Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1903 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

’ Building trade* tie-up in New York is broken, nearly 50,000 returning to work. Sever* liquidassn continues in Wall street, though selling pressure is congested in a few Issues. Wall street proposes to use all its Influence in favor of a new financial law at the fall session of Congress. Police wore called to New York hospital to quell fight between patients, who broke up furniture and made the room a wreck. Fire destroyed the Now Britain opera house at New Britain, Conn., one of the best known theaters in the State. Loss $50,000. Absence of failures at New York is taken as evidence that brokers had fortified themselves against slinking out in stock market. Judge Kirkpatrick at Trenton, N. J., appointed receiver for Southern Car and Foundry Company, with plants in Alabama and Tennessee. President Koosevelt has ordered the reinstatement of an assistant foreman of the public printing office removed because expelled from labor union. George Wilson, an old resident of Boehcster, N. Y., who was pronounced dead, came to life, suddenly jutniH-d up and swore at the undertaker. Employes at the government printing office at Washington threaten to strike because of the reinstatement of an objectionable assistant foreman. Senator Platt of New York suggests his colleague Aldrich ns Republican candidate for Vice-President, and favors Chicago as next convention city. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Sheldon, whose daughter Edith was recently married in London to Anthony Hope Hawking, returned to New York on the Majestic.

The Mercantile Trust Company of New York has begun suit at Trenton, N. J., to foreclose $15,000,000 mortgage against the United States Shipbuilding Company. Warrants have been issued for the arrest of Park Densmore at Rochester, N. Y., on the charge of forgery and grand larceny. The police say the amount will reach $25,000. Buying of American securities for European aceouut is expected to relieve the situation in. New York and give bankers funds for crop movement without contracting loans. Frank V. l.aßonntie, confidential clerk and bookkeeper for the law firm of-Wil-son A Smith of Buffalo, is reported a defaulter for $300,000 or more, which lie lost in real estate speculation. A federal judge at Brooklyn issued a bench warrant for George W. Beavers, formerly chief of the division of salaries and allowances in the Postoffice Department, on an indictment charging bribery. John Bohee, who was widely known as the "hairless man,” is dead in Wilkesliarre, Pa. He was the marvel of physicians, who tried in vain to account for the absence ol' lutir from his body. As the result of nil automobile accident near Schenectady, N. Y... W. F. Steers and,A. F. Knight have sustained serious injuries. Both men are well known in society circles and Mr. Knight is a well-known golfer. The signing in New York of the arbitration plan of the builders and an agreement on the wage scale for another year by the Bricklayers’ Union, it is said, insures the return to work of 75,000 men and the end of the building trades tie-up. At Cumberland, Mil., William 11. Doerner has been arrested on a warrant sworn out by Clarence Christie, auditor of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroud, charging Doerner with embezzling $17,341 of the company’s funds. Doerner had been cashier for ten years and declares lie is a victim of faulty bookkeeping.