Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1897 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Jimmy Michael rode a mile in I:3G at Philadelphia. This is practically the world's record for a eyclisf. Henry George has again been nominated for Mayor of Greater New York, this time by the new Jeffersonian Democracy. The United States ship Y'antic has been ordered to proceed from Boston to Michigan, for the use of the naval militia of that State. Major Lewis Ginter's will has been filed at Richmond, Yt. It disposes of an estate valued at between $7,000,000 and $8,000,000. Frank Steele, Robert Campbell and James F. Quigley, found guilty of assaulting Thomas F. McGuiuness at Boston, Mass., were sentenced to fifteen years in State prison. Dr. Joseph W. Kelley. 23 years old, a graduate of the Holy Cross College and the Baltimore medical school, is said to be lying in a Brooklyn hospital suffering from yellow fever. Official figures of the New Jersey election show a majority of 102 for the antigambling amendments and 380 for the regulation —of —appointments—and—DUs- - woman suffrage. Cutting off his wife and son without a penny, Robert Ireland, a member of an old New York family, who died in Catskill, N. Y., loft liis entire estate to Miss Mary Reynolds, his housekeeper. At Glean, N. Y., A. H. Holmes, agent for a Chicago portrait company, arrested on a charge of appropriating $173 of the company's money, was found dead in his cell, having hanged himself with a handkerchief. At the recent Connecticut election the constitutional amendment requiring all candidates hereafter for the right to vote in the State to read the constitution and State statutes in English carried by a large majority. Emmet C. Gibson is under arrest at New York, and if the charges against him are true he is the most astounding financier, promoter, check “Jdter” and allround swindler of the century. He lived in Chicago at one time, and is said to number among his victims Henry Clews and John Wanamaker. The tinners and dusters at the New Castle, Pa., Tin Plate Works have struck because Richard Kissinger was discharged, the foreman alleging that he had tried to kiss one of the girls employed at the plant. Both Kissinger and the girl'make denials and it is claimed that the foreman reported Kissinger to the management because be wanted to get rid of him for other reasons. About 175 men and boys are out end the tin mill is idle. Because she did not keep her promise to become the wife of Arthur S. Melc-her, Mrs. Hadley, formerly Miss Louise M. Dingley, a relative of Congressman Dingley, was sentenced at Auburn, Me., to pay $1,789 damages. It is the first time in the history of the State that such an action has been brought by a man against a woman. Mrs. Hadley. who until a few months ago Was Miss Louise M. Dingley, is a cousin,, and, by marriage, a niece of Congressman Dingley, the father of the present tariff law. She had suitors by the score, and just when it was pretty well settled in everybody’s mind that Mr. Melcher was the favored one, she suddenly appeared as the wife of Mr. Hadley, to whom she had been married a few days after having met him at Poland Springs. Mr. Melchor is 50 years old and a widower. Mrs. Hadley is about 30 and a dashing blonde, and she is commonly reputed to bo the possessor of a mind of her own. Mr. Melclier made oath that Mrs. Hadley, while she was yet Miss Dingley, not only solemnly promised to marry him, but that the engagement was made at»her stiggestion; in other words* that it was Miss Dingley v.ho did the proposing.