Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1883 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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The widow of the late Marshall Jewell died suddenly of heart disease. The New York Central road settled witn Mary Daniels for injuries received in the Spuyten Duyvil disaster by paying her $29,000. Her original demand was for SIOO, 000. Gilbert L. Croweli, lately President of the Empire Mining Company of Utah, has made an assignment, showing liabilities of $664,960, and assets of $51,170. He expend ed on the mine $450,000 of trust funds belonging to the heirs of Mra John H. TalmanAt a packing-box factory in New York, Mrs. Bernheimer fell through a skylight upon a rip-saw in rapid motion, and was instantly cut in two. Norwich, Conn., was severeljoshaken by an earthquake the other evening, and the amazement of the people was heightened by a dazzling meteor rushing, at nearly the same time, across the sky. fi. H. Fox & Co., extensive glass manufacturers in Oneida county, N. Y.,have made an assignment to secure $150,000. J/oiiis P, Carman, late Secretary of the Manhattan Fire Insurance Company at Now York, is missing, and his accounts with the concern are short $40,000. A jury at Buffalo gave the Lake Shore road 3'judgment against Erie county for $2,000 for the burning of a passenger car by a mob in the riots of 1877. Two boys, Mitchell and McDonald, fougW a prize battle at Philadelphia, the father pf one of the lads acting as the second to bis ow"n son. McDonald was badly

Dullness pervades the glass trade at p’trrfmrgh and prices have. materially en off. Owing to the depreerion the Excelsior Glass Company closed their works for an indefinite period.