Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1895 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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John Czech was executed fit - Jersey City, N. J., for the murder of his wife. At Rochester, N; Y., because of the tobacco war, cigarets dropped in price to twenty for 5 cents. Jacob Serkes lias been added to the gang of counterfeiters arrested in Philadelphia. Greenberg lias made a full confession. Fires at Philadelphia destroyed the gas - and electric fixture plant of Horn, Brannon. Forsythe & Co., and the brickyards of A. H. Dingee. The first-named firm list SIOO,OOO and the latter $85,000. A man about 35 years old, dressed like a laborer, registered at Sweeney’s Hotel, New York, as Hugh Molony, of Chicago, and in the toilet-room drank from a bottle of carbolic acid. He was taken to a hos*pital and died ill an~honrrr ; -■ ■=--- Surrogate Fitzgerald, of New York, in his report on the Jay Gould estate as a basis for levying the collateral inheritance tax, values the personal property at SBO,934,580, and the real estate at $2,000,000. The residuary estate amounts to $73,224,547. One of the largest fires-ever known in Southeastern New England broke out at 7 o’clock Thursday night in one of the mills of the Warren Manufacturing Company, situated-near thecenter of Warren, R. 1., and before it jeas got under control it had swept through three large cotton . mills, two warehouses, small sheds, freight cars and other property, causing a loss which is estimated at more than $1,000,000. . An immense assemblage of Pennsylvanians and New Jerseyites took part Tuesday in the exercises attending the dedication of the monument of Washington’s crossing. This monument is at Taylorsville, formerly known as Mclvoney’s Ferry, and marks the spot whore Washington and the patriot army crossed the Delaware River on a bleak December night and routed the British and Hessian troops at Trenton, N. .T. The exercises consisted of the singing of patriotic songs, and reading of a poem and of historical papers and an oration by General W’illiam S. Stryker, Adjutant General of New Jersey.