People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1895 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

We clip the following from the New York Sun concerning the robbery of the Brill Bros, store. Max Brill was a few years ago a clerk in Ralph Fendig's store here and is therefore well known to many of our readers: “Fpr the second time in six months Brill Bros., dealers in men’s furnishing goods at 211 Sixth avenue, have been the victims of an adroitly executed robbery. Thieves broke into the store sowe time between 1 o’clock on Tuesday afternoon and 8 o’clock yesterday morning by way of the transom over the front door. The fact that the corner of Fourteenth street, near which the store is, is brilliantly lighted did not in the least deter the robbers. They stole about #3OO worth of canes and umbrellas, gold lockets and watch charms, and several gross of silk handkerchiefs. The robbery was discovered at 8 o’clock yesterday morning by Max Brill. The other robbery of Brill Bros, store was on May 26. when burglars bored through the waljp of the fourth story of the ad-' joining house. They broke; open the safe and got S9OO in cash and #SO in stamps. It was thought that “Sheeney Mike” and his gang were the thieves, but after their arrest they were discharged for lack of evidence.

The public installation of the officers of the Masonic and Eastern Star Lodges at their lodge room last Thursday evening, was one of the most pleas ant affairs of the holiday season. It afforded entertainment to about one hundred and .fifty spectators among whom were a number of holiday visitors. The services opened with the installation of the Eastern Star officers