Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1895 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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At Pittsburg, Pa., the Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the lower court forking Mayor WarAvick of Philadelphia to administer the oath*of office to W. j. Roney as receiver of taxes. The United States battle-ship Texas has gone into drydock at the Brooklyn navyyard, where her bottom will be scraped. Site will 1 hen have a speed trial, and afterAvard, -with the .second-class batle-ship Maine, will join the North Atlantic squadron. The Ryan family of six persons was burned to death in a> tenement house fire at No. 311 Van Brunt street, Brooklyn, shortly after 1 o'clock Wednesday morning. The cause of the fire is hot known, but there are indications that it Lmny-haredbeemstarted by the explosion of a kerosene lamp. The Buffalo elevators are becoming blocked with the great flood of grain noAAbeing shipped from Lake Superior. Close to 9DM OOP bAmhelw of grain Is there nnd a larce fleet is -due. The Erie elevator had five boats Tuesday waiting to unload, and not a car for shipment. Many of the . el»Avatv4-s4iru,full.mud vessels are experiencingTerfotra delay Captain Frederick Lang Ws Wife-; were murdered at their home on Franklin avenue, Gardenville, Baltimore, Mondays night. The:r skulls Averc <-ru.shed as they lay in bed ami the house Avas ransacked. It is supposed that robbery was the incentive of she double murder. Captain Lang was a Baltimorean. He was about fifty years old and very wealthy. He owned a great deal of property, including a number of oyster vessels. Miss ConSiielo Vanderbilt was united in marriage at 12:30 o’clock Tuesdayy-in the Protestant Episcopal Church of St.Thomas, New York, to Charles Richard John Spencer Churchill, ninth puke of Marlborough, Earl of Sunderland, Baron Wormleiglrttin, Baron, Churchill of Sandridge,’ Prince of the Holy Roman Empire and Prince of Mindelheim, in Stvabia. As upon previous -Occasions when American heiresses have bestowed fhemselves upon titled foreigners, the ceremony was witnessed by that select and exclusive body known as “society.” Following the ceremony at the church, for which over 4,000 invitations were issued, there Avas a breakfast and reception at Hie home of Mrs. Williain. K. Vandevbilt. the guests for the latter function being limited to 300 in number.