Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1896 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Perkins & Welsh. New 10l .angarimporters and exporters, have assigned to Benjamin PtHiins,. with preferences to creditors for upward of $125,000. The Ejm. Was rated at $300,000 a fid its credit was good. - ■ . A light engine rah into a crowd of carcleaners who were walking the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad track at New Yorig. killing two women and injuring two other women and a man so badly that they will probably die. Thomas W. Palmer, of Michigan, called on,: Gen. Harrison at.the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, ’Monday night. They were together two hours. When Mr. Palmer came downstairs he Was asked whether Nir. Harrison was a candidate he. “that Gen. Harrison is not a candidate.” “ ” The GloucesteT, Mass., fishing schooner Fortuna was sunk in a collision with the Boston Fruit Company’s fruit steamer '“Barnstable off Highland light Monday night. Nine of the Fortuna's crew were drowned; fourteen were saved. The collision occurred about 7:30 o’clock. The night was-extremely dark, and a lumpy sea was running. The Barnstable's lights wercPseen, but knowing she had the right of way the schooner’s course was not altered until too late. The steamer struck her well forward, cutting a deep hole, and the ■schooner began to settle immediately. Before the boats could be cleared she went down jtiid the crew wore left struggling in the water until fourteen of them were picked up by the Barnstable's boats. The Others had gone down, , A Philadelphia dispatch says: Demoralization is staring the kid and morocco leather industry in the face. Several large firms have gone to the Wall And others in all probability will follow. The direct cause of failure,of the local firms which have lately succumbed is traceable to the failure of the Keen-Sut-terleb Company, which went under a few days ago. The latest failure recorded is that 6f Charles Landell, who has confessed judgment to tjie amount of almost $1,000,000. It is whispered in some sections along North. Third street thatsomething of a very, sensational nature may soon bo expected in the affairs of the Keen-Sutterlee Company, but the nature of it was not mentioned by anyone. It is impossible to get the exact figures representing the liabilities of the fignj, but those best infbrnied state that they will surely amount to over $4,000,000, while any attempt to get at the assets is mA-e conjecture.