Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1895 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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It la alleged that a number of smugglers of tobacco from Canada to the United States, at Rouse's Point, N. Y„ have been detected by -customs officers, and many arrests will follow. Vicar General J. J. Kennedy, of the see of Syracuse,- N. Y., has been invested ■with tire title of monsignor, the- honorcoming from Pope Leo XIII., on the recommendation of Bishop P. A. Ludden. Justice O’Brien, of the New York Supreme Court, has issued a temporary injunction to prevent the whisky trust reorganization committee from 'acquiring stock under the reorganization agreement. At Brooklyn an extensive fire was startled Thursday-noon by the explosion in the Columbia stores at the Toot Of Atlantic avenue. Bear’s wharf adjoining was destroyed before the flames were checked. A ship also burned. i 4 Henry G. Clark, 15 years old, was in the Municipal Court at Chelsea, -Mass., charged with breaking and entering. His case was continued in order to permit State Fire Marshal Whitcomb to prefer more serious charges against him. By his own confession the boy is one of the most dangerous firebugs im, Massachusetts. Last spring he started fires that caused a loss of more than $50,000. Eugene Blumenthal, a brother of the playwright, Oscar Blumenthal, committed suicide by taking poison in his room in the Great Northern Hotel, New York. Blumenthal had been ill for some time and unable to procure employment. A letter was found addressed to the coroner. It was dated July 29. In it Blumenthal stated that he intended taking his life, and asked that his body be given to some medical college fo'f study. The Hamilton Savings Fund and Loan Association, Pittsburg, with a’ capital stock of $30,000,000, was closed by the State bank examiners, and the Union Trust Company placed in charge as temporary receivers. The liabilities, according to the officers of the association, are. but $9,000 and the assets SII,OOO. The association is a national concern, but the depositors are believed to be all local people, mostly workingmen. The book's show about 1,000 shareholders. The statue of Chancellor James Kent, nearly a century ago justice of the New York State Supreme Court and the author of the famous commentaries on the American law, was visited at Poughkeepsie Wednesday by a number of his descendants and several members of the bar, who in this way recognized the 132 d anniversary of his birth. The statue, which is approaching completion in the studio of Sculptor George E. Bissel, will be placed next fall in the new Congressional Library at Washington.