Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1895 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

The annual convention of the lumbermen of the United States opened at Buffalo, N. Y. . W. C. Ebisch, E. J. Liebel, and W. T. Brace, postoffiee employes at Erie, were arrested for conspiring to violate the civil service act. Daniel Coxe, bead of the coal-mining firm of Coxe Bros., at Drifton, Pa., was killed by a fall from a locomotive at Hazelton, Pa. Experts are at work on the books of Alfred W. Fitz, the missing treasurer of the Chelsea, Mass., Wire Fabric Company, who disappeared Aug. 12. Mrs. Mary Alice Fleming, a young and wealthy New York woman, has been arrested on the charge of murdering Tier mother, Mrs. Evelyn Bliss, by poison. Orderly Sergeant James M. Brooks, U.K- A , retired, died at Fort Preble, Me., aged 82. He had served in the army for sixty-one years and was the last survivor of the 25,000 men who made up the army when he enlisted. The American Broom and Brush Company, having factories at Amsterdam, Fort Hunter and Fultonville, N. Y., and Dallas, l’a., has advanced the price of brooms ranging from 12% cents to 50 cents per dozen. On first, second and third grade brooms the advance is 25 cents; on fourth grade, 12% cents per dozen. On railroad, barn, split and round rattans, hotel and desk brooms the advance is 25 cents. The other broom man-, ufacturers of the Mohawk Valley not connected with the big concern have made similar advances. A disastrous fire broke out at Boston, Mass., shortly after 5 o’clock Wednesday morning on pier 1, East Boston, owned by the Boston and Albany Railroad, and soon spread to the adjoining piers and store-houses. Piers 1, 4 and 5 were burned and store-houses 4 and 5 wholly destroyed. Fifteen freight cars nnd a large amount of freight were destroyed. It was at first thought the loss would not exceed $150,000, but a' careful estimate indicates that the loss will reach $300,000, and possibly more. In the sheds destroyed were stored 5,000 bales of silas grass, twenty carloads of hay, nearly fifty carToads of flour in sacks, sixteen carloads of merchandise and 7,000 bales of hemp and WOoL all valued at over 8170.000. The wharves nnd buildings destroyed were -vaiued-at~$130;OOQ;