Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1883 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

(Telegraphic Summary J EASTERN. Gov. Cleveland has signed the bill which practically repeals what are known as the “Sunday blue laws” of New York. A now metal, discovered by a Boston metallurgist, has, it is claimed, special fitness for telegraph wires, having great conductivity and tenacity and being exempt from rust It can be produced at a cost of about 5 cents a pound. Gov. Butler has requested the State Board of Health of Massachusetts to remove Sanborn, its Secretary, who has not taken the oath of his office for several terms. The Governor says if Sanborn is retained he will allow no public moneys to be used under his direction. Many counsel have expressed the opinion that the great Brooklyn bridge cannot be made free for any kind of travel A branch of O’Donovan Rossa’s Irish Revolutionary League was organized in New York last week with a membership of one hundred. Dynamite is the rock upon which the society is built Gov. Sprague, the famous trotting stallion owned by J. L Case, of Racine; Win, died last week at Lexington, Ky., of pinkeye. The animal’s winnings on the turf last year amounted to SIO,OIO. The Trustees of Columbia College, New York, have prepared a plan to receive young women for a four-years course outside of, but under the supervision of the college, graduates to be entitled to the same honors as young men who have taken the regular course. John Callahan filled His 3-year-old boy full of whisky at Woburn, Mass., and, when the child refused to drink more, the father threw It in his face. The little fellow died in convulsions. The New York World has been sold by Jay Gould to Joseph Pulitzer, of St. Louis, for >400,000. The World will continue to be Democratic In politics. A serious collision occurred between two engines on the Third avenue elevated railway, in New York. One of the firemen was fatally injured, but none of the passengers were seriously hurt. One of the boilers was crushed in, the hot water scalding horse and foot passengers on the street below. There arrived at Boston by the steamer Phoenician 821 evicted tenants from Ireland, most of whom had been “assisted” to emigrate by the British Government. Ward McConkey, who murdered George A. McClure in Dead Man’s Hollow, near MeKeesport, Pa, Aug. 21,1881, was executed at Pittsburgh. He protested his innocence on the gallows, and met death with unconcern. During a storm lightning struck and ' exploded a large oil tank in the Standard Oil Company’s works at Communipaw, N. J. The blazing fluid quickly spread in all directions, reaching the other tanks and exploding them, and before the fire was got under control twelve large tanks, eighteen cars, six barges, a dredge, three docks and five brick structures were consumed. Six men were burned to death. The total loss will exceed $1,500,000.