Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1898 — Claim Heavy Damages. [ARTICLE]

Claim Heavy Damages.

New York. .June 3.—The owners of the British steamship Foseolia, which was sunk by the United States cruiser Columbia off Fire Island on Sunday last, will soon present to the navy department a claim for damages in the sum of about $200,000. Death of an Author. London, June 3. —Eric Mackay, the author, is dead. He was born, in this city in 1851, and wrote a number of books. < ?