Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1898 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Rhode Island Democrats have nominated Daniel Church for Governor. The Victor mill of Cohoes, N. Y., the largest woolen mill in the United States, burned. The Benson Bank, established by the late Judge William Benson of Waterford, Pa., has suspended business. The temperance committee of the Presbyterian Church has adopted a modified report, omitting all mention of Princeton Inn. At Pittsburg, Pa., Col. Samuel Harden Church, author of “Life of Oliver Cromwell,” married Miss Bertha Jean Reinhart. William J. Koerner was sentenced to imprisonment for life for the murder of Rose Redgate, his sweetheart, in New York. All the Bessemer pig iron producers of the Cleveland; Mahoning valley and Shenango iron districts, with one exception,, have entered into a big combination to control output and prices. A syndicate of Eastern financiers plans to raise $200,000,000 with which to secure the independence of Cuba by indemnifying Spain for tfar losses and then floating bonds of the island government. Crowds were at Madison Square Garden to witness tjje contests in the military tournament. Gen. Miles was there in his new uniform. - In the review a detachment of tars from' the monitor Terror were cheered. There were also “three cheers for the Maine.” A lady threw them a large bouquet. The sailors presented arms, and the crowd went wild. Eleven lodgers in the Bowery Mission Lodging-house, conducted at 105 Bowery, New York, by the Christian Herald, were burned to death in the fire which practically ruined the three upper floors of the five-story structure. The others of the 150 occupants escaped by the stairways <jr were taken down on ladders by the firemen when unabltf to climb down the fire escapes. ,