Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1906 — From Far and Near. [ARTICLE]

From Far and Near.

B. B. Mitchell, s stock broker of San Francisco, Cal., has closed his doors. His liabilities are SIOO,OOO. Mrs. D. Stuart Null of Wellsboro, Pa., was killed in a runaway accident. Her husband and Miss Emma Mathers were bady injured. Miss Goldberg, aged 22, a sister of B. B. Goldberg, a merchant of New Yerk, was probably fatally burned at their winter home at Thomasville, Ga. About 150 gutters, pattern-makers, machine operators and finishers employed by A. B. Kirschbaum & Co., clothing manufacturers at Philadelphia, are on strike for the eight-hour day. The Board of Public Safety at Louisville, Ky., ordered that the police regulations regarding the standing in aisles and blockading of passages In theaters must be strictly enforced. Walter A. Florer of Gray Horse, O. T., well known as a trader among the Osage Indians, died in Denver from tuberculosis of the brain. Ths announcement was made of the sale of the beautiful home site In Pasadena known as Carmelita to L. V. Harkness, ths Standard Oil magnate, for fl8(MX)0. Charles W. Hecker of Chicago and John Kelly of Memphis, employed on the enxineerinc boat Bamnee, wars murdered and robbed near St. Joeeph, La., by a negro named Asa Bee, who was captured. N