Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1895 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Harold Ethelbert Addison,, of Chicago, won first prize in the Boylston prize epeaking contest at Harvard University. Manuel Fuentes, the New York World ..correspondent. has .been ordered released by the Cuban authorities on condition that he leaves the island. It is reported at New York that the -Pullman company, in order to escape hostile legislation in Illinois,-will incorporate under New Jersey laws. The Senate at Albany has defeated the New York police reorganization bill. This action is said to be the result of a deal by which the “Greater New York” bill is also to be killed. , A receiver has been appointed in New Jersey for the Columbia Straw Paper Company. of-Clvieagm The liabilities outside of the bonded indebtedness a re $200;000 and available assets $50,000. Dr. Buchanan, whose execution been twice deferred, may remain at Sing Sing some time louger. His attorney claims that he is legally dead and cannot btrelectrocuted, the time set for his execution having passed. President Seth Low has offered to personally assume the cost of the new library bu ild ing for Colmnbla College, est ima ted at about $1,000,000. Trustee AVilliam_C— Schermerhorn agrees to be responsible for a new science building for the college, to cost not more than $300,000. .A special meeting of the executive committee of the Newsdealers, Booksellers and Stationers’ National Association was held in New York for the purpose ot for-" mulating a plan to protect booksellers of the United States against attacks by department store keepers in regard to the cutting of prices hi books. Two sons of Ralph Agnew, of Beaver Falls, Pa., having a burning desire to become contortionists and perform in a circus, set about making their little frames supple. Some one told them if they drank a concoction prepared by boiling angle worms-, they might tie themselves In compact knots or stretch out even as does the worm. They gathered a tomato can full of worms, boiled them over a bonfire and drank the resulting elixir. They have taken on the form of a knot most of the time. The doctor says they nearly died from poisoning, but now they are out of danger and have given up the circus idea.