Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1896 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

Grain Shovelers' Union, No. 51, of Buffalo, N. Y., went on strike for an advance In wages from SI.BO per thousand bushels to $2.50. They also declare for no Sunday work and for the privilege of employing their own time keeper and want Io be paid at the elevators and not at saroons, as heretofore. At Easton, Pa., four students have been suspended from Lafayette College for baaing, gnd others are to go. The men were all cast for prominent parts in the sophomore play to be given at comp>en cement, and the performance is to be

abandoned. The college authorities are very strict about hazing, and the fact that they have been defied caused much 'surprise. One freshman was badly frightened by discharges *of fireworks. It Is said another was initiated into a new fraternity, and that he was branded with cigars as part of the'ceremony. Another story is that freshman was put through a track athletic training and then rubbed down with sand. It is said some higher class men are involved. Austin Corbin, the millionaire banker of New York, was fatally hurt Thursday afternoon and died at 9:42 that evening. Mr. Corbin was at his great forest and game preserve at Newport, N. H., and undertook to drive a pair of young and skittish horses. He was warned by Gardner, nis coachman, not to do so. as the horses were very unruly and wild. Mr. Oorbin persisted, and hitching them to a cart he, his grandson, Mr. Edgell, Dr. Kunster and Gardner went for the drive. The horses acted .very badly, and, in turning a corner, ran away- and threw the four men heavily upon the ground. Gardner, who has also since died, and Mr. Corbin were terribly injured, and Mr. Edgell and Dr. Kunster severely so.