Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1895 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

A heavy frost, destructive *©-crops and fruits, visited Southwestern Pennsylvania Thursday night. The Grand Union Hotel a t Congers;'Nr Y., caught fire and,, with its eoutents, was totally destroyed. Loss, $85,000. The Ingrain Carpet Weavers, of Philadelphia, who Went strike .. .several weeks ago for an increase of 7 per cent, in wages, have won the tight. Forest fires are raging in Southern New Jersey. Hundreds of miles have already been burned over, houses and live stock consumed, and it is feared there has been considerable loss of life. The American Spirits Manufacturing Company, the reorganized whisky trust, filed a certificate of incorporation •at Albany, X. Y„ paying therefor a tax of $43,750. The company’s capital is placed at $35,000,000, of which $2Si00llj)00 Is common and $7,000,000 preferred stock. A man giving the name of Henry Lindlinger, of Chicago, bound for New York, apparently, about thirty years of age, was taken in custody by. the conductor of a West Shore train shortly after leaving Buffalo. When sitting in his seat he Suddenly threw his pocketbook and satchel through a car window, and "grabbed the satchels of Several other passengers and treated them in like manner. An explosion at furnace 11. of the Carnegie Steel Company, nt Braddock, Pa., at 5 o'clock Tuesday morning killed six men, injured ten more and destroyed $30,000 worth of property. Five of the injured will die. All of the killed and injured were Hungarians, except James Harrison, the foreman. The explosion was due to a “hang” in the furnace, which suddenly loosened and dropped into the molten metal below, generating an immense quantity of gas so suddenly that it could not escape by the ordinary means and the explosion followed. The terrible Joss of life was due to a peculiar cause A few minutes before the explosion occurred one of the top fillers dumped a barrow of material into the bell of the furnace, which he had forgotten to raise. This clogged the top of the' furnace and prevented the gas escaping. A gang of sixteen men, in charge of James Harrison, was sent at once to the top to remove the obstruction. All were closely crowded around the bell of the furnace removing the material when there was a terrific explosion and men, barrow, tools and material were hurled in all directions. Flames, deadly gases and sawke belched from the furnace-top, and then men fell as if shot. Only one man was killed instantly.