Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1887 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THK EAST. A TELEORAM from Philadelphia reports that the Supreme Court of that State, has just decided the Pennsylvania prohibitory oleomargarine law to be constif.itioual. The result of this is that the mere holding of imitation butter in that State will subject the party to a criminal prosecution. Flames at Lock Haven, Pa., destroyed Kreamer's building, valued at $75,000.... The New York Chamber of Commerce adopted resolutions approving the interstate conimerce bill except the provision prohibiting greater charges for a shorter than for a longer haul and the one prohibiting pooling. Henry Morris, principal in the Now York Filtering Manufacturing Company, at Woodbridge, N. J., has disappeared, after having destroyed the boons and accounts of the concern. He is accused of forgery, is said to have carried off s4(>.<ljM l in cash, and has floated paper to the extent of nearly SIOO,OOO. An examination of the premises in Philadelphia where Joseph Perry and Richard Price were frozen to death revealed cash and other effects to the value of SIOO,OOO. They had been living in comparative poverty,’ and died because of their penury.... ■ The largest finished diamond in the United States, known as “The President,” valued at $45,000. was offered in the Tombs Police Court, New York, as bail for a saloon-keeper, and tahen as security... The convicts in the New Jersey penitentiary were found with jewelers’ saws, which had been smuggled in to them in plugs of tobacco. They were sawing the bars preparatory to a wholesale escape when the plot was discovered. . . .At New Haven, Conn;, several railroad officials were fined SSO each for “blacklisting” a former employe. They took an appeal.