Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1884 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. WHDUB going to church at Erie, Pa., Adam Brabender, President of the wrecked Erie County Savings Bank, was arrested on the charge of having embezzled the funds of the institution, $150,000, and was committed in default of SIOO,OOO bail.... The millinery house of S. & J. Sommerich, of New York, has failed for $90,000. The paper of J. de Riviera & Co., sugar-dealers in the same city, has gone to protest, but they claim that with $1,000,000 in goods on hand they will soon be able to resume.... The Toronto champion lacrosse team defeated the Americans, just returned from Europe, at New York. — ——— A TORE broke out in a bakery at Bradford, Pa. Mrs. Reibley and her two children and a Swedish servant girl perished in the flames. A gentleman named Clark, of Denver, Colo., made a heroic attempt to rescue Mrs. Reibley. Two women were badly injured in leaping from the burning building. The dry goods firm of Halstead, Haines & Co., of New York, made'an assignment with preferences of $417,000. Liabilitiw are estimated at from $1,000,000 to $2,000,* 000. The failures are also announced of John W. McFarland, an iron manufacturer of Alliance, Ohio, and J. M. Hamburger, a picture dealer of New York.... The weekly statement of the New York banks shows a gain of $7,550,900 in reserve, bringing their surplus above the legal requirement by $23,861,500, the largest amount of idle money for years... .Prof. Packard, acting President of Bowdoin College. died suddenly.. . The damage by fire at warn & Co.’s furniture factory, Williamsburg, N. Y., is estimated at $300,000.