Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1898 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Alfred Riedel of Baltimore has interested the faculty oLJohns Hopkins University in a project to_reach the north pole with a submarine bout. He estimates that the trip can be made in a week. The copper, b(-§£s and iron works and engine and machine constructing establishment of George F. Ott in Philadelphia was completely destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $140,000; $115,000 on contents and $25,000 on buildings. The New York Senate, by a vote of 25 to 9, adopted the Assembly resolution in favor of the general government taking such action to restore peace in Cuba as seemed wise. The belligerency substitute introduced by the Democratic Senators was defeated. A train on the Maine Central Railway was wrecked near Orono station. Two persons were killed outright and 27 were injured. Of the latter two more are nowdead and it is-expected that several others will not survive. The derailment was caused by spreading rails. The Alvord House, a five-story brick structure, the largest hotel in Gloversville, N. Y.. burned the other morning. The fire was discovered at 7 o’clock. Every room was occupied and many narrow escapes occurred. Five lives were lost. The loss to the property will reach SIOO,000. An “anti-treating” bill has been introduced in the New York Senate, making it a misdemeanor to “treat” any person to liquor in any saloon, barroom or club room. The first offense is punishable by a fine of $5, the secoud offense by imprisonment of not less than five nor more than twenty days. A crazy man, believed from letters in his possession to be Charles Heyu of New York, demanded $5,000,000 from the cashier of the Colorado National Bank at Denver. The cashieri said he would get the money from the vaults. He then telephoned to police headquarters and Heyn was locked up. A sensation* was stirred up in New York financial circles by the sudden resignation of Cashier William J. Quinlan Jr. of the Chemical National Bank and the publication of his confession that he had loaned $393,000 on doubtful, if not worthless, security without the sanction of. any of the bank’s officers. A bill has been introduced in the Massachusetts House to prohibit the Impositions of fines for imperfections in weaving, and to prohibit deductions from wages on account of imperfections, except with n written notice of the imperfections and nn exhibit of the same to the workman. A fine of SIOO for violations of this law is proposed.