Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1895 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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The latest report is that Howard Gould is engaged to marry Katherine Clemmons, the actress. John Eisiminger. was hanged at Waynesburg, Pa., for the murder of Samuel McCoy. A Merrimac, Mass., carriage firm has shipped to Constantinople a coupe for the use of the sultan. The General Lutheran Synod at Hagerstown, Md. t adopted a week of selfdenial for the sake of their missions. The hearing in the five suits in equity against the estate of Benjamin F. Butler, aggregating $215,000, has begun at Boston, Mass. By the explosion of a dynamite cartridge used in excavations at Erie, Pa., Charles Ilarrity was killed and four men badly injured. John Mullock, of Fountain Hill, Pa., was shot and instantly killed by Jacob Lucky=lnrtbe presence of the former's ll-year-old son. The murderer then committed suicide. Henry P. Schwartz, a merchant nnd a member of the firm of Charles W. Schwartz & Co., carpet manufacturers, Philadelphia, Pa., committed suicide. Continued illness was the cause. Mrs. Nancy Stark, aged 96, the oldest resident of Mystic, Conn., died Wednesday night. She leaves sixty grandchildren, one of whom is William Stark, Judge Advocate of Nevada. Mrs. Hetty Green has been sued for SIOO,OOO for slander by Miss Mary Irene Hoyt, of New York. The suit grows out of language used by Mrs. Green during the trial of the Robinson estate case. Tinsey McMillan (Mrs. Mark) was examined before a United States commissioner sit Buffalo, N. Y., on the charge of selling "counterfeit stamps. Chicago 'per-' sons appeared as the witnesses against her. The United Electric Securities Companw of Portland, Me., has applied for a receiver for the Louisiana Electric Light pany of Portland, Me., has applied for a with light. Charges of mismanagement are made. The big relay race between Chicago and New York started promptly at 9 o’clock Wednesday morning 1 . Two riders were started in each one of the relays, each man carrying a message to Gen. Nelson A. Miles in New York. At Lenox, Mass.. Miss Florence Adele Sloane was married to James Abercrombie Burden, Jr. The wedding took place at Trinity Church 'and was attended by men and women whose aggregate wealth Is nearly $1,000,000,000. Three men were killed by a rear-end collision at Shamokin, Pa. A Philadelphia and Reading freight ran into a coal train. The wreck occurred on a heavy grade and at a sharp curve in the road, and is one of the worst that have occurred there for many years. About thirty cars were piled on top of each other.