Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1886 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THU KANT. At the trial in New York of Arthur J. McQnade, one of the boodle Aldermen, complete details of the Broadway Railroad bribery were given by ex-Alderman Fullgraff. At an informal meeting held in his office in 1884, by thirteen members of the board, it was stated that $22,000 would be given to each for a franchise, but the amount was subsequently reduced. Witness received for his vote SIB,OOO at the hands of Mr. Keenan, who had been agreed upon as the disburses A STRIKE in which 20,000 cotton operatives will take part, will be inaugurated at Fall River, Mass., within a month, unless the manufacturers grant an increase in the wages of their employes... .Freitag's embroidery factory, at Jersey City, was destroyed by fire. Loss, $150,000; fully insured. Archbishop Corrigan, of New York, in his pastoral letter on the proceedings of the Archdiooesan Synod, warns the people to be on their guard against certain unsound principles and theories which assail the rights of property, as they are. to-day proclaimed and espoused by many who would not willfullv advocate what is wrong. He points out what he claims to be the fallacy of these theories, and advises the people’ to jely on the teachings of the church. ... .The will of Francis W. Tracey, after a contest of several months, was admitted to S rebate at Buffalo. The estate is valued at I.OOO,(KKt. and was contested by his only daughter, who was put of with an allowance of SIO,OOO. - -v