Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1898 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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At Boston, the E. Howard Clock and Watch Company, Samuel Little, proprietor, has made an assignment for the benefit of its creditors. Samuel Little and his son, Arthur, also have made individual assignments. The liabilities of the company will reach $500,000. The six-story brick structure on Trinity place, Boston, known as thp architectural building of the Institute of Technology, was damaged SIO,OOO Uy fire. The fire started in the top floor. Students had to run for their lives to the roof, whence they were rescued by firemen. The town of Dover, N. J., and the country within n radius of twenty miles was startled by a series of terrific explosions, the first of which occurred in the Atlantic Kowder Company’s works, and the plant is now a mass of ruins. Six workmen were killed and four others were seriously injured. Lewis Warner, president of the New Hampshire County National Bank of Northampton, Musa., is missing, and a warrant has been Issued for his arrest on a charge of having embezzled large sums of the bank's money. The directors of the bank authorized a statement that the bank would be closed [tending an investigation. Mrs. Marie Vaughan Wilde was married to Henry Siegel, president of the Siegel-Cooper Company of Chicago and New York. Mrs. Wilde’S wedding day chanced also to be the day on which her first novel. "Juleps and Clovers,” was given to the public. Dr. Felix Adler, president of the Society for Ethical Culture, officiated at the wedding, which took place at the home of the bride's cousin, George Chasd, in New York City. The end of the Buffalo elevator pool has come at last. The organization has collapsed, and, for this season at least, will in all probability not be resumed. More than half of the elevator interests were out of it. All canal houses which had uo rail connections were excluded. This step was the death blow to the pool. Some of the canal houses, which had not turned a wheel for fifteen years, were being opened; and the Frontier, which is controlled by James Davidson, offered to Like grain at one-eighth of a cent. A lively tight is anticipated. Lightning played some curious pranks during a recent thunder storm. While the storm was at its height a bolt struck a l>arn on the place of Joseph Beckman at West Hampton, L. 1. Beckman and his 12-year-old sou. Felix, were in the kitchen of their house.-the father bending over the stove cooking their evening meal. The bolt glanced from the barn to the house nnd came down the kitchen chimney, striking Beckman. It took his right foot oft at the ankle joint as if with a knife. It left no mark on his shoe or clothing. His son was stunned and the neighbors who came in found the boy had been made totally deaf. Ida Houston, a white woman, while defending her sister, was shot and fatally wound««d by her negro brother-in-law, Andrew E. Strander, at her home, 8 Arthur street, Pittsburg, Pa. Strander in turn was shot twice by the woman. Strander is said to lie the notorious Taylar Strander of Wheeling, whose brutal murder of his first wife startled the State and caused one of the longest and most celebrated legal battles in the history of Virginia. He finally, after a iong imprisonment, escaped punishment on a technicality. Two years ago he married Kate Houston iu Pittsburg. Later she lieard of her husband's early career and refused to live with him. Strander went to her home, broke in the door and demanded an interview with bis wife. The wife's sister, Ida, confronted him and both began firing their revolvers. Both were wounded twice and both will probably die. Following close upon the sudden death of Cashier Lemuel T. Terry of the Mechanics' National Bank of New Bedford, Mass., comes the startling discovery that he was a heavy defaulter and a suicide. Cashier Terry was found dead in a chair in the directors’ room and the physicians declared death due to apoplexy. An investigation revealing a defalcation rising $125,000, an autopsy was held, and the medical examiner found that Terry had died from cyanide of potassium, taken with suicidal intent. Cashier Terry was of a fine family and was worth $50,000, when, a year ago, he exchanged the position of assistant with Cashier James W. Hervey, who desired to be relieved of responsibility owing to ill health. Terry had made his money iu Calumet and Hecla investments, and his simulations wiped him out. and then he used the bank's money and some $25,000 trust funds t#looging to the Sylvia A. Howland estato, the income of which hns been paid 'o Hetty Green. America's richest wonut.l. The bank is capitalized at $600,000, afld has a surplus of $350,000. William W, Crapo is president, and the directory cotuprises the wealthiest manufacturers- Of the city.