Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1883 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

EASTERN. While she was kneeling in prayer, a rpark fell upon and Ignited the dress of Mra Ann Roland, of Bridgeport, Conn., and she was so badly burned that she died the following morning. The white lead works at Washington, Pa., were burned, causing a loss of s9o,ooft Charles D. Erby, the leprous patient in the Salem (Mass.) almshouse, who contracted the disease in the Sandwich islands, died the other day. Eighteen thousand people of Boston attended a “testimonial* to their distinguished townsman, Mr. John I* Sullivan, the pugilist Petroleum advanced on the Pittsburgh exchange, last week, to ft 10, the highest figure of the year. The remains of the late Charles Boehner, Sr., of Indianapolis, were cremated in Lemoyne's furnace at Washington, Pa The remains of John Howard Payne arrived, at New York the other day, and were thence transported to Washington, where they were placed in custody of the Oak Hill Cemetery authorities until June 9, the ninety-first anniversary of the poet’s birth, when the final funeral ceremonies will occur. In a game of poker at a Philadelphia club, Thomas A Scott, Jr., held four queens and Mr. John Tucker a straight flush. Betting ran high between the parties until the pot reached $80,00(1 Of course it was captured by the man with the royal flush, much to the disgust of the holder of the four queens.