Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1897 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Fuller & Wilson, bullion and specie dealers of New York, have assigned. Editor Charles A. Dina is still very sick as his summer nom?, West Island, Glen Cove. Congressman Ben Butterworth .-Twas held up and robbed by a gang of thugs at Atlantic,. City. "T y The third annual session of the Supreme Lodge of Improved Order of Knights of Pythias was held in Baltimore. Mrs. Phoebe Phillips has married Robert J. Hibbart, who was on trial at Atlantic City for shooting her four times last summer. s \ Seth Low has announced that he will not withdraw from thi- .New York Mayoralty race unless the Citizens’ Union wants him to do so. First Lieutenant R. G. Hill, Twentieth Infantry,' U. S. A., attempted suicide by jumping from a train near Harrisburg, Pa., but escaped almost uninjured. The Kings County Electric Light and Power Company will compete with the Edison company in Brooklyn, and it is said will adopt some of Nicola Tesla’s devices and discoveries. W. TI. Osterhouf has begun suit for $541,000 against Elmer and Jay Dwiggins, the N-. w York stock brokers who have failed. He claims stock and bonds held by the firm as collateral. Judge Jackson has made perpetual his famous injunction restraining Eugene V. Debs and other labor leaders from interfering with the Monongah miners. In delivering his opinion, Judge Jackson defended his course, claiming such action on his part was good law and that the in-juncting-abridged no one's rights.