Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1897 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Charles Burgess was electrocuted at Auburn, N. Y., for the murder of Henry V. Whitlock at Sterling, N. Y., in August, 1895. The cruiser Brooklyn, although ready to leave the New York dry dock, may be detained until the new year by some slight changes which are contemplated. By the explosion pf a “dinkey” engine on the new street ear line of the Titusville Traction Company, near East Titusville, Pa., four men were seriously Injured, two fatally. Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs was seriously injured while superintending the hanging of tapestries in her New York residence. A tuck flew into her eye, lacerating the cornea, and she may lose the sight of it. Representative Belden of New York, one of the veteran members of the House, was seriously injured Monday afternoon by falling down the marble stairs leading from the floor of the House to the basement of the capitol at Washington. A gold trust is the latest novelty in Jersey City. The official name under which the concern is incorporated is the Menlo Trading Company. The incorporators are Charles N. King, Nelson R. Vanderhoof and Augustus C. Kellogg, all of Jersey City. These men are supposed to be agents of the bonanza kings, who will manage the trust. The articles of incorporation state that the object of the company is to acquire and purchase gold mines and establish factories for the treatment of ores. It was said that the new company will include .the owners of the principal mines in California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana and Mexico, and that the aim of these capitalists is to control the gold output of the United States. Emanuel J. Lasar and his wife Helena were arraigned before a United States commissioner in New York upon a charge of having smuggled 8100,000 worth of diamonds into this country. The diamonds were seized by custom house officers and Deputy United States’Marshals in the office of Max J. Lasar, a diamond merchant. Emanuel J. Lasar is the brother of Max Lasar. The custom house authorities think that they have an equal Interest in the jewelry store. Emanuel J. Lasar has made frequent trips to Europe and his wife always accompanied him. “There has been some wholesale smuggling going on,” said Collector Bidwell, “by what I think is an organized gang. Lasar and his wife, I think, are the most important members of tlie band.” Some of the leading jewelers insist that half a million dollars’ worth of diamonds has been smuggled into New York within the last six months. The success of the smugglers has emboldened them until it has been for some time an open secret in the trade thnt diamonds were smuggled ashore from almost every steamship.