Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1897 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Oil rock fit for fuel has been discovered on a farm near Carthage, Me. Six Mohammedan polygamists have been ordered deported from New York. While trying to save her little son at St. Jean Baptiste, R. 1., Mrs. Arthur Fortin was struck by a train and killed. Alfred Ordway, the portrait painter, died at Melrose, Mass., aged 78 years. He was one of the founders of the Boston Art Club. The-storehouse of the C. A. Woolsey paint and color works, in Jersey City; fell. No one was hurt. The loss to the company will be about $20,000. The Pennsylvania board of pardons has rejected the application for a pardon of Alexander Bcrkmann, the anarchist who shot H. C. Frick during the Homestead strike. William Sidney Wilson, a prominent lawyer and son of the late United States Senator Wilson, committed suicide at his home in Snow Hill, Md., while temporarily insane. Mrs. Susan Gessler Pague has begun suit at Lancaster, Pa., for divorce from her husband, who, while a lieutenant at Fort Sheridan several years ago, shot Col. Crofton. She alleges cruelty and non-support. Rev. David R. Breed, D. D., formerly of Chicago, and now pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Pittsburg, has been requested to accept the chair of sacred rhetoric and elocution in the Western Theological Seminary. Joseph A. lasigi, formerly Turkish consul at Boston, convicted of embezzlement, has been sentenced to serve a term of not more than eighteen nor less than fourteen years in State's prison, with one day solitary confinement and the rest of the term at hard labor. Samuel J. K. Adler of New York has sued his double, Gen. Saul M. Arnold, for $500,000 damages. He charges that Arnold married a Nebraska girl under Adler's name, and that in consequence Mrs. Adler secured a divorce on the charge that Adler had committed bigamy. The problem of how State convicts shall be kept at Work without competing with free labor has seemingly been solved by lhe law which went into effect in New York Jan. 1 of this year. This law provided that all State institutions, departments and political divisions should purchase all their supplies and articles of equipment from the prisons if such could be manufactured there. Since the law went into operation requisitions have been received for over $750,000 worth of goods, which guarantees the continuous employment of convicts. As it costs but $500,000 annually to maintain the prisons, they are therefore made self-sustain-ing under the new system. Speaking of the matter at Albany, Gen. Austin Lathrop, superintendent of State prisons, said: “We are gratified with the result of the first year's working of the new system of convict labor, and I. shall so report to the Legislature. None of the methods of employing convicts during my administration of ten years have been self-supporting with the exception of the new one. An enormous amount of money will be saved to the State.”