Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1897 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Two men were injured by the cxplo«ion of two pasteboard boxes of celluloid combs in an elevated railway car at New York. J. R. Lamon was probably fatally injured in a collision between a horse car and trolley car in the outskirts of Philadelphia. At West Foint, N. Y., Lieut. Joseph T. Crabbs, Eighteenth Cavalry, was thrown from his horse and badly hurt internally and externally. Mrs. Ann Kelly, aged 65 years, and Miss Mary Baird, aged 80 years, inmates of the'poorhouse at Plainfield, N. J., died from drinking wood alcohol. A wood working qnnchrncry trust has been organized and will be incorporated under the laws of New Jersey, with a capital stock of $4,000,000. Leada Charland, 13 years old; George Morin, aged 15, and Frank Waterman, aged 18, were drowned while playing and skating on thin ice at Gardner, Mass. At Newark, N. J., Julius A. Brose, discount clerk im the State Banking Company, has been arrested on the charge of embezzling $7,200. He admitted his guilt. Ex-Congressman Charles formerly chief justice of the New York Supreme Court, was stricken with parrflysis at Buffalo and died. He was 69 years old. In Boston, Mayor Josiah Quincy was re-elected for two years in the municipal election by a plurality of about 4,500. It was the closest city election ever held there. At Holyoke, Mass., Miss Amelia Koegel, 35 years old, attempted to light a gasoline stove, when there was an explosion. She and a 2-year-old child named Alfred Kenell, were killed. At Camden, N. J., Frank Kirby, a Christian scientist, who refused to call in a physician when his 2-year-old daughter was taken sick with diphtheria, was held by the coroner in SSOO bail to the grand jury. Commissioner Blanchard of the Joint Traffic Association denies the report that the Joint Traflic presidents, at their meeting in New Y’ork, ordered a reduction on export and domestic corn and other rates.

Rev. Janies W. Putnam, pastor of the Trinity Baptist Church,- New Y’ork, has returned a contribution frm.i Tammany's charity fund with a caustic letter and the scriptural injunction, “Thy money perish with thee.” A Boston dispatch gives currency to the remarkable rumor that Emperor William of Germany proposes to go to war with the United States, and that Prince Henry’s destination, instead of being China, is Hawaii and Samoa, which he has orders to seize. .

The directors of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company of Manchester. N. H., at a moethig held at the Boston office of the company, voted to reduce the wages of its employes about 10 per cent on Jau. 1. The Amoskeag plant ’is one of the largest engaged in the manufacture of cotton in the country and employs between 8,000 and 9,000 people. A remarkable proceeding has just come to light in White Plains, showing that there is nothing in the way of committing a perfectly sane man to an insane asylum. The victim is Frank W. Pierce, who does a large business in White Plains. He is married and has a son. He lias also a small fortune in real estate, which he has turned over to his wife. Pierce had been in business in the town since the early ’Bos. No one thought of questioning liis sanity until Sunday morning, Dec. 5, when two attendants from the Hudson River State hospital—the State insane asylum at Poughkeepsie—called aud told him to go with them quietly. Pierce learned then that his wife had secured from Dr. George, Magness and Dr. Charles E. Birch, two well-known physicians of White Plains, a certificate, stating that her husband was insane. Once there, Pierce immediately communicated with bis friends in White Plains. They took the matter up. Judge Lent had Pierce examined by two other physicians than those who had first appeared in the matter. Then the victim was brought down to White Plains. Judge Lent examined Pierce and decided lie was perfectly sane. Judge Lent publicly deplored the fact that he had committed Pierce to the asylum without first seeing him, and released him at once.