Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1896 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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warehouse of the Atlantic MailiUH Company at Pittsburg, together settling tanks and a number of w«el»Uig tanks containing oil, was destroyed by Are Tuesday morning, entnilng aJoaa of about SIOO,OOO. The fire **. b®lteeed to bare been of incendiary origin. Tbe Arm of Pemberton Bros., manufacturers and dealers In sheepskins at Peabody, Mass., an: Boston, andthe firm of B. E. Baker ft Cor, dealers to goatskins. of which the Pemberton brothers were also members, assigned for the benefit of their creditors. Tbs Indebtedness *. -

•f the two- firms will aggregate about $300,000 aad their assets $150,000. / A strike of drivers has caused a suspension of five large mines in the Tpm’s Run district, near Carnegie, Pa. Not more than forty men quit work because their demand for an increase in wages was' refused, but they have thrown about 700 diggers out of work. The strike is - not sanctioned by .the miners district officers, and every effort is being made by them to effect a settlement. ' Intelligence has been received at Pittsburg of the capture in of John L. Cowan, who disappeared last February, leaving his friends, relatives, creditors and victims about $200,000 short. Cowan wa in the liimber business, and his victims are scattered over the lumber regions of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and Canada. Forgery, note-raising and other forms of swindling are charged against him. Cowan will be brought back to the United States at once.