Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1883 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

(Telegraphic Summary.) eastern. In accordance with the instructions of Got. Butler, the Massachusetts Board of Health, Lunacy and Charities has assumed control of the Tewksbury Almshouse, appointing’ a temporary Superintendent . The collapse of a pillar in the Keystone colliery, at Ashland, Pa,, caused a great fall of coal and a rush of gas, which, coming in contact with the miners' lamps, caused an explosion, killing three men, and wounding two others. Albert H. Beals, a merchant of Boston, shot his partner, A. Perley Pickets, through the head, on board a Pall Biver steamer, having mistaken him for a burglar as he moved about the state-room they were occupying conjointly. Dr. Henry Bachus, the pioneer educator of idiots, died suddenly at Syracuse, N.t Cardinal McCloskey received President Sullivan, of the Irish League, and other gentlemen at New York, and indorsed the proceedings of the Philadelphia Convention. The safe of the Providence (B. I.) Gas Company was robbed of two boxes of pay-envelopes containing #I,OOO. A strike of the iron-workers of Pittsburg on June 1 appears to be inevitable. A consultation took place between representatives of the manufacturers and the Amalgamated Association, and neither showed a Disposition to recede from the ground they had taken, the employers insisting that there should be a reduction of wages at the beginning of the labor-contract year, and the workmen protesting that they will not submit to the reduction. The conference adjourned without reaching an agreement