Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1885 — THE EAST. [ARTICLE]

THE EAST.

At the Barbour Flax Spinning Works at Paterson, N. J., 1,400 spinners struck for an increase of 10 per cent. In wages to equalize reductions made within two months... .The overseers *f Harvard College have ‘ refused to grant the petition of undergraduates that attendance at morning prayers be made optional.... Fire destroyed the new Buffalo Morning Express Bkx*k, with all its contents, .causing a loss of $233,000, with an insurance of $221,000. A New Yoke telegram announces the death of Dan Mace, the famous driver. He wns born at Cambridge, Mass., May 28, 1834, and his father, after whom he was named, was a horseman before him. The senior Dan Mace was the proprietor of a livery stable in Boston, and little Dan used to ride running races under his instruction.... An old lady named Sands died in Westchester County, New York. She was supposed to be poor, but $30,000 was found concealed in her skirts, and bank-books showing that she had deposits to the amount of $210,000 besides. Her heirs are four nephews, one of whom lives in Chicago... .Four persons lost their lives in a burning building on a farm near Beading, Pa. It is thought the fire was of incen-* diary origin, and a man suspected of the crime is locked up.