Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1883 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

EASTERN. The late James Elliott, who fell by the pistol of Jere Dunn in Chicago, was buried in New York, with distinguished honors, about 1,500 people following the body to the grave. N. A Dukes, on trial at Uniontown, Pa, for murdering Assistant State Treasurer Nutt, was found to be not guilty. Judge and spectators were amazed at the verdict, and the popular excitement was intense. Dukes and the jury were hung and burned in effigy. Parnell, Egan and Davitt are expected to be present at the convention of the Irish Land League of America at Philadel phla, April 25 and 20. Emmet O’Neill, a broker of Schenectady, N. Y., has swindled people with whom he had business relations out of the total sum of $250,000, in amounts varying from #1,500 tc $12,000, A new telegraph company has been formed in New York, the projectors of which profess an intention of building a line from the city of New York through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois to Chicago. Two students of Columbia College, New York, had arranged to fight a duel, but one of the principals and a number of his friends were arrested as they were setting forth for the place set for the meeting. The two Judson sisters perished in the flames at East Hartford, Conn., by the burning of their housa Serious charges were made against Supervising Architect Hill in connection, with the disbursements for the new Government building at Philadelphia.