Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1896 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

, A party of sous terry pickers who wera walking dfr the *tr<wue of the llassacbusetts Cehttttr Khlttoad, 1 near Dhkdale, Mass., were overtaken Uy a trriin. and °t them, Eliza and Anna Auger, w«r# iaatawly killed. Alexander Auger, their uncle, was severely hurt about the bead and Jean La Forme, the other member of the party, sustained a fracture of -JMb* broke out Wednesday morning in George W. Piper’s Long Island kindling wood factory r.t Ash street and Newtown Ursek, Brooklyn. The flames quick-

ly extended to the extensive lumbet- yards •of E. C. Smith and from there to llitchie. Brown & McDonald's "iron works, Tost & McCord’s Iron works, and Braun &. Bainbrick’s asphalt works. An estimate of loss has been made ranging from SBOO,000 to $1,000,000. Miss Josephine, daughter of Charles B. Jefferson and granddaughter of Joseph Jefferson, the actor, and Charles J. Rolfe,. son of William Rolfe, the Shakepearean scholar of Cambridge, were married at' Buttermilk Bay, Mass. There were about sixty guests present, among them being Joseph Jefferson and Mrs. Cleveland. ■ Monday afternoon four choir bots and the choirmaster of St. John’s Episcopal Church of Charlestown. Mass., were drdwned in Lake Massapoag. They were members of a party in camp. Mr. Brachtr ett and six boys went out in a boat and when about 400 feet from the shore Harry Parker fell overboard. Frank Cox, 13 ydars old, jumped overboard and rescued Hje boy and swam with him to the shore. During the excitement the bosjt was overturned, and thc«rest perish&l.

The situation at the Pittston, Pa., shaft has undergone no "change. The rescuers continue to work under great difficulties. -Jlie-wtiwM. inunur general, and at the foot of the shaft the loud rumbling noise of falling rock in different parts of the mine can be heard. Thera was another fall which drove the men back. Double timbering is now being resorted to. It is very slow and tedious work, and .even under the most favorable conditions the workers could not hope to.clear a, gangway to where the entombed men are in less than 1 a month. Four boys were drowned and thirteen persons' ■note hurt Monday by the collapse of Sheldon's wharf at Castle Island landing. South Bosion. The citizens were celebrating “Farragut, day” and a large crowd was on the wharf, attracted by the offer of free passage to the island. The boat Ella was about to make fast at the wharf When the I<M) or more on the small landing surged at the outer-side. Immediately that side went down into eight feet of water find completely turned over, throwing seventy-five or eighty persons ipto the bay. Many of the crowd were women and children. The annual depression in manufacturing circles has arrived. At McKeesport, Pa., with the exception of two mills in the butt weld department, the entire plant of the National Tube Works Company, the National Ro,Hing mills, and the W. Dewees’ Wood, Iron and. Steel mills are shut down and 12,000 men are ternporarjly out of employment.’ The tube operations next week, but the rolling mills and Jhe wood plants will be dosed for six or seven weeks. The Braddock wire works, the largest of the plants of the Consolidated Steel and Wire Company, followed the ruling of the wire nail trust and shut down. Both of the Braddock wire mills are now shut down, also the Beaver Falls mill. The suspension at these nulls affects 800 men. who. wi 11 be idle u n til Au gu st. , Harriet Beecher Stowe, the gifted authoress of “Uncle Tom's Cabin” and other works of world-wide reputation, died at ■ her home in Hartford, Conn., ■Wednesday, without regaining consciousness. ' She; passed peacefully away as though into a deep sleep. By her bedside at the time 1 were her son, Rev. Charles Edward Stowe of Simsbury; —her —two daughters. Eliza and Harriet; her sister, Isabella Beecher;Hooker; John Hooker; Dr. Edward B, Hooker, her nephew, who was also her medical attendant, and other relatives. Mis. Stowe begun to fail in 1888. The first alarming symptoms of the breaking up of her faculties, mental and physical, showed itself at Sag Harbor, L. 1., in September, 1888. Her intimate friends and family knew where the trouble lay. but Mrs. Stowe’s condition was such that it was thought advisable to keep it a secret, and it was not until the following year that the truth was told in the public press, and was then not denied by .the family.