Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1897 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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The underground rapid transit system will be built in New York. A contract is said to have been practically signed with Gen. William Sooy-Smith. The 300 employes of John and James Dobson's Bradford, Pa., cloth mills, who have been on strike, returned to work on promise of a 10 per cent increase in wages. The Queen City Gas Company of Buffalo, N. Y„ owned by James Edward Addicks, has been sold. The purchasers are all Buffalo men. The price is said to be $1,050,000. R. W. Thompson, former Secretary of the Navy, has sued J. & W. Seligman, New York bankets, for $40,000, claiming they converted to their own use $15,000 worth of stock to which he subscribed. The boiler of one of the steam launches of the battleship Texas, off Boston, blew up while it was alongside of the battleship, and a number of men, including two officers and a surgeon, were injured, none fatally. The Knights of Pythias have raised $12,000 for a monument to John F. Rathbone. the founder of the order. It will be placed in New Forest cemetery, in Utica, the owners of the cemetery donating a plot c.f 10,000 feet. Archibald M. Allerton, a pioneer in the live stock trade,'is dead at Moore's Fork. N. Y., aged 75 years. He built the first stock yards in New York City, also yards at West Albany, at Suspension Bridge, the National stock yards in East St. Louis and the stock yards in Toledo. His family holds a large interest in the Chicago stock yards. The centennial of the launching of the United States frigate Constitution was celebrated in Boston. First there was a naval parade participated in by the sailors and marines from the United States ships Massachusetts, Texas, lowa, New York and Brooklyn, the naval brigade and the naval organizations. Exercises were held in Old South Church. Gov. Wolcott presided, and addresses were given by the chairman. Secretary of the Navy Long and Mayor Quincy. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge was the orator of the day. The exercises were varied by the singing of patriotic songs by several hundred school children. In the evening the vessels of the North Atlantic squadron and other vessels in the harbor were illuminated. The celebration closed with a display of fireworks in the North End Park.