Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1902 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Mayor Nowrey of Camden. N. J., ordered the closing of nil saloons until new licenses can be issued. The Depew knitting mill nt Laneaster. N. Y., burned, causing a loss of $50,000, with $30,000 insurance. At Baltimore, Md., fire in the umbrella mantifnetory of Gans Brothers did $200,000 damage to the building and stock. The will of Paul Leicester Ford, the author who was killed last May by his brother, disposes of an estate valued at $214,601. It is reported that 11. C. Frick, because of bitter rivalry with Mr. Carnegie, will give Pittsburg a great university and endow it with $2,500,000. Septimus Winner, composer of ‘‘The Mocking Bird” and hundreds of other popular songs, died suddenly at his Philadelphia home. He “was 76 years old. Negotiations are under way whereby miners in the anthracite regions may settle their differences with operators outside of the commission appointed by the J'resident. . :—X...... i As n result of injuries received in a football game at .Newark on Nov. 3 Rudolph Klett of the Xavier Athletic Club team, Elizabeth, N. J., is dead. He was injured internally. James Stillman, president 6T the National City Bank of New York, has presented SIOO,OOO to Harvard University for the endowment of a professorship in comparative anatomy. Carrie Nation visited the Now York horse show in Madison Square garden, harangued Mrs. Alfred (J. Vanderbilt, Reginald Vanderbilt and their guests on extravagant dress, mid was put out. Through the arrest of two anarchists, who were engaged in n fierce tight near the downtown headquarters of -the reds in New York, the police believe they have discovered a [Jot for the assassination of’President Loubet of France. By the blowing up of a locomotive at Mineral Point. I'a., two men were killed and throe injured. The locomotive was in the rear of a freight train helping push it up the western slope of the Allegheny Mountains when, without warning, the boiler exploded. News of a bold robbery, in which $14.DOO worth of dry goods were taken from the basement of the building in Grand street. New York, occupied by Steinhardt & Strnsbourger, was made public by a member of the firm. The store is half a block from a police station. Thomas V. Lawson, the Boston copper magnate; Henry C. Frick, the Pittsburg steel manufacturer, and J. Pierpont Morgan have formed a syndicate to build immense steel and copper mills at North Tonawanda, N. Y., which will rival anything of its kind in the country. 'Traction car No. 12 on the Avalon line, city bound, jumped the track at the corner of Jackson and Fremont streets, Allegheny, l‘ii., dashed over the curb, mid was overturned. 'There were about thir-ty-five people aboard mid all were badly shaken up and more or less hurt, but only six were seriously injured. A block and a half of property was almost entirely destroyed, several persons hnd narrow escapes from cremation, and SI2S,(MX) worth of damage was done by n fire which started on Main street, in the business t- -ctiou of Monongahela, I’m, shortly before midnight, and burned until 4 o'clock 'Thursday morning. Mrs. Lillian Constance Voorliis-Lyon, the former society matron who has been a singer in n comic opera chorus, is recovering in the prison ward of the Bellevue hospital. New York, from the effects of a dose of 100 half-grain tablets of morphine. She will be arraigned on a charge of attempting to commit suicide. Botii branches of the Vermont Legislature have passed n local option high license bill with referendum attached after defeating several amendments, and the bill will be submitted to a vote of the peojde on the first Tuesday in January. The amendment to allow women to vote on the referendum was defeated, 138 to 67. In Pittsburg papers were signed completing the combination of the Union Steel Company's works at Donora, owned by the Mellon interests and \V. 11. Donner, and the Sharon Steel Company’s interest, control of which is owned by John Stevenson, Jr., William Flinn, George W. Darr and others. The new company will be known as the Union Steel Company and will be capitalized at SSOjXM).OOO.