The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-10-29


ism in public schools, and listened to the
annual address by Rev. DR.. Fulton.
business Failures.
NEW YORK, Oct. 20.-Issac p Warren
and VIM. III. Wyman have made general
benefit of their creditors.
Buttrick s. Co., dealers i'm fashion plates,
patterns, etc, and VIM. Ettinger, of 81 Mer-
Ger street, dealer in furs, are announced |
suspended. Buttrick &c Cos liabilities are
set down at $500, 600, and assets beliyed to-
be small. Ettinger's liabilities are $1O9,-
600, and assets about $50, 900. He has Of |
tered his creditors thirty cents ON the dol |
lar.
Business MAN fn Trouble.
NEW YORK, Oct. 20.-Mr. VIM. Edin- I
ger, furniture dealer, Mercer street, 1t is |
said has called meeting of his creditors.
Fires.
MILWAUKEE, Oct. 2O.-A fire at River
Falls, Wisconsin, destroyed the Metropoli
tan hotel. Hown's furniture mandatory,
Barr's drug store and other buildings. Loss,
$3O, coo.
Hardware McrcRaanfs' Association.
| CINCINNATTI, Oct 2O.-The Western job
bers' association ism in secret session at
the Grand hotel, in this city. Delegations
| from all the prominent cities of the West
and South are in attendance. Vice Presi-
dent Jno. A. Score, of Milwaukee,, presi-
| des.
n Murderer sentenced
| NEW YORK, Oct. 20.-Jacob Stander
man, convicted yesterday of shooting
Louisa Sidenwald, who had rejected his
/ offer of marriage was sentenced to day to
be hanged December 10. The judge char
/ acterized the defense OF insanity excited by
| passion as tiimsy pretense.
Centennial Train.
BUFFALO, Oct 2O.-The first centennial
1 train left here tor Philadelphia this morn
| ing. The cars were gaily decorated, and
| there was much enthusiasm. A dispatch
| from Emporium says, the train arrived
there on time, 120 miles ii, 3 1s hours. The
stations along the line We're gaily decorated
and salutes fired, etc. The excursionists
| numbered n hundred representative men
i from Buffalo and about the same number
| from other cities.
Engineers Convention.
NEW York, Oct. 2O.-'rhe annual con-
vcntion of the brotherhood of locomotive
engineers was begun here to-day, NJ. w.
HOlbrook. of this city, presiding. Among
those present were Robinson. OF Morricks-
vile, Ohio, Geo. M. Foye, chaplain, Indi-
annapolis. Proceedings were opened with
prayer by Rev. L. +. Moore, after which a
letter was read from Mayor Wickhanl, ex-
pressing his regret at being unable to attend
An address of welcome was read by Clark
son Pottar, and replied to by LIST Grana En-
gineer S. L. Ingram, of cleveland. Grand
Chief Peter Arthur, of Cleaveland, then
read the annual address. lie called on
those present, before doing anything, to
.sthank God for the protection and aid be-
slowed upon them during the past year.
Notwithstanding tie many disadvantages
the organization had labored under, the
. membership had steadily increased, and
six new chapters had ben granted Mo-
berly Division, No. Sc, Indiana, and Knox
vile Division, No. 100. scattered two years
: ago, have been feorganiZed, and are now In
, u fiourishing condition. There are at pres
r ent 1S9 divisions. In regard to the proposed
reduction of wages. engineers did not think
it right or just that they should be called
= upon to make mp losses Sustained by EN-
5 gaging in wild speculations and convention
took recess.
: Railway Items.
ST. LOUIS. Oct. 2O.-Instead of consolida-
e tion of the Vanlali9 and indianapolis and
a and st. Louis roads; it has been agI eed to
q pool their net earnings. They viii main-
l tain separate organizations, but the net
i earnings will be divided in proportion tc
5 the value or the stock and capital employ
] ed i'll running the roads.
t VIM. Bond, receiver of the Missouri.
!. Kansas' and Texas Railway, and z. Riggs
: and Jas. III. Stcbbins,7 from Paris, represent
tatives OF Foreign bondholdcrs, have ar
. rived here for consultation, looking to the
:, restoration of the road to the company.
:, Matters felating to the National railroad
e convention here Oh the 23tf are rapidly ap-
preaching completion. Letters from Gen
; Bean, Gov. Porter, of Tennessee, Governor
e Beverage, OF Illinois, Nj. G. Kerr, of In
't dianapolis, and prominent gentlemen ir
r all speaking most fayorably of the enter
q prise.
d NEW YORK, Oct. 20.-Tile great trot
b ting match for 5000 n side. between
n Prospero and Honest Dutchman, came of
70 to-day at Prospect Park. Prospero wor
Ie in the first heat, Honest Dutchman dis
u tanced.
FOrgers of Stamps.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 20.--Beforc u. S
Commissioner Smith, this morning, wa
heard the cases of John A Wilson, Carlo
r. Cavini. Gicvannc Petroni and jaime.
5. Davidson. upon charges Of counterfeitin,
'e and altering postage stamps Of foreign gov
rs ernmetts. The parties were arrested tili
le morning. The stamps that are counter
d feited are of the governments of Nicarau
id qua, Greece, Guiana, Bavaria and Hanover
t Masked AGurslerers.
"a LITTLE Rock, Oct. 20.-The Sheriff O
y Arkansas county left Dewitt, tile COUNT
> seat, on Sunday y.lnorning, in charge of TIVE
l- prisoners, sentenced to the penitentiary
y | One of the men was under sentence o
= death for the murder of Inman, year ago
- While waiting for a boat at st. Charles
= band Of masked men took charge of tn
4 sheriff and his posse, and shot and kille,
Z one of the prisoners, who was sitting b,
. the fire in chains.
- - Unxversalist Convention.
:. LINN, Mass, Oct. 2O.-The Universal
Is ist's Convention of the United States me
q this morning. 1t is composed of dele
Al gates, lay and clerical, from one State Cor
X vention. a large number Of whom wer
a present. No important change in eiuca
s. tiona1 institutions during the year had os
rs CURED. The deuoIninational investment
Il in educational institutions exceed thre
Or millions, and yet there were none OF then
1e but felt their usefulness curtailed by lack {
" means. The general state or the churc
he and mission work was progressing, IN
~ signs were favorable for continued procres.
a DENVER, Oct. 21.-A most atrociou
murder was unearthed here to-day.
small tenement house iu the eastern po
Nv tion of the city. which had recently bee
g. by some Italian musicians, was yisite
Of by the pp1ica, TO detect the cause Of
Us stencil that appeared TO issue from /
or They discovered in the cellar Of Il
it buildi g the dead and putrid bodies .
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