Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1898 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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The New York Senate has passed the House resolution censuring United States Senator Murphy because he voted for the Teller silver resolution. i The great strike of textile workerfe in New England may spread go as to embrace nearly every operative in that territory, of whom there are 148,000. The Massachusetts cotton mills at Lowell, with a branch plant at Lindale, Ga., has decided to take steps looking to the extension of its business in that State. L. E. Cooley and the party of engineers sent out by a Chicago syndicate to examine into the feasibility of completing the Nicaragua canal have returned to New York. The passenger and freight steamboat Ericcson, which plies between Philadelphia and Baltimore, sunk in the Delaware river off Wilmington. Sixty passengers were taken off. John Wannmaker, it is reported, is negotiating for the lease of the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York and intends to erect the largest department store in the world on its sitd. Henry Kline, chief of police of McKeesport, Pa., committed suicide by shooting himself because the council refused to confirm his appointment and rejected his back pay claim for SSOO. By a vote of 8,670 out of 10,000 shares the National City Bank of Boston was placed in voluntary liquidation. The deposits and business of the bank have been already transferred to the Eliot National Bank and the president and cashier will now collect the assets and the loans of the bank, after which it will be determined what dividend shall be paid to the shareholders. To the Paris exposition of 1900 via the %istallment route is the latest venture in the tourist line. Offices have been opened In New York, Philadelphia and Boston where individuals who contemplate a trip to the Paris show and are not quite certain how they may be financially fixed two years hence may secure reservation of passage, hotel accommodations and other facilities in the gay French capital by paying In advance sums ranging from $5 to sls monthly 7 according to the probable duration of the trip and the nature of the accommodations desired. The “installment visitors” will not go in a body as tourists, but will be enabled to travel singly or in pariy during such portion of the exposition period ns may suit their convenience. In the event of any of the subscribers finding it impossible to carry out their plan, their money will be returned to them, less a uomiual fee for the clerk hire involved. It is said that several thousand people linve already signified their intention of availing themselves of this simple and easy method of laying by the money to carry out their plans,.