Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1895 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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. “ ~ , . ■ " » 11. Lants. aged 60 years, traveling man for the Genoa Electric Company, of Buffalo, N 7 Yvywns found dead at RandaH Hotel in Fort Wayne, Ind. He was suffering from toothache and ‘purchased laudanum to alleviate the pain. It is supposed that he took an overdose of the drug. At Troy, N. Y.. Mrs. H. E. Sliter, aged about 7Uyears, and a nurse, Mary Harris, . aged RT>, whrFwas attending, het', weij~ burned to death in a fire which destroyed the frame dwelling in which the former resided. The fire is supposed to have bfen caused by the explosion of a kerosene oil lamp. - “ There seems to -Lo a determination on the part of the authorities of 1 Red' Bank, N. J., fossuppress swearing on the.public streets. -Grover Reeves was arraiginxT before Ju st ice <' h ilds-a nd fineds3.so for having used seven bad words on the street." This- is the second case of the kind that has occurred in a few weeks, All who wish -to swear on the public highway may do so. provided there is no objection to pitying for.<ach snear at the rate of 50 cents a word. The brown«tone_ slab known, as/_tbe base of the pedestal of the statue of George Washington in front of the New York sub-treasury is to be removed to save it from destruction. This is the stone upon whiclr George Washington stood when he took the oath of office as first President of the United States April 30, 1789. It began to show the effects of weather last year and was covered by a wire netting. Assistant United States Treasurer Conrad N. Jordan saw that the stone was beginning to crumble and reported the fact to the Washington authorities. At a session of the American Federation of Labor at New York a supplementary report froth President Mcßride w a s subinit ted and refer red t o app rop r i ate committees. This was said on the question of immigration: “Inasmuch as the) last convention decided that no restriction of immigration was needed; except in the work of keeping out sirvh laborers, as comfehere mnder contracL-aiL criminals other~ tUan" political and“"snrh" persons, as are likely to become a public charge- ft- woiThl hrT -yveH- for this con,, vention, to give some attention to the adoption of metnbds by which assistance can be given to government officials who seek to ferret out.and punish those who violate the alien labor law.” Dispatches to the Gloucester, Mass., Mutual Insurance Company say that the schooners Hattie D. Linnell, S. P. Willard, Mabel R. Bennett, and Jennie s Seaverns parted their cables while lying at anchor in the roadsted between the islands'of St. Pierre and Little Miquelon during a terrible gale Thursday and drove ashore.. The Linnell is a total loss, and after going asliore was burned t<> the water's edge. The Bennett was forced to slip her chains’ or be sunk' with all hands at her anchorage by the French steamer Pouyer Quierticr. which had parted her cable and was driving ashore. The steam--er is a total loss. The Willard, Seaverns and Bennett are in bad positions and full of water, .and it is feared they will be total losses.