Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1883 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

(Telegraphic Summary.) EASTERN. Sullivan and Mitchell “sparred” at New York In the presence of 10,000 people, the Englishman being knocked about until he failed to come to time. Mr. James Gilfillan, -who resigned the United States Treasurership last month to accept the Presidency of a financial institution in New York, has, after three weeks’ service in the latter capacity, withdrawn from the concern, together with three other prominent gentlemen who recently entered ts directory. Ex-Gov. Israel Washburn, of Maine, died at Philadelphia, where he had been unSer medical treatment The Board of Excise Commissioners of New York refused a saloon licence to Joe Coburn, the pugilist, on the ground that his general reputation was bad Col. John A. Cockerill, heretofore the managing editor of the St Louis PostDispatch, is the new editor Of the New York World, under the Pulitzer management , By the falling of a carriage in which five men were being lowered • into the Pancoast coal-mine, near Scranton, Pa, four men were so badly Injured that they can scarcely recover. John Kelly, who was City Comptroller of New York when Carroll perpetrated his coupon frauds, has sent nis check for $18,0(0 to the Mayor to cover the losses The convention of coal miners at Pittsburgh, Pa, has resulted in the organization of an Amalgamated Association of Coal Miners of the United States. Jesse Tonesdell Peck, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church, died of pneumonia at his home in Syracuse, N. Y., aged 72 years He was ordained to preach in 1829, and was elected a Bishop in 1872. The Parrott Varnish Company’s factory, Bridgeport, Ct, was badly damaged by fire. Loss. $50,0(0; cause, incendiary. At the semi-annual sale in New York city of imported Jersey cattle, owned by T. 8. Cooper, the cow Distaff brought #1,500; the cow Daisy, of St Peter’s, #2,1'0; the cow Sultana, #2,800; the bull Count St George, $2,6C0, and the cow St. Clementina, #2,600. The total for sixty-one animals was #43,764.