Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1897 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Gen. Neal Dow, the famous apostle of temperance, is dying of old age at Portland, Me. • Ogden Goelet’s will has been filed for probate. It lenves the eutire estate, valued at $5,400,000, to the widow and two children. Gotham Democrats nominated Henry George for Mayor, J. G. Boyd for Comptroller and W. S. Overton for president of the Council. The coroner’s jury which investigated the death of the miners at Lattimer, Pa., has returned a verdict that “the killing was wanton ahd unjustifiable.” ' Republicans of Greater New York nominated Gen. B. F. Tracy for Mayor, Ashbel P. Fitch for Comptroller and It. It. Appleton for president of the Council. Dr. Chauncey B. Brewster, rector of Grace Episcopal Church of Brooklyn and coadjutor bishop-elect of Connecticut, was. severely injured while riding in the Catskills. C. E. Iv. Royee, 55 years old, who registered at the Grand Union Hotel, New York, from San Francisco, was found dead in his room. He had! committed suicide by inhaling gas. Robert A. Van Wyek was nominated for Mayor of Greater New York by the Tammany convention. Bird S. Color was named for Comptroller and J. ltuppert, Jr., for president of the Council. A woman and tier four children were found dead by asphyxiation in the West Shore Hotel, Forty-second street and Eleventh avenue. New York. The woman had evidently killed her children and committed suicide. Three persons were killed on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Carreroft, Pa., by a passenger train crashing into a wagon. The victims were: Mytro Dobriski, aged 35 years; George Baldwin, aged 0 years; Maud Baldwin, aged 12 years. Massachusetts gold Democrats nominated the following State ticket: Governor, Dr. William Everett; Lieutenant Governor, James E. Cotter; Secretary of State, Bernard Wolf; Treasurer, Horace P. Tobey; Auditor. Harry Douglas; Attorney General, William Mc^leneh. Massachusetts Democrats adopted a platform indorsing the Chicago free silver platform and nominated the following: For Governor, George Fred Williams; for Lieutenant Governor, C. T. Callahan; for Secretary of State, C. D. Nash; for Attorney General, John A. O'Keefe; for Treasurer, T, A. Watson; for Auditor, J. L. Clialifoux. Nine men were fatally injured and 30 more wounded in a bloody riot at Girardvithrr Pa. The Lattimer affair was the cause of the trouble. Poles boarding at Culacabbage’s hotel walked to Cavendish's hotel, where Lattimer workers were celebrating pay day. The result was a bloody encounter, in which axes, knives, razors, clubs and other weapons were used with deadly effect. The police officers were powerless to quell the riot.