Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1895 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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The British ship Capac reached Philadelphia Thursday night with seventeen of the crew of the British steamer Prince Oscar. The latter was in collision July 18 with an unknown ship. Both vessels aunk and ffirtydir™ —- The will of the Duchess of Castellucia, just filed in New York, contains this queer paragraph; “Having already given my husband, Edward L. Dwyer, at various times, money and other property, I hereby give to him the sum of $lO, and—no more.” She left an estate worth S3IS,000. —Early Friday morning fire started in the lumber piles of the Skillings, Whitney & Barnes Lumber Company at Ogdensburg, N. Y. At 6 o'clock the department from PreScott, Ont., arrived in response to an" appeal for assistance, but from.ten to twelve million feet of pine lumber was destroyed. It is valued at $501,000. Papers have been filed in the United States Circuit Court at Boston, Mass., by the Bell Telephone Company asking for an injunction against the National Telephone Manufacturing Company, of Boston, to prevent alleged infringement of the Berliner patents held by the plain--tiffs. A hearing has been set for Sept. 2. Judge O'Brien, of the Supreme Court, at New York, appointed Courtlandt CClark receiver of the Lockwood Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of build-, ers’ hardware at South Norwalk, Conn., in a salt brought by William P. Foss, for a dissolution of the corporation. The liabilities of the corporation amount to -$280;900. - A Washington dispatch says; The Philadelphia Lexow Committee has begun its work. Senator Quay- bus evidence 4nhis possession strong enough to send to the penitentiary fifty of the men who arp fighting him hardest in the Quaker City under the banner of reform The bulk of this evidence relates to frauds in connection with the construction of the new city building, which has already cost $20,000,000, and to the aqueduct and other contracts. It will show how contractors have been obliged for years to make out bills for double the amounts actually earned and pay oyer the stolen half to members of the ring now clamoring for reform. A telegram from Bailcy’s Island, Maine; announced Wednesday the sudden death of George Frederic Hoot, whose home, for many years had been at Hyde Park, 111., and who bad composed the music for more Ilian a score of the most popular songs that have ever been enshrined in the hearts of the American people. His death is a tremendous blow to the musical circles of the entire country, but it is the whole people who will mourn his loss .vs a national calamity. On the field of battle his war songs of “Just Before the Battle, Mother,” “Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!” “Glory, Glory, Hallelujah!” and “Rally Round the Flag, Boys,” have nerved the weary feet of. marching thousands and turned victory into defeat in mauy a hot charge. t Three persons were killed and two seriously injured in Philadelphia Friday morning. A. wagon driven by William Hasson was struck by a Pennsylvania Railway locomotive on the outskirts of the city at a grade crossing. The vehicle was smashed and Hasson was instantly killed. Edward Miskell and John Hasson, a younger brother of William, were seriously injured internally. They were taken to a hospital*. where the pliysicans say their condition is critical. About ’Hie same time, in another section of the city, Martin Ervin, while crossing the tracks of the Baltimore and Ohio Railway, was struck by a locomotive and instantly killed. Willie H. Stanley, G years old, was ground to pieces under the wheels of a fast-flying trolley ear near bis home in West Philadelphia.