Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1898 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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The Buffalo Beet Sugar Company has been incorporated in New York with $600,t)00 capital stock. John Lumberson, said to have been the last survivor but one of the war of 1812, died at Baltimore, aged 91 years. The Fairpont Manufacturing Company of New Bedford, Mass., with a capital of $825,000 and employing 1,000 hands, is to go out of existence. A syndicate of New-Yorkers has obtained a concession to control for twentyfive years the exportation and importation of live stock from and to the Republic of Honduras. Henry George’S widow has sued the Pennsylvania Railroad Company for $5,000 damages. She says she was injured by stepping in a hole in the floor of the company’s Philadelphia station. •“Elizabeth Flanders and Fanny Eaglehorn, the Indian girls who tried to burn the girls’ building at the Indian school at Carlisle, Pa., pleaded guilty and were sentenced to one year and six mouths. Before April the Lake Shore and the New York Central railroads will have completed a belt line railroad at Buffalo, which will provide both lines with ample facilities for handling through freight at that point. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has been awarded the contract for transporting the herd of reindeer to be used in Alaska across the continent, notwithstanding the bid of the Canadian Pacific was $1,400 lower. Mrs. Annie C. George, widow oT the late Henry George, has been awarded a verdict of SSOO against the Pennsylvania Railroad Company because of a sprained ankle received from a fall in the company’s station at Philadelphia. Members of the Banda Rossa, which went to pieces in New York City a fiw weeks ago after an unsatisfactory career, have reached such straits that they have been forced to accept positions with the contractors who clear the streets. New York claims td have a musical prodigy in the person of the G-year-old daughter of a Polish barber. She is said to read classical music with readiness and executes Gounod and Chopin in a manner to put all other prodigies to shame. An many of unemployed men camped around the State House at Boston, Mass., In order to be in line.to register for civil service examinations in the mechanical department in the morning, but 1,000 wore turned away after the lists were full. A decision in the much-discussed brandy cherry ease was handed down by the customs board of classification at New York in favor of the importers. The surveyor in Cincinnati had ruled that the merchandise should be regarded as “brandy containing cherries,” rather than “cherries preserved in spirits.” The explosion of whisky in bon'd during a fire in the immense plant of the Chautauqua Lake Ice Company and Union Storage Company at Pittsburg, Pa., caused the walls of the seven-story building to fall and thirteen persons were killed nnd a score injured. The number of people known positively to have been killed is thirteen. Gen. John Cocbrnne died at his home In New York. Gen. Cochrane was an oldtime soldier. On July 17, 18G2, while with the army of the Potomac, he was made brigadier general. In 1864 he was nominated for Vice President of the United States on the independent Republican ticket, Gen. John C. Fremont being the candidate for President.