Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1877 — FACTS AND FIGURES [ARTICLE]

FACTS AND FIGURES

M»s- B. D. Winslow, wife of the Bosfbp forger. i* living at Whitehall, N. Y., where, iu» said, she is supporting herself ity-sewingi Winslow, himself, it is supposed, has left England for Spain, on hia way to South America, r . .... During January, February ana March, making a total in two cities of 105. Of this. number, - thisl* sum WU" “fßtnd through the agency of officers and detectives; thirty returned to their homes and gave explanattapi of thWt ; one, A. Oakey Hau, reappeared in England; eleven were foqnd dead, having committed sulcidfi or been murdefoit, and’thirty are still missing. 1 1 I T The statistic* of railyuad Mfidents in Great Britain, when compared with those in. this country, make a very favorable showing for the former. Prom all caffse* one passenger out of 8,800,000 who’traveled by r rail in Great Britain was killed in 1875, and one out of each 280,000 was wounded. In the United States the Railroad Ornette reports for the past four years an average of 1,100 accidents a year, resulting in 260 deaths and 1,040 cases of injury. The rapid increase of steamers on the chain of the great north era lakes is tha feature of the lake trade during the last three years. The number employed in 1876 is reported to have been 885, their tonnage being 190,867. The number of sailing vessels has fallen off heavily, decreasing from 8,207 in 1872 to t,382; the tonnage, however, not going down in quite the same proportion, but to such an extent that there were 200,000 tons less in the trade last year than in 1872. How large estates are swallowed up in litigation is painfully illustrated in the celebrated Taylor-wilf qontest at New York, which.has dissipated between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000. Some $16,000 was drawn from it before it was foupd that Mr. Taylor had left a will. Then a granddaughter, who had been given $5,000 a year, contested the will, and the lawyers took $50,000 from Mrs. Taylor before the will was admitted to probate. Creditors began to press claims, which took SBOO,OOO more; the receiver took SIB,OOO in fees, a lawyer $14,000 more, and manv others greater and smaller sums, until the receiver has bnt SIIO,OOO, which will not satisfy the claims upon it. Mrs Taylor’s house and elegant furniture have been seized and sold; she is dependent upon the kindness of friends, and a few days ago her clothing was sold to satisfy a aebt incurred during the litigation. A somewhat similar case is that of the estate of Christian Schaefer, a large brewer, who died in 1872, worth $500,000, which, after paying $15,000 to his widow and a few legacies, was to be divided aroong his five daughters. Martin Bchwaner, a son-in-law, whois the executor, paid thesls,000 to Mrs. Schaefer, but, after the five years, the executor’s charge for services and claims of one kind and another leave but $483 to be distributed among the children, and from this he is to deduct a commission and expense of accounting,'