Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1895 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Thu anti-Tammany combine at New York City bas nominated a complete ticket, headed by Thomas L. Hamilton, Republican, for county clerk. Repubticans of the_ Tenth New York District have nominated Robert A. Greitcon for Congress for the vacancy caused by the death of Andrew Campbell. Philadelphia’s three great street railway -systems have been- consolidated under the name of the Union Traction Company, with a capital stock of $108,000,000. The east-bound mail train on the Pennsylvania road was wrecked Wednesday night at Manor Station. One man was killed, one person fatally injured, and many other persons less seriously injured. At Philadelphia a meeting is to be held for the relief of Henry Craemer, a Gcr-man-American who is under Sentence of death for murder at Seattle, Wash., but who is declared innocent by a German paper in Philadelphia, which has investigated. Tuesday afternoon a terrific explosion of gas otcurred at Wilkesharre in tips Dorrance mine, and at 8 o’clock five men, all badly, burned, and seven dead bodies were brought to the surface. It bethought: one of the engineers, probably the fireboss, Daniel Reese, set fire to a body of gas in the old workings, which respited in the explosion. Heroic work was done by the rescuers, but the file boss’,party had all been Rilled by fire damp immediately after the explosion. At Scranton, Pa., a storage reservoir containing 2,500,000 gallons of water and owned by the Lackawanna Iron and Steel Company, burst Thursday night. It filled the repair yards of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad with wreckage and washed away a portion of" Mattes street. A girl was carried a quarter of a mile but was rescued. Street car traffic was blocked. Hundreds of factory girls crossed the path of tlie water a few moments before the breakr 1 For the third time in thirty days a centennial celebration was held in Washington County, Pa. In all three cases the observances have been held by United Presbyterian churches. Four weeks ago the Mount Pleasant Church oeltbrated its hundredth anniversary. The -Paris Church observed a similar occasion a week later, and Thursday the members and pastor of the Peter’s Creek Church held services in commemoration of tbe completion- of the first Century of existence of their church organization. Dire of the features of the day was the reading by the present pastor of a history of the church, including biographies of all its preacfiers.siucei^ieyeaiiTSi