Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1896 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

Another big lockout of New York tailors is threatened. Should it be ordered 10,000 tailors will be thrown out of work. Ex-Gov. George D. Robinson, is suffering with apoplexy at his home in-Chico-pee, Mass., aqd his condition is critical. Romulus Gray, formerly a wealthy Chicago , real estate owner, is in a New Haven, Cohn-.; hospital, suffering with paralysis. A bill is being prepared for introduction in the New York legislature to authorize the City of New' York to purchase Eflgar Allan Poe's cottage at Fordham,'and remove it to Central Park. A receiver ha s been appoint cd”- for the United Brethren Mutual Aid Society, of Lebanon, Pa. The a mutual inanrance btrslness and Its i-wtlikatesAg-<r«Vat e several..million dollars. TLp Republican Club of New York fa agitating a project to erect a mammoth national club house in that city as a monument to the party. It is proposed to raise from S2,(MK>,(W to $5,000,000 by popular subscriptions. 7 —C usnncey MrTtepe w has declined an tnvitalfan to address the law students of the Statu University at Lawrence; Kun. His reason for making the declination, it is>» said, was that as the. faculty had recently refused Col. Robert G. Ingersoll permission to speak befoi'e the students he could not accept. i Commander and Airs. Bailington Booth have been forced to. relinquish tlmir command of the Salvationarmy.. That they keenly feel their deposition is evidenced by a manifesto- issued by them at New York < Friday, in which words of strong rebuke are administered to Herbert Bqoth, to whom they were compelled to stirrcnfler llieir keys iuilT office's* 11 is possible that this sudden action will lend to a secession of the American tinny from the parent English body. By the general public the manifesto will be construed as indicating strained relations in the Booth family, which have heretofore been entirely unsuspected. It has been intimated that Commandant Herbert Booth is anxious to siift-eeed Bailingtoil Booth in this country, but after this statement of the manner in which he treated his brother, many members of the Salvation army would find it difficult to yield to him that loving and loyal obedience which the best interests of the army demand.