philadelphia, Pa., operated by Rosenheim Brothers At Co., manufacturers of tapestries, and owned by the Haverford Building and Loan Association, were destroyed by tire of unknown origin. The loss was estimated at $50,000, insured. While on the way to New York from Kansas City, Mo., in the custody of a detective, Henry Neuman jumped through the window of an express train going at the rate of fifty miles an hour, on the New York Central Railroad, and was so badly hurt that he will die. Frederick Hall White, 18 years old. heir to a fortune of $3,000,000, lias been lost in the Maine woods since Aug. 20. His father, Josinh J. White of Brooklyn. does not know whether the young man has met with a mishap, is wandering helplessly about or is only hiding to escape returning to college. The National Candy Company, with an authorized capital stock of $0,000,000. lias been incorporated in New Jersey end has- filed its articles of incorporation -with the clerk of Hudson County, N. Y. The incorporators are Henry Semple Ames, St. Louis; Frank W. Reid, George B Goodwin, Edward S. Rogers, Samuel E. Hall, Chicago, and Frank P. McDeruiot, Jersey City.