Show TIN HIM or a broker on the new york exchange nw york jan 2 A local paper says the strange acce ot william I 1 rubell the tin broker has been explained pla ined he left the city saturday last and a part of the time since he haa spent in new england and a part in new jersey he to town last night and hie bankers eay he will be at his office on the floor of the metal exchange today one ot the members of the banking linn made alio following statement yesterdays has been in financial for about a week on saturday he lost his licad completely and left alie city hia frienda found him and bad a talk with liim As a result he hag decided to do the only tiling he could welt cocome back and face the music he ha become convinced eliat that is the only thing to do ilia friends are going to rally around him and he will have no trouble or the present at least I 1 believe as do all his friends that if he is not harassed and goes on the exchange as usual he ft ill be on his feet in six months if be had stack to his regular busi he would have been all right it was in speculating in tin that he got caught the market has been steadily going down and the difference in prices named in his contracts for future delivery now and when the contracts were made exhausted his resources it ia im possible sible to tell now aliat his liabilities are Ws assets are small there would have been no trouble had not lewisohn brothers seen fit to precipitate matters this firms claim as for tin purchased and not paid ajr mr russell hasi beliew arranged to take care of the lewisohn claim today death of a famous painter chicago jan 2 jolin B aldir born in 1800 and who was at one time fanos and wealthy died yesterday vest erday atthe hom for incurables blair was a famous painter half a century ago his skill is attested by the fact that his portrait of president taylor is hung in the house gallery he was the first painter of war panoramas and was eminently successful in that branch of art he was the first to paint any great panorama in this city it was pictures of birds of all the world and to accomplish this work he circled the globe twice he was the inventor of the silk bag pas bal luon such as aeronauts aero of today employ fifty years agi he invented a bicycle made on the same lines as the safety biche of today jie added aalt a million dollars to the wealth of a well known pencil manufacturer by inventing the rubber tip pencils he fainted landscapes of countries and pictures of i liepp in almost endless numbers and his auction sales of these were annual events in art circles a quarter of a century ago five years aaa he was stricken with paralysis and three years later bo came blind and also lost los t the str enath of his mind he a ai then placed in the lioma for incurables |