Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1896 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Hiram E Morrison, who was arrested at Boston Monday night, after his wife had been found dead In her home, with finger marks upon her throat and other bruises about her face and head, has confessed that he choked the Woman to death while in a fit of jeaions rage at her action in having a crowd of neighbors in the bouse drinking. He alleges thdt he also wan-drunk at the time. • An explosion of gns occurred at the Berwind-W’hite shaft in the eastern limits of Dnbois, Pa.. Monday. Thirteen miners were killed. Eighteen men went to wbrk in the mine, fourteen goiiig into the north, "ttPSaThg and four into'fh'eiaiilTßiTieadinig. Those in the south bending heard an explosion and barelyi managed to escape wit,h assistance,, There was another explosion at Adrian mines, loented eight miles, sauthxyest of Dubois, caused fire damp. Two men were killed. Gov.- Morton of New York signed the Raines high-licynse bill. . Gov. Morton filed with bis signature to the bill, a lengthy memorandum in which he reviews the excise situation at the present time and the manner in which it will be benefited by the new law. He tiphplds, the constitutionality of the bill and makes no suggcsttfmmis Ur supplemental legislation, as was expected'. In closing be says: “It has been suggested that the hill, in some of its featu res, cspecia 11y in some of its administrative details, should be amended. Experience will probably suggest other amendments.” Arthur J. Goodwin, who has a record as a defaulter and a bigamist, has been arrested in New York upon the specific charge of defaulting Marqh 1, 1895, wftlf £1,250, which he had collected for the Continental Oil Company, of Cripple Creek, whose agent he was in September, 1893. IIe~w&s arrested in SL Loyis, where he was put under $1,200 bonds. He forfeited his bail, however, and went to England, returning only a few days ago. He admits Raving taken the money from the Continental Oil Company, and says when he skipped his bail in St. Louis be did so with the intention of going to England, where -his grandfather bad died; leaving him some money. He intended to return and pay back the money he had taken. His share of the estate, he said, was $15,000. . New York State Republicans held their : State convention Tuesday, and the feature of the gathering was the speech of Senator Parsons, of Rochester, presenting Levi P. Morton as a presidential candidate, and the subsequent election of delegates pledged td’Tiim. Following were the nominations: Delegates-at-Large, Thomas C. Platt. Warner Miller, Chauncey M. Depew. Edward Lautcrbach; alternates, Hamilton Fish, C. IL Babcock, Frank S. Witherbee, Daniel McMiHan. The financial plank of the platform dedares: “Until there is a prospect of international agreement as to silver coinage, and while gold remains the standard of the United States and of the civilized world, IBS Republiegn pai*l£ of New York declares itself iiy favor of the firm and houorable maintenance of that standard.”