Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1896 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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. -jfhmw fan st New! York Tnesdsy tn Hi* depth of three inches. . William T. Adams (Oliver Optic) haa just returned to Boston from a trip around the world, - ■ " - ’.'P; %i- 7, The New York Methodist conference' voted down the proposition to admit women ft* lay delegates to the general conference. ~ , - ; ■ ■ • ■ - The New York Thirteen Club has pre-. ferred charges against one of its member* for altering the Prince of Wales’ letter declining membership in the club so as to make it appear that be had accepted. > A man named Bendahar, said to belong In Boston, otherwise known as "Africa,” lias been arrested at Tangier, Morocco, on the application of Mr. Barclay, United States Consul-General there. Bendahar is accused of being a defaulter. ~j Frank McKinley, employed by the Sing-* er Manufacturing Company, at Elizabeth, N. j., was killed by a Pennsylvania Railway train. McKinley had been married less than an hour before the accident occurred. liis bride and he were on their way from church. Zella Nicolaus is hunting George Gould with blood in her eye. She forced her way lpto the Missouri Pacific offices at St. Louis Wednesday, declaring that he had lied about her and must make a retraction. She said: “I wish I could lay hands on him. He would not look nearly so pretty as he thinks he does.’ Fourteen buildings in the business section of Yonkers, N. Y., were burned Tuesday. The total loss amounts to about SIOO,OOO. The Josephine Louise House, New Orleans, a magnificent three-story building, was badly damaged by fire. The building is used by the young lady students of the famous Sophie Newcomb College as a dormitory. Loss about $3,000. The marriage of Gen. Benjamin Harrison, extlTesideut of• the United States, t 6 Mrs. Mary Scott Dimmick, niece of the late Mr*. Harrison, took place late Monday afternoon in New York in St. Thomas’ Church. In accordance with the wishes of both contracting parties, the wedding was a quiet one, only the immediate relatives and friends of the two families being Invited. Dr. John Guiteras, a leading Cuban patriot of Philadelphia, has received a letter from an unknown Cuban sympathizer, who signs himself “Ignacio Agramonte,” inclosing a check for $4,000 in aid of the Cuban cause, and another for SI,OOO to be given to the widow of a Cuban journalist who had acted as secretary to the Cuban delegate, Senor Estrada Palma. This makes the third letter which Dr. Guiteras has received from his unknown correspondent The first, which came tfvo months ago, inclosed a check for $2,000 In aid of the patriots’ cause. "The" second.” received about A month later, contained a check for $4,000. The letters are written in excellent Spanish, but evidently in a disguised hand. The writer requests that acknowledgment be made in the Cuban newspaper Patria.—