Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1896 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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New York society has snubbed Mrs. Oliver!!. P. Belmont, formerly Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt. A musical in aid of a host pital has been declared off, the patronesses refusing to serve when they learned it was to be held at her house, An-explosion qf gas oceurted Tuesday in the factory of Frank P. Pflagar & Co., New Haven. Conn. One man was instantly killed by the explosion, two pthers lost their lives in the fierce fire which followed. The buildings and contents were destroyed, and a loss of SIOO,OOO was caused. William' Foster. Jr., of New York city, engaged in the business of mining and manufacturing, lias made an assignment to his son. The liabilities are expected to be about $400,000, and the assets are 'largely ill excess of that amount. The assignment is made in order to enable Mr. Foster, who is in ill health, to retire from business. s The steamer Seaguarauce, at New York, from Mexican port; and Havana, lauded four sailors from the wrecked Norwegian bark Borghild, which, while proceeding down the Mexican coast on Jail. 12, was knocked down by a norther and capsized. All hands were saved. Two seamen of the schooner O. W. Jones, which was wrecked on the bar at Santa Anna. While bound for New Orleans, also arrived on the Seagnaranoe. Gon. Thomas Ewing, ex-member of Congress from Ohio, died Tljetplay morning at New York, from the effects of injuries received by being struck by a cubic car. Gen. Ewing, who was a member of the law firm of Etying. Whitman A: Ewing, tff New York, was born in Lancaster, Ohio, in 1829. lie was admitted to tin* bar m CiuciuunU in 1850 and went to Kansas during the free soil struggles. When.the State of Kansas was admitted to tlni Union, he was appointed chief justice, but resigned to enter the Union, army in the civil war as Colonel of the Eleventh Regiment of Kansas. lie rose to the rank of brigadier general, and nfterward was breveted major genera! and' had command of 1 he - Department of the Missouri, lie went to Washington in .1800 as the assistant of ex-Seeretary of the Interior Browning, and returned to Ohio in 1870 and entered politics. He was a member of Congress from 1877 to 1881 and in-1879 rim for Governor on the Democratic ticket, but was defeated, 11l 1881 he went to New York to practice law, and for many years he was president of the Ohio Society there. Gen. Ewing had live children, all grown up. Mrs. Ewing is still living.