Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1895 — SALA DEAD IN LONDON [ARTICLE]

SALA DEAD IN LONDON

NOTED JOURNALIST AND AU- — - THOR PASSES AWAY. ./-*- Spoken—Drifting nt Mercy of the | Waves—Two Bail Sunday Fires—- = Tradeiaa .Condition. - " -> • s' Fnitiona Imi rn alfst Bcaqr— —7“ k George Augustus Henry Sala, the dis-tinguished-ixmdon author and journalist, la dead, George Augustus Henry Sala, journalist and author, was born in London in 1828.. In the early part of bis career he became a eoiitributor of articles to newspapers and magazines, lie found-. and was the first editor of the Temple Bar Magazine. He yjsitcd the-United StatesJn I&G3 as special, correspondent —for the'Daily Telegraph and -in the latter part of the following year published the result of his observations under the title of in the Midst of 'War.” He was war correspondent for the same “paper in France in 1870, witnessing the -fall of the empire in Paris Sept. 4. He nfterwards went to Rome to record the entry of the Italian army in that city in January, 1875. He visited Spain on the occasion of the entry of Alphonso XII. He visited Russia in December. 1876, as (special, correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, and subsequently traversed the empire to observe the mobilization of the Russian army, then iu progress. —Big Sunday Bla7.es. — business center suffered badly from fire Sunday. There were two serious blazes, one in the morning and the other at night. The first destroyed the five-storv building-eecupied-b?—LL-Welf- & Co.; wholesale general merchants, Xos. 250 and 252 Madison street, and a stock ... of . cky,goods,. Jo y s. and -.notions, insur eds on a valuation of sst >O,OOO. Harris ■Wolf, president o£ the firm, is known as “King of the Peddlers.” The second®fire Broke out at 10:30 at N.os. 178 and ISO Wabash avenue, aYid before it was quenched had edtisod a loss of .8100,000 to ■the building and the stock of Meyer & Weber's .piano house and other concerns under the s&me roof. Two men were injured iu the fires, one in each, and Two had narrow escapes in the Wabash avenue blaze, being rescued from tho “ building-in time to save tlieir-iives.

Markets Are Gorged. 11. G. Dim & Go.’s Weekly Review of Trade says: '•Business is still sluggish,* as if gorged by excessive indulgence of the appetite for buying when prices were advancing. In nearly every branch stocks not yet distributed to consumers • stand in the way of new orders, and competition of a producing force largely exceeding the present demand puts down prices that ‘decline, retarding purchases yet more. After the holidays men look for a larger demand. For the present tho springs of new, business are running low. but enough is doing on old orders to keep most of the works employed in part and a good proportion fully. Financial influ-' cnees have not hindered, and rarely has the opening of a session of Congress affected business so little.” At the Ocenn’9 Mercy. , - ' The British ship Bt rath lie vis, "Which was supposed - to have foundered in the recent November gales in the North I’aeific Ocean. was slacken- a -few days ag» by the British bark John Gambles, which firmed at Vancouver from Japan. The Strathnevis was ill a disabled condition.HU* miles northwest of Cape Flattery, mid is on the sailing track between .Pugoafl Sound and Yokohama. The Strathneyis’ Is laden with passengers and has a vahiRble cargo of merchandise bound to Yokohama from Tacoma. When spoken the St rathnevis had drifted 1,600 miles, and, rs it does hot carry sufficient sail to make steering possible, it is probably beifig carried eastward by the Japan current. j Banks Said to Be Heavy Losers. ■ The story has become public at Cinrinnati, Ohio, that Z. T. l.ewis. of Frbann, who victimized numbers of peyplc by Billing forged municipal bonds! is now hotly pursued by Ralph Crawford, a Cincinnati detective. Crawford' has unlimited means in cash and letters of credit furnished by Cincinnati banks which, until now, have been silent Victims of Lewis’ forged bond business. It.is said Cincinnati banks kept perfectly quiet about a loss that is given anywhere from §150,000 to $”50,000.