Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1887 — WEEKLY BUDGET. [ARTICLE]

WEEKLY BUDGET.

TEE EASTERN STATES. Lawyer De Lancet, of New York, counsel fc* tfie Kansas Pacific consolidated bondholders who have begun suit against Jay Gould and Bussell Sage for $0,000,003, says that criminal proceedings will also be begun against Gould and Sage under the provisions of the penal code in relation to trustees. He has requested the Pacific Investigation Committee to furnish him with a record of their proceedings, but Commissioner Anderson has replied that the act establishing the commission provides “that the evidence or testimony taken before us shall not be used against the person so testifying on the trial of any criminal proceeding.” Franz Miehof, one of the band of anarchists who have been setting fire to insured housos, their reward being a commission from the owners, has been convicted at New York. William Scharf, the leader of the incendiaries, has escaped. Woodman, True & Co., jobbers in dry goods, Portland, Me., have made an assignment The liabilities are stated at about $350,000. The stock of goods on hand is valued at about $125,000. Sir Bache Cunard claims that his agent, Charles G. Francklyn, whom he has had confined in jail in New York City, is in arrears in his accounts to the amount of 93,000,000. Francklyn’s counsel assert that the men were jointly interested in business ventures in this country, and that Sir Bache is now attempting to escape his sharo of the losses incurred. President Taylor, of the National Temperance League of Great Britain, who has arrived at New York, says that thirty years ago the advocates of temperance there could be counted on one’s fingers, whereas to-day tho movement excites intense interest, and is constantly gaining ground.