Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1896 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Representatives, of the National Linseed OU Company and large trade interests n>et in Jjfew York to consider an advance in prices. ....... Henry Barton Beecher, son of the late Henry Ward Beecher, was on trial on the charge of forgery in the criminal part of (the Supreme Court. Brooklyn. Beecher is charged with forging an application of the rice-president of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad Company for an insurance policy, for which the .premiums would aggregate $220,000. He th defended by his brother, Co). William

C. Beecher, and ex-Assistant District Attorney- Wellman. At Portland, Me., the Democratic State convention declared in favor of a gold standard, against the free* coinage of silver, in favor of a resubmission of the State prohibition amendment, and fqr high license and local option. .It indorsed' President Cleveland and denounced the protective tariff as operated by Republicans, declaring in favor of legislation which shall restore the country to prosperity. Edward B. Winslow, of Portland, was nominated for Governor by acclamation. At the Taylor Cycle Park, west of Little Falls, N. Y., where the State meet of the L. A. W. was to take place,- the bpiler of the steam yacht Titus Sheard exploded as the boat was being moored Thursday afternoon. In that vicinity ten of the crowd were killed outright, due died while on the way. to the hospital, three wete fatally and six seriously injured. The boat was blown to splinters, and pieces of the boiler were thrown 500 feet. Three of the bodies have not been i recovered, and are believed to be in the Erie canal, where the catastrophe occurred. The explosion is believed to resulted from the defective working of the pump connected with the boilers. The engineer, W. Van Buren Youngs, is in the hospital seriously injured, and can give no account of the accident. 'Congressmen Abbott and Culberson of Texas went to River View, a resort on the Potomac, Sunday for an outing, and among the attractions offered was a contrivance known as “shooting the chutes.” Representative Abbott, accompanied by another member of their party, got into the boat to make the descent into the water of the lake, which at this point is about three feet deep. As the boat touch, ed the water and rose into the air Congressman Abbott’s hat flew off. He involuntarily released his grasp of the bars he held to catch the hat and was thrown high into the air, falling on a seat in >the boat and striking on the small of his back. He was unable to rise and it W.as seen that he was badly hurt He was suffering from frequent convulsive pains and the lower part of his body and legs were paralyzed. His physician thinks there is no danger of complete paralysis.