Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1883 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. East. Ovington Bros.’ china-ware house in Brooklyn N. Y.,* was destroyed by fire. Loss estimated at #250,000. William A. Beaver, editor of “The Drawer” In Harper'*, died at Mount Vernon, N. Y. H. F. Gye claims to have been robbed, on a train between New York and Philadelphia, of #75,000 worth of diamonds belonging to Mme. Albani, beside a large amount of his own personal property and checks ’ - By affirming a verdict of I*6oo obtained by a" widow against an insurance company, the Supreme Court of. Massachusetts has established the light of an insured man to walk on a railway track without violating the conditions of his policy. F. B. Gowen was re-elected President of the Reading road, Vanderbilt’s agest giving him 75,000 votes Thomas Donahue, a fanner of Williamstown, Mass, has petitioned to be placed in a lunatic asylum, on account of a burning desire to kill somebody. A dividend of 25 percent, has been made by the Tribune Association of New York, It appears that Whit el aw Reid and his relatives own 143 shares out of 200. The inChmbrancQ on the new building Is only #IOO,OOO. A boiler explosion in a blast-furnace at Bethlehem, Pa-, killed four men and funded several others The auction, sale of pews in Beecher’s church netted #37,000. The mills along the river at Camden, Maine, are running on half time for lack of water—something never before known The -Hon. Dot M. Morrill died at Augusta, Me., on the 10th inst., at the age of 08 years. Mr. Merrill has served three terms os Governor'of Maine, and sixteen years, in the United States Senate. MSss Alice Livingston, of New York, who sued a merchant named Henry Fleming for breach of promise, was awarded #75,000. The verdict wpf followed by deafening applause, which the court was unable to suppr6B#T£; ' The City Bank, of Jersey City, has suspended on account of overdrafts by the President, cashier and book-keeper to the amount of the capital stock. West. Ex-Senator John B. Henderson and Tfo 31wygmssman Don Morrison Indulged in a knock-down and hair-pulling in a St Louis court-room. Bystanders palled them apart before any Serious damage was done. Nor thern Ohio was considerably disturbed by an earthquake The canal within the limits of Cincinnati has been 'declared a nuisance, and a bill will be reported in the Legislature to sell that portion of the bed, which is valued at #3,000,000, and reserve the proceeds as a fund to keep the canal system in repair. What was known as the 'Telegraph block in Detroit, on the corner of Griswold and Congress stieets, was ruined by fire. At the first alarm twenty-five employes of the Western Union Company found their means of escape cut off, but all were fortunate enongh to reach the ground by the firemen’s ladder* Near Ulysses, Neb., Mrs. Thompson, while* Insane, put poison In the tea, and herself, husband and an adopted son died in a short time 1 Near Mill Creek, Indian Territory, Alexander Hamilton murdered his wife and a-nian named Smith and then committed suicide. John Cody, a Wisconsin veteran, died at;Manistee, Mich., after fasting 108 , daja His disease was ulceration of the stomach, and during his fast he lost eightythree pounds Sixteen millions of dollars were expended in building in Chicago in 18821 The number of buildings erected was 8,113. A severe shock Of earthquake, lasting about thirty seconds, was experienced on the morning of the 11th in Missouri, Kentucky and Southern Illinois, rousing people from their sleep. The Pennsylvania Company bought at auction the Columbus, Chicago and Indiana Central road for #13,800,000. South. Treasurer Polk, for whose delivery on Tennessee soil the Legislature offered a reward of #51,000, was arrested at San Antonio, Texas, and released on a writ of habeas corpus. He then started for Mexico, and was again arrested by a Deputy United States'Marshal just before reaching the Rio Grande. offered the officer #B,OOO to let him go, but the latter was incorruptible. Detectives,Price and Cameron, who accepted bribe# from Marshall T. Polk, to run their prisoner Into Mexico, were arrested at Ban Antonio, and will- be prosecuted as accessories. Cleveland papitalists have organized a company to' build, at Chattanooga, the largest stove factory in the South. The Hon. JE- B. Wasbburne met with a painful, accident, at San Antonio, Texas, being thrown from his horse while riding.