Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1896 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Bishop Potter, of New/¥ork. has been lavited ,J by the authorities of Cambridge University, in England, -to be select preacher to the universfty during the month of May, 1897. Ttie Cutter Silk Manufacturing Com-, pany of West Bethlehem, Pa., made an assignment to ex-l'ostmaster John' Field, of Philadelphia. The failure is a heavy one, as,the company is capitalized at $500,000-and has in addition a bonded indebtedness Of SIOO,OOO. Dr. O'. Xlv Shedd, proprietor of the Poughkeepsie (X. Y.l Star and a member of the Board of Police Commissioners, was arrested on a charge of larceny in the first degree, it i* charged that Khodd defaulted from the Order of United Friends ih the amount of $9,022. . Shedd #iS" taken before Recorder Odell, who held him in $14,000 bail. Ten persons were burned to death in a Are early Wednesday morning at 30 FnSon street, Brooklyn. The building was a four-story tenement house, occupied by Italians. All metdealh "bj' _ snfifoeauon., The. bodies of some of them were badly burned. The cause of the fire, which originated in die hallway of the first floor, ia unknown. The pecuniary loss is about $4,000. The Butler express on the Wes: Penm syl vania Hail way was wrecked - near Freeport, Pa., Wednesday, meirning and five persons were seriously injured. The accident was caused by the rails spreading. The two rear coaches jumped the trackand went over an embankment; Five broke out almost immediately and the passengers narrowly escaped with their lives. Fortunately, the front ear, which was filled with passengers, did not leave the track. .^JChe-national .Aroicnian relief committee of New York has received a letter dated Oorfa. Feb. 19, as follows: “The massacre of Dec. 28 and 29 left over fifteen hundred widow a a mon g the A rnlenian 6urvivors and 4.500 fatherless children. Relief work has just been begun and is simply appalling. The ArmeniAns are very timid, and so few of their men are left that they are reluctant to attempt to distribute aid even to their own people. We try to investigate the needs of all and to treat nil sufferers with impartiality. We need $1.04*0 a week for nt lenst two nr three months.” v