Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1886 — THE EAST. [ARTICLE]

THE EAST.

J. B. Lippikcott, the veteran Philadelphia publisher, is dead.... Henry Cabot i Lodge is to be publisher of the Boston Advertiser and Evening Record, George H. Ellis having resigned. . .Twelve collieries in Mahanoy valley were flooded by heavy rains nnd rising streams,and large sections of Willliam sport and Lockhaven, Pa., were inundated. Tracks were washed out, telegraph poles leveled and several million feet of logs swept away by the floods. In the mines near Haaelton, Pa., twenty-three mules were drowned, and the pumps lost. The Urea in the Bethlehem Iron Works were put out, causing a suspension of operations, and coal and freight trains on the Susquehanna Boad wire al«andoned. In the Wilkesbams district a violent rainstorm

prevailed for twenty-four hours, resulting in a rapid rise of ail streams. Dr. GUnn, chairman of the special investigation committee of the Constitution Club at New York, states that the Trinity Church organization oVns some of the worst tenements in New York City; that it never makes any repairs; and that complaining tenant are told to quit the premises if they do not like them. The Doctor also alleges that the Trimty tenements are of the foulest possible character, and that even the church rents as a saloon a portion of its Laight street property. Dr. E. M. Nelson, President of the West Rutland (Yt.) Marble Company, was arrested for complicity in the embezzlement of funds from the Lancaster National Bank of Clinton, Mass. A detective returned to Boston with about $115,000 in money and securities which he found concealed near Tinmouth, Vt. ...In a difficulty with a landlord at Carbondale, Pennsylvania, George C. Miln, the tragedian - , was struck in the face and thrown off an express-wagon, and retaliated by thrashing his assailant... .The St. James Hotel, at Batavia, New York, valued at $50,000, was burned. Two men received severe injuries by leaping from a fourth-floor window. > A partial division of the Vanderbilt fortune has been made. Four sons and three daughters received $5,000,000 each. The $5,000,000 of Mrs. Seward Webb, who was not present, remains in trust until she is 30 years of age.... The extensive milt buildings in Kensington, near Philadelphia, known as Arrott’s Mills and Beatty’s Mills, and occupying two blocks, were destroyed by fire, involving a, loss estimated at $1,000,000, pretty well covered by insurance. .. .A railway collision at Wilmington, Delaware, wrecked a passenger train and caused the death of an engineer, fireman and brakeman.... It has been decided by the Massachusetts-Supreme Court that the Boston'authorities may prohibit preaching on the Common.