Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1898 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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James Flannigan and Patrick McNulty of New York drank corrosive sublimate for whisky, with the result that the former is dead and the latter dying. The Overman Wheel Company of oiicopee Falls, Mass., has made an osgiihment. The liabilities are placed at $539,000 and the assets at $1,318,000: '■ The mill operatives at Fall River, Mass., have voted to accept the reduction, as it would not be good business-policy to enter into a strike at the present time, \ At Haverhill, Mass., William polan was stabbed and killed by his brother-in-law. He was ajtftiut 70 years old. Both had been drirking. ’ ■ “Deacon V Stephen V. White, the wellknown stock broker, announces that he has paid every dollar due creditors at the time of his latest failure and has applied for readmission to the New York Stock Exchange. In Trenton, N. J., the manufacturing potters have agreed to restore, until Feb, 1, the 12% per cent, cut made in 1894 in the wages of all their employes. Meanwhile a uniform scale of wages for the entire coruntry will be worked for. Depositors and shareholders of the Chestnut Street Trust and Savings Company at Philadelphia continue to sign agreements, declaring their approval of the plan for the voluntary liquidation of the affairs of the two institutions. With the sanction of District Attorney Olcutt. Judge Newburger dismissed in New York eleven indictments for fraud and misdepieanor against Edward E. Gedney, former president of North River Bank, which failed Nov. 12, 1890. J. Pierpont Morgan and Thomas A. Edison have purchased important water privileges on the Housatonic river at Falls Village, and will erect a number of > the new Edison ore separators. They control valuable ore beds, a canal and other equipment. .