Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1883 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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The United States Iron and Tin Plate Works, atDemmler Station, Pa,, were destroyed by fire, causing a loss of SIOO,OOO. Near Wallingford, Conn., two young m£n and a young woman were killed, and another young woman severely wounded by their sleigh being struck by a locomotive. A clerk in a hotel in New York found a guest nearly dead from the effect of coalgas taken with a view to self-destruction. All attempts failed to restore him until a negro porter offered himself for transfusion oi blood. A quart of the red fluid saved the wou’d-be suicide. Valentine’s knitting-mill at Bennington, Vt, valued at SIOO,OOO, was destroyed by fire. Many complaints have been made against the New York Central road to the Railroad Commissioners because of discrimmations in freight ratgs. A New York court refused a mandamus compelling the Mayor to grant a license to Mr. Morse for the production of his “Passion Play.” Gail Hamilton has been offered the Trusteeship of the Massachusetts State Workhouse. Express Messenger Smith, on the Albany and Susquehanna train, was shot twice by a robber, but Smith still held the funds—s4o,ooo. Matilda Panlitsch, a professional singer, who lost a foot by an accident on the New York Central road, was awarded $13,C00 damages by a New York city jury. ~-

■ German Catholic Church of the Most Holy Redeemer at New York, under the care of the Sisters of Notre Dame, fire under the stairway in the second story caused a panic among the children in attendance, who rushed for the exits, causing the breaking of the balustrade, thus sending the surging mass to the floor below. Sixwere taken out dead, nine died after being rescued, and others lie dying in the neighboring tenements. A clandestine Masonic organization in Connecticut is conferring degrees up to the thirty-third, in one or two evenings, for ♦lO. «, A New York dispatch of Feb. 22 states that the seventeenth victim of the New York school-house horror had died, and several others were not expected to recover. Some of the Sophomore class of Dartmouth College “larded” the seats of the faculty in the chapel, and suspensions have been pronounced At Milford, Mass., thirteen children were thrown from a double-runner, which struck a tree, and six of them were seriously injured. A suit commenced in Boston to recovera stolen bond has led to an exposure of the theft of >600,000 in securities from a safe deposit-institution last year. A prominent physician of Philadelphia is charged with having in his possession >BO,OOO of the booty.