Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1897 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Mrs. Jennie June Croly has been appointed an inspector of public schools at New York. The American Horse Meat Company has been licensed at Kearny, N. J. Its product is to be shipped to Europe. Sixty-five out of 102 New York publishers have granted the Typographical Union’s demand for a nine-hour day. Walter S. Walsh, head of the firm of Walter S. Walsh & Co., wholesale shoe dealers of Philadelphia, committed suicide. ' The body of a man supposed to be Christian J. Ansen of Milwaukee was found hanging in the woods near Constantia, N. Y. . Trunk line railroads are said to have secured control of nearly the entire water front of Greater New York and to be freezing out the lighterage and barge concerns. James Cave, a printer living at Paterson, N.’J., has been notified that he has fallen heir to a fortune of $30,000 by the death of his grandfather, James D. Cave, in western Missouri. The Rev. David T. Howell of the Protestant Episcopal Church at Monticello, N. Y., is serving a sentence of five days’ imprisonment in the county jail for choking and beating his wife. It is announced that New York and Boston capitalists, together with George Vandyke of Lancaster, N. H., have formed a syndicate for the purchase of large lumber interests in the East. George D. Farra, aged 55 years, was murdered during the night in the kitchen of his residence in 'Wilmington. An unsuccessful attempt was made to bum the house. Robbery was the object. The New York Biscuit Company has just purchased the plant of the Queen City Cracker Company in Cincinnati, 0., making the second manufacturing concern it has secured there within ten days. Judge North, as surrogate of Genessee County, has dismissed the contest over the will of William Lampson, the Leroy, N. Y., banker, who died Feb.-14, leaving an estate of over $500,000, all but about $35,000 of which he bequeathed to Yale University.