Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1897 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Seymour Bros., stock and grain brokers of New York arid other cities, have assigned. Liabilities are believed to be ■bout 8500,000. The Republican County Commit'ee of New York has decided to put a full straight ticket in the field, ignoring the nomination of Seth Low. Paul Dopierre, formerly vice-consul of the French republic at New Orleans, killed himself in his apartments in New York, by inhaling illuminating gas. Archibald Kelso, wanted in Pittsburg for murdering his father, fought with detectives at Port Waashington, NVis., and then jumped into the lake and was drowned. The Western Elevator Association of Buffalo, which has been one of the strongest combinations iri this country, has been broken by competition, and will dissolve at the end of the present season. A biscuit trust has been formed. The combine includes the New York . ’iscuit, the American Biscuit and the United States, Biscuit companies. The capital stock stands at $30,000,000; the jonled indebtedness is $3,000,000. A company of New York and Philadelphia capitalists, headed’ by Major C. O. Godfry, late president of the Tennessee Central Railway, has been formed with a capital stock of $500,006 to develop the extensive kaolin bed at Kaolin, Ala. The excursion steamer Catskill was struck and sunk by the steamer St. John in the North River at New York. The boat went to the bottom in seven minutes, but her forty-seven passengers and crew of thirty were all saved by tug-boats. In Hartford, Conn., is a young African negro, deaf and dumb, who claims to be a Hebrew. He says he comes from a townNin Africa where there is a tribe of 20,000 colored Hebrews who speak Loschen Khodish, the language of the books of Moses,-' The Strike against the De Armits will contir.ute indefinitely, arrangements having been made to assess the working miners 5 per cent, of their wages to defray the expenses of keeping up the fight until tlje 65-cent rate is made luiform throughout the district. The Cage in which ten men were being lowered into shaft No. 2 of the Alden Coai Company at Nanticoke, Pa., suddenly diropped to the bottom of the shaft. Eight 61 the men were severely injured, and the injuries of four may prove fatal. The mine is 580 feet deep. The cage had started down the shaft, and, the engineer losing control of the machinery, it dropped to the bottom at terrific speed. After nearly three months’ idleness, between 15,000 and 18,000 coal miners in the Pittsburg district returned to work Thursday in accordance with the action taken nt Wednesday's convention, authorizing the men to resume work in all mines complying with the provisions of the scale of 65 cents adopted at Columbus. The remainder of the 23,000 mines of the district will be at work before the close of the week. It is estimated that the strike, which lasted sixty-five working days, cost the people of the Pittsburg district from $5,000,000 to $7,000,000. Of this amount the miners lost about $2,250,000 in wages. To a great extent the Hazleton (Pa.) strikers have been restrained from open acts of violence by the priests, whose influence prevails to a remarkable degree. At several turbulent meetings, which treatened to end in bloodshed, the priests have gone among the excited foreigners and forced them back. They wain the men that to destroy the coal companies’ property is only to take food from their Own mouths by shutting off future employment. The priests, however, have no plea of mercy for the sheriff’s deputies who shot the men at Latimer, and some of them are active members of the committee that is to push the murder charges in court. It is now quite certain that no attempt will be made to arrest the deputies so long as the troops are camped at Hazleton. Gen. Gobin’s declaration that he will protect the sheriff’s men just as long as he is in command has cooled ihe ardor of those who were for going about the matter hastily. The strike leaders and their attorneys deny the right of Gen. Gobin to enforce such an order, but they admit that he has the power. Friday at Hazleton, Pa., opened with commotion at the headquarters of (lie Third Brigade arid in the various camps. At an early hour a message .reached General Gobin that there was more trouble at Audenreid, The attack made by the women Thursday, which resulted in driving the miners at those collieries out, was repeated When another attempt to start up the collieries was made Friday. Over one hundred men reported for work at the Monarch washery, when the band of amazons, armed with sticks and stones, swooped down upon them. Some of their number again stationed themselves on top of a culm bank, ready to pelt the men, but violence was avoided by the men promptly going out. At the Star washery about one hundred of the 135 men returned to work, but the women deteimiried to drive them out. No attempt was made to resume at the Carson washfry. As soon as the reports of the disturbance reached General Gobin he sent a squad of the Governor’s Troop to the scene. NVhen the cavalry reached there all attempts of violence had ceased, but the women followed the troops about the street, hooting and cursing them. A storekeeper at Audenreid declared that his entire stock of revolvers had been sold during the last few days. Reports from Cranberry confirmed the news that the powder-house of Edward Tuenbach had been broken into by strikers, who had stolen a quantity of dynamite.