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

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Mrs. Nack, the New York murderess, has confessed the murder of William Guldensuppe and implicated her lover, Martin Thorn. She told her story in detail in court. By the collapse of a three-story brick building which was being remodeled at the south end in Boston, four men were injured, one of whom, it is said, will probably die. The New Jersey supreme court has affirmed the sentence of eighteen months’ imprisonment against J. Dixon Cunningham, a Chicago lawyer, convicted of embezzlement. The Board of United States General Appraisers at New York has decided that the tariff act went into effect at 4 o’clock p. m., July 24, 1897, and that goods entered before that hour are dutiable under the old law. Charles A. Dana left an estate valued at between $1,600,000 and .$1,2(H),000. His wife is given all the property, except the stock in the New York Sun. which is left to his son Paul,, in trust for the widow and children. At Dover, N. n., upon the opening of the trial of Joseph E. Kelley for the munder of Cashier Stickney of the Somersworth National Bank, Kelley retracted his plea of not guilty and pleaded guilty to a charge of murder in the first degree. Three men blew open the safe in Heine’s bank.at Silver Creek. N. Y., securing $lO,000 in money and $4,000 in jewelry. They afterward attempted to rob the safe in a neighboring mill, but were frightened away. The watchman was beaten badly. Alfred 11. Brooks, 58 years old, who was for thirty-two years at the head of the United States internal revenue department in New York, is dead at his home in Asbury Park, N. J., of cancer of the tongue, brought on by poison administered to him in an illicit distillery upon which he made' a raid three years ago. A bill is to be introduced in the New York Legislature to divide the State, by divorcing the counties of New York, Kings, Queens, Richmond, Suffolk, Westchester, Orange, Columbia, Putnam, Dutchess. Ulster, Greene, Rockland. Albany and Rensselaer, and part of Schoharie County, and forming them into the State of Manhattan.