Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1893 — Notes of Current Events. [ARTICLE]

Notes of Current Events.

Boilermakers at Bay City, Mich., struck for a nine-hour work-day. W. B. Rich IE has withdrawn as Democratic candidate for Governor of of Ohio. A receiver was appointed at Denver for the Hamilton Loan and Trust Company. J. A. Ballard's express bam and twenty-one horses burned at St. PauL Loss, $20,000. The O'Brien wagon works at Lafayette, Ind., have been closed because 165 men refused to accept a 10 per cent, reduction. The failure is announced of Sulzbacher, Gitterman & Wade, New York woolen importers. The firm was rated at $1,000,000. A LONE highwayman, operating in a country road in Kansas, has held up and robbed several persons. His victims were nearly all farmers. The works of the American Rubber Company at Cambridgeport, Mass., have closed down for two weeks, throwing 1,700 operatives out of employment. A BLOCK of wooden buildings burned at Yonkers, N- Y., causing a loss of SIOO,OOO. Crocker, Fish & Co., millers at Minneapolis, have filed an assignment to the Minneapolis Trust Company. Their assets and liabilities run about $200,000. Nearly 30,000 spectators flocked to the bearch at, Asbury Park. N. J., tc see the fourth annual baby parade. About 500 babies were wheeled into line. Porter Lankier, a convict in' the Ohio penitentiary, beat John Louders, a citizen shop foreman, into insensibilitj with a pair cf tongs, inflicting dan gerous wounds.