Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1895 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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■William Fickhardt,'a wealthy importer of New York city, died at Cologne, Germany. —> — t-1 The employes of the Pennsylvania Wheel Foundry at Altoona have received a 12 per cent increase of wages. The largest lens in the world has just been completed at the Clarke establishment in Cambridge. It is for the great Yerkes telescope and weighs 500 pounds. A two days’ session of the university convocation in the interests of higher and secondary education met at Albany, N. Y., Thursday,. Among the participants were Presidents Harper, of Chicago University; Eliot, of Harvard, and Shurman, of Cornell. Louis M. Cornish, a New York broker, was found dead in the library of his home. There was a bullet hole in his right temple. No motive for suicide was advanced. His physician is said to have remarked that financial difficulties led Mr. Cornish to commit the deed. The American Watch Company of Waltham, Mass., closed its works Friday for three weeks, in accordance with its usual custom of giving its employes an annual vacation. Last year the works were closed for four weeks, but owing to the increased demand for the company’s output it was necessary to curtail the vacation this summer.