Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1897 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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New York City plumbers are organizing a combine. J. Pierpont Morgan is said to be promoting a plan to form a sewer pipe trust. According to a New York dispatch, a big piafao trust is in process of formation. Mrs. Ballington Booth was formally ordained as a minister of the gospel at New York. Lnke Usher, president of the National Bank of Potsdam, N e Y., has been indicted on the charge of misappropriating $700,000. Mrs. Emmeline H. Rudd, widow of Commodore John Rudd, was arrested at New York, charged with stealing jewelry in a boarding house. -css —— — John E. Searles, secretary and treasurer of the American Sugar Refining Company, better known as the sugar trust, has, according to a story told in Wall street, purchased the Columbia and Maryland Railway, and has deposited $3,000,000 to bind the bargain. Fire destroyed McConlough’s hardware store, Beale's dry goods store, Heilman’s house furnishing store, the Armstrong Water Company's building, Merchants’ National Bank and the office of Attorney Boss Reynolds at Kitanning, Pa. A number of other buildings were badly damaged. The loss was $60,000. The wife of Antonio Milagno died at Erie, Pa. Antonio was drunk, and went to the cellar to get more liquor. He fell and his wife came to his assistance with a lamp, but he threw a hammer at her head and missed the mark. He then came upstairs with a can of oil and tar, which he threw in his wife’s face. In an instant the mixture caught fire from the lamp and she was enveloped in flames. George W. Schiller, who arrived in New York on the Atlas Line steamer Adirondack from Port Limon; tells a story of alleged outrage that may call for interference by the Washington authorities. Mr. Schiffer is an American citizen and a resident of Buffalo, N. Y. He was superintendent of the gold mine of the Puma Mining Company at Honda, in the United States of Colombia, and says that through ignorance of the customs of the country he failed to turn in a certificate of the Quantity of native liquors sold at the mining company’s stores. For this offense, he says, nine armed soldiers entered his house in the middle of the night and attempted to drag him to jail. He resisted a#d kept them at bay till morning. Subsequently, Mr. Schiffer says, he was dragged slowly in the fierce sun by the longest route to the court house at Victoria, twen-ty-five miles distant from Honda. A rope was tied about his neck and he was jeered at, insulted and otherwise ill-treated by the natives. Mr. Schiffer, after his release, instituted with the United States minister at Bogota a suit for $25,000 damages against the Colombian Government.