Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1898 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Rev. Dr. T. De Witt Talmage was married in Pittsburg to Mrs. Eleanor M. Collier, widow of 5 the late Col. Collier. The ceremony was performed at -Mrs. McCutcheon’s residence by Rev. W. J. Robinson of the United Presbyterian Church. M. J. Cramer, S. T. D., LL. D., former minister to Denmark and Switzerland, and brother-in-law of Gen. U- S. Grant, died suddenly at Carlisle, Pa., of neuralgia of the heart, aged 05 years. For the last six months he had been a professor at Dickinson College. Actor Edward Radcliffe, recently convicted at New York of wife beating, has been held for perjury for declaring at the recent trial that he had never been married before. His first wife produced in court her marriage certificate, which is alleged to show that Rgtcliffe is guilty of perjury and bigamy. A rumor circulated iu Wall street that the Northern Pacific Railroad Company had purchased the Manitoba and Northwestern of Canada was denied at the office of the Northern Pacific. Over half the first mortgage bonds of the company have been sold, though, and it is believed the Canadian Pacific has obtained control. An old scandal within the Roman Catholic church was revived in the Supreme Court in Brooklyn, when Father Francis Dent of the Friars Minor of the Order of St. Francis brought suit for SIOO,OOO damages against Archbishop Michael A. Corrigan, Bishop Joseph L. Keane, William T. Schley, a lawyer, and Annacietus de Angelus, the head of the order. With a deafening crash a portion of the east wing of the state house at Philadelphia, Pa., fell. No harm was done to the historic building, as the arches which collapsed were not connected with it, a section of the wing next to the east wall of Independence hall having been torn out under the restoration plans now being carried out. The accident was due to the exposed state of the building. The New England cotton mill strike spreads daily, and now has occurred the first break iu the I’awtuxet valley in Rhode Island, where as many operatives are employed as in New Bedford, One hundred and twenty-five weavers employed in the Centerville* cotton mill have refused to go to work, having been cut an average of 10 per cent. At Fall River the refusal of the Weavers’ Union to grant the weavers of the King Philip mills permission to strike has increased the chances of a resumption of work there, and it is likely that an attempt will be made to start all departments save those in which, there is a strike at an early date. At the iron works office the management reported that the majority of the striking frame spinners have returned to work, and the trouble is practically ended. * Sudden activity and a heavy ndvnnee on the New York stock exchange in the stocks of the New York Central and Hudson, River. Railroad and the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad were Accompanied by a report that there was to be practically a uni oh of the two lines. The gist of the report was that the stock of the Lake Shore, which sold at 18G, was to be taken over by the New Y’ork Central, which will pay 200 for it in some new security to be issued. William K. Vanderbilt is said to be the head and front of the movement to consolidate the two roads and operate them as one. He is chairman of the board of directors of the Lake Shore and the largest stockholder in the rond, and knowing minutely the workings of the New York Central, he thinks that a consolidation of the two lines might be advantageous.