Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1895 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

Josiah C. Bartlett Jr., of - Chicago, heads the senior class list of honor inehTat Phillips Academy, Exeter, N. IL— George D. Burton, manager of the Burton Stock Car Company, has filed a petition in insolvency at Boston. His liabilities are $117,000. Charles "Durchek. a-studcht at Wyoming Seminary. Kingston,. I’a.,was tarred .and feathered by fellow students for stealing from their re w>m s. Steve Brodie, the bridge:jum>eri has challenged the .lewbaiter, to a twenty minutes' debate, agreeing to forfeit SSOO if lie does not prove that the Jews are a bonefit’to this country. AVjrihanj a. -Am&rose ? the absconding city solicitor <xf-A 1100-left%Ls9o,-OOQ s horta ge in his HhciißhlsiT-'JOT this :iiiioiint_Jho building aniTToan’associations of which he wa s solicitor $12,000. ■ —— Four workmen —were-—fat aHy injured wild n.hie others badly hurt at Midvalley colliery, sfcnrmkin. I’a.. by the wrecking of a runaway work train. A dozen other workmen saved themselves, by jumping into the brush while the train wasjhislm ring down a steep-giytdgy^-- - ' —Tht-odeiM I.atuhort tva>-Tianged in tinCamden, N.--J., jirfUThursday morning. Lambert murdered William ,1. Kaiser. a wealthy baker of Camden, on Dec. 4. 1893. With another colored man. named Josiah Steveftsoi)| he was caught burglarizing Raise's house, and shot to escape capture. __ . The steamship Spn^ystrnnded Thursday morning at 5:10 on Warden Ledge, near Tot-land Bay. Efforts made during the flay to float her proved fruitless. She had to remain cm the ledge until the next tide, at midnight. Iler passengers, who number about ninety' in the saloon, remained on board. . ,—r Intelligence reached Philadelphia on Tuesday night that on Sunday the German ship AthcnaT'Trom New York for London, with a cargo of naphtha, exploded off (.'ape May. Fourteen lives were lost, including . the captain. The first and seoond mate and four of the wW 1 r<--scucd..uhy tireßritish—ship

Tafiia and brought to Philadelphia. The mystery of the disaidibariince of Alexander Houston, Louis' Bechtold ami Frederick Fisher, th<> three hat finishers of Yonkers. N." Y., who wenf«ow a fishing trip to the Jersey shore, under the Palisades* Sunday, was-solved Tuesday night. Their bodies were found at the bottom of the Hu>ls< m River jit tllg. foot of-I’ark street by» employes'of the Wariflg hatshop. An upturned boat, a broken oar and a hat were picked up a short distance from Ludlow. The hat was identified as that of Fisher. Joseph Wood, with a crew of men, for the bodies, and at 11 o'clock they succeeded in bringing Bechtold's body to the surface, and soon the other two bodies were recovered. It is supposed that while 'attempting to make a landing the boat was capsized. Belated ships are arriving at Philadelphia bearing evidences of the. terrific gale along the Atlantic coast. The British tankjjhip Mexieano came in badly damaged. Capt. Tait stood on the bridge of the ship without sleep for seventy-two hours. The British, tramp, steamship Marian, Capt. Grahl. from Bilboa, Spain, Nov. 29. arrived with cabjins’' flooded, everything movable washed from the decks, two of the lifeboats Stove in, sails carried away ah(l otherwise damaged. (’apt. Davis, of the British tank steamship l.e C"oq, in port from Barry, reports, experiencing heavy, east-northeast gales. 'The tank steamship Meguntieoak. from Philadelphia for 'Tampa, Fla., with coa], returned- to port in tow-of the tug Meher, leaking badly. The Pacific Mail steam-, ship Newport, which arrived in Now York quttfantine, brought word that on -the morning of Dee. 13 she fell in with the disabled steamer Claribel, of the Atlas Line. The Newport passed a line tp her, but later the Claribel east it off and signaled to the Newport to proceed and report to the owners of the Atlas Line on her arrival in New York. Five men were kiiied and six injured Wednesday morning by the explosion 'of a steampiptton the American Line steamship St. Paul while the vessel lay at her dock at the foot of Fulton Street,- North River, N-ew Y’ork. The dead tye: James Fawns, assistant engineer, of England; ——Manning, fourth assistant engineer; Robert Campbell, machinist, New York; George Williams, machinist. Hoboken: baniei-TaMeCullion, machinist's helper. -Brooklyn^—The injured: Frank Yespets,’third assistant engineer, Roxbury. Mass.; Andrew Heard, storekeeper, Scotland; Dunham, machinist, England: A. Fogel, cleaner. Scotland; Edward Wischert, engineer. At the time of the accident, shortly after 7 o'clock, there were thirty men of the crtjw in the fireroom and ten in the engine-room. The main steampipe, which is three feet in diameter, runs from the engine to the fireroom. It was this pipe which exploded. The main stop-valve wajS blown out.- The accident is believed to have been caused by a flaw in the pipe. Preparations were being made for the sailing of the vessel at 11 o'clock, but fortunately none of the was aboard the vessel. The officers say the necessary repairs will take at least a week.

The great strike of Philadelphia motormen and conductors of the Union Trac l tion Company began early Tuesday Corning. and all ’lines of the coihpany were practically tied up. President Welsh says hundreds of men are applying' for work. Several cars were derailed. The sentimen't of the public is clearly with the strikers. The company employs about 6,000 men, two-thirds of them members of the Employes’ Association. The’demand of the men is for a working day of ten hours with $2 pay, reasonable time for meals, protection from the weather and recognition of their organization. Before the strike in Philadelphia was twenty-four hours old, the city all but in the hands of a mob. The strikers took but little part in the violence, the rowdy element doing all the damage. The police were utterly tillable to Cope with the mob. From early jnorping until dusk, as each branch line made desperate efforts to slart, howling mobs sbrrounded each rar., slemsl motorman and conductor, 'smashed the windows, cut" the trolley ropes and wreaked all possible destruction. Then the attempt was abandoned. Many persons were injured by flying missiles, and complete reports will include „ fatalities and tWpusands of dollars’ worth of jmlnabl e p ropert y destroyed.