Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1897 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Twelve hundred trousers-makers of Philadelphia have struck for higher wages, (shorter hours and the abolition of the sweating system. The Countess M. de Canavarro was made a Buddhist in New York, the exercises being conducted by S. Dharmapala. She will go a t once to Asia. The story that President McKinley was deceived ,into signing an indorsement of the goods of a big collar concern at Troy, N. Y.. is now absolutely denied. E. B. CuthbertCo., bankers and brokers of New Y'ork, made an assignment to Ernest IL Ball with preferences of $73,000. The liabilities may reach $500,000. »IhSLßJllSlinJ_ofhssets, is unknown. Mrs. John Drew, the oldest of American’ actresses. died in New Y'ork Tuesday. Her death was not wholly unexpected, as her failing health hal been a source of apprehension to her friends for some time. Train No. 4, the New Y’ork vestibuled train on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western, jumped the track at Blodgett's Mills, and the locomotive, baggage car and two coaches ran clear through the station. Mrs. J. 11. McQuillan of Philadelphia was killed and seventeen passengers injured. In the last six days there has been shipped from New York to western points over $7,060,000 in currency to meet the demands made on the New York City banks for money to move the crops which are now oil their way to market. Most of this money which the banks have sent has been in small bills. Scenes of riotous disorder, in which fists took the place of oratorical arguments, marked the State convention of Pennsylvania Democrats. The convention was called to nominate candidates for State Treasurer and Auditor General, but candidates were forgotten in the light to oust William F. Ilarrity from his seat in the National Committee. The anti-Harrity element won and Harrity will be succeeded in the. National Committee by James N. Guffey of Pittsburg. District Attorney Oleott of New York has a signed statement made by Herman Nack, whose wife and Martin Thorn are under indictment for the murder of William Guldensuppe, in which Mrs. Nack’s practices as midwife are recited in shocking details, Ever since the woman arrived in this country, in 1886, the husband declared, she has indulged in unlawful practices. Nack, who has been separated from liiS Wife’!since April, 1896, testified that the bodies of children had been disposed of at the rate of two and three a month for the last eight or ten years. Some of the bodies, he said, were crematel in a stove, and others were buried. A copy of Nack's statement was shown to Mrs. Nack in the Tombs. Her demeanor was unruffled, but when she came to any of his charges she branded it as a lie. Mr. Olcott admitted that Nack's detailed statement had no direct bearing on the trial of the woman and Thorn for the murder of Guldensuppe. He intimated, however, that the declarations of Nack might lead to a prosecution of several doctors whose names are used by Nack in the statement. Mr. Oleott would not discuss the rumor that Mrs. Nack would plead guilty when charged with the murder of Guldensuppe, but declared that no overtures had been made by her attorneys.