Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1888 — THE WORLD AT LARGE. [ARTICLE]

THE WORLD AT LARGE.

Two fire horrors are reported from points in British America. At Bathurst, New Brunswick, two girls aged thirteen and eleven were burned to death in the absence of their mother, and in Orilla, Ontario, three smaller children perished in a burning house. The Government secret-service officers express confidence that they have located the main source of supply of the counterfeit silver certificates that have been so extensively circulated in Chicago, and that they will be able to take care of the dangerous forgeries. The annual report of the Bell telephone company shows the net earnings to be $2,210,597, and the surplus Dec. 31 to be $2,029,(35. Dividends of 16 per cent wero declared. The manufacturers of “pure” lard are appalled at the consequences of the Congressional investigation set on foot with a view to giving them an advantage over the producers of “refined” lard. Statements most damaging to the pork and lard trade have been brought out in the course of the inquiry, and the House Committee is in receipt of a large number of telegrams urging that the hearing be closed and the bill abandoned. A Washington dispatch says that the request has been complied with. C hables E. Cboss, President, and Samuel C. White, Cashier of the National Bank of Raleigh, N. C., have been arrested at Toronto, Canada, on the charge of forgery. Inside the lining of Cross’ overcoat $9,459 was found, and in White’s outer garment $15,255 was discovered. Cross and White, the fugitive officers of the State National Bank of Raleigh, N. C., telegrapbel from Toronto that they were ready to return. They have been indicted for forgery by the grand jury at Raleigh.