Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1897 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

The Holman friction-geared locomotive has been tried successfully under favorable circumstances, making 56 miles in 55 minutes over a poor track. The New York Court of Appeals has confirmed New York City’s title to the tideway land around the Island of Manhattan, valued at 145,000,000. Mrs. Maria H. Dosch, an aged Hoboken widow who has lived in abject poverty, has fallen heir to an-estate in Holland valued at over $5,000,000. John F. Boynton, a well-known resident of Leominster, Mass., shot and killed his wife and then committed suicide. Family troubles are believed to have been the cause. The 2,500 miners of the Pennsylvania river district, who have been idle for two weeks, owing to a dispute over the differential, have resumed work, pending a settlement by arbitration. Captain Robinson of the Baltimore team denies that the Temple cup game funds were divided equally. He says each Oriole will get $3lO, while the Bostonians receive $207 each. William Daniel, one of the leaders of the Prohibition party in the United States and its candidate for the Vice Presidency in 1884, died suddenly at his home in Mount Washington, a suburb of Baltimore. Col. J. Thomas Scharf, Chinese inspector at New York, has sent in his resignation, declaring that the Chinese exclusion act is a farce, cannot be enforced and results in the corruption of the Treasury Department. The Trenton Iron Works has begun the construction of an aerial tramway from Dyea to Lake Linderman, for the Chilkoot Railroad and Transportation Company. The contract calls for completion of the road by Jan. 15. At the meeting of the new board of directors of the Western Union Telegraph Company in New York, Thomas F. Clark, formerly assistant to the president, was elected as acting vice-president, to succeed John Van Horne. Ex-Bunker F. V. Rockafellow, convicted of receiving deposits at his bank at Wilkesbarre, Pa., after he knew the bank was insolvent, has been sentenced to pay a fine of $1,400 and serve one year in the Eastern penitentiary. The prisoner is over 70 years of age. At Harrisburg, Pa., Judge Simonton handed down an opinion dissolving the temporary injunction against the Capitol building commission in the equity proceedings brought by certain architects who competed for the prizes for making the best design for the proposed new capitol. The deputy sheriffs at the De Armit coal mines made a raid on the strikers at Sandy Creek and arrested fifteen men, including the members of the brass band. The strikers were marching on the public road and were halted by the deputies about a quarter of a mile from the tipple. The band refused to stop playing and the entire party was placed under arrest without resistance. The prisoners were taken to Pittsburg and to the sheriff’s office. The members of the band took their arrest good-naturedly and played their instruments as they were escorted from the railroad station to the sheriff’s office. Chief Deputy Evans said the men were riotous and he feared trouble. This is denied by the strikers. Superintendent De Armit claims that the three mines of the company are now running to their fullest capacity.