Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1887 — WEEKLY BUDGET. [ARTICLE]

WEEKLY BUDGET.

THE EASTERN STATES. An assignment has been made by Searle, Vaunemau A Co., jobbers of notions and white goods at Philadelphia. They owe #265,000, bat the ameunt of their assets is not known. The death is announced at Philadelphia of General T. K. Smith, who was chief of General Grant’s staff at the close of the war. Hknby Ives, of railroad notoriety, was arrested at New York upon a warrant sworn out by Julius Dexter, President of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad, alleging that in June last Ives appropriated a draft for #IOO,OOO which belonged to the railroad company. Ives was held on #25,000 bail, his sister furnishing security. • Joseph Knight, a man with almost snowwhite hair and gray beard, is under arrest at Philadelphia on a charge of stealing from #60,000 to #70,600 from the Manufacturers’ National Bank, by which he had been employed aa book-keeper for thirty-five years. Although always considered a trustworthy man, it is. said that Knight had been robbing th 3 bank for twenty fi /* years.