Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1895 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Robert A. Burch, managaing editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, is dead, aged 44. Two New York dealers have each been fined SSO and sent to jail for ten days for selling skimmed milk. Spelman Bros., New York, importers of fancy goods and toys, have failed, with liabilities of over $200,000. r The Attorney General of New York has suit to prevent the American Tobacco Company from doing business in the State, holding that it is an illegal combination. - ■, Frank M. Vernon, who claims Chicago as his home, and who has been cutting quite a swath in New York, was pummeled by two young women in that city and then carried away in a cab. =—=, Electric Lineman Harry Sherman, of the Brush, works, Rochester, N. Y., receTved a shock of between 1,000 and 2,600 volts. He was picked~~Trp~apparently dead, but after hard work was resuscitated. William Gaillard, of Palestine Couimandery, No. 6, Knights Templar, of New London? Conn., dropped dead from apoplexy at Boston. He was returning to headquarters after parade apparently as well as usual when the fatal attack seized him. - =—■— ; : At Pittsburg James Getty, an ex-couu-cilmau and a wealthy liquor dealer, was shot and killed by Alexander Hutchinson. formerly proprietor of the Merchants’ Hotel. Getty was the owner of the Hotel Willey and the murder was the result of a dispute Over the leasing of the hotel to Hutchinson. Hutchinson gave The coroner’s jury at New York which has been inquiring into the cause of the fall of the building in West Broadway on Aug. 8, by which fifteen workmen were killed, were charged by the coroner that it was the changing of the concrete from 18 to 12 inches that caused the-col-lapse of the building. The Ironwork oxv the pillar, while.it was not of the best, he held,’'could not be held responsible for the disaster.