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EASTERN ECHOES. Ex- Congressman Richard H. Stanton died at Mayerville, Ky., Friday, aged 78. St. George's Episcopal church, Beaumont and Cheetnut streets, St. Louis, burned Friday night. Loss, $115,000; insurance, $60,000. At St. Alban, Vt., F. T. Harding, aged 22 years, the husband of a dissolute woman, shot her dead and then killed himself. La grippe is epidemic in Pittsburg, and fully 4000 cases are reported. The disease is far more acute than before known here. Alphonse and Gustave de Reisthal, importers of china and glassware, 55 Murray street, New York, have assigned. Liabilities about $150,000, assets not stated. A large three-masted schooner is reported wrecked between Seabright and Asbury Park, N.J. A severe gale raged along the Jersey coast Friday, and much damage was done. The failure or Theodore Schwartz & Co., bankers, at Louisville, Ky., turns out to be more serious than at first supnot posed. $750,000, The and liabilities it is probable will reach that nearly more than ten cents on the dollar will ever be paid. The negro Lingo, who was suspected two years ago of murdering Annie Le Coney, has been convicted at Camden, N.J., of the murder of Mrs. Miller, the wife of his employer. He assaulted the woman and cut her throat with a razor. A Chicago paper says the Rock Island officials are apprehensive of a change in the management of the road, as advices from New York indicate a well developed plan to place George Gould at the head of the Rock Island, ousting President Cable. A cablegram to the Police Gazette says the Pelican club has offered a purse of £600 for a fight between Ted Pritchard and Jack Dempsey, allowing Dempsey £100 for expenses. G. G. Coleman, of Chicago, claims to have discovered a method of manufacturing white lead in such a cheap, quick way that the trust which now controls the production of that staple, must go to smash. Coleman proposes to form a company and erect a large plant. The Democratic primaries in Chicago, to determine the party candidate for mayor, show that Mayor Cregier has an overwhelming lead, as against ex-Mayor Carter H. Harrison. The latter, however, has already received an independent nomination and announced his intention to run whether nominated by the Democratic convention or not.
