Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1883 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

(Telegraphic Summary.) EASTERN. Aaron W. Harries, a New York city dothler, has made an assignment, with liabilities amounting to #65,000, and assets to *IO,OOO. Mike Oleary, the pugilist, sues Mayor King, of Philadelphia, and a Police Lieutenant for #5,000 damages for preventing bis spatring exhibition with John L. Sullivan. A drunken wife-beater at Pittsburgh, Pa, met with a horrible fate, the object of Ms cowardly spite turning upon Mm and driving a red-hot bayonet through Ms breast, the weapon having been use as a stove poker. Ex-Chief Justice Sharswood, of Pennsylvania, is dead. Three railway laborers on the line of the Philadelphia, Norristown and Phoenixville road, were fatally injured by a bank caving in upon them Six men were drowned in Boston harbor by the capsizing of the yacht Skylark. A crush and panic occurred on Decoration Day at the New York side of the new Brooklyn bridge at the short flight of steps leading to the main footway. For some reason those coming from Brooklyn halted near this spot, but were pushed rapidly forward to the edge Suddenly those in front were precipitated downward, and persons in the rear tumbled on the victims three or four deep. The criei, shrieks and means of the throng were appalling, and in the struggle the clothing of hundreds of persons were torn to shreds. Ffteen were killed and hundreds were wounded The new code of ethics, permitting physicians to consult with practitioners of any school of medicine, has been unanimously adopted by the New Yoik Medical Society. Benjamin F. Butler has the distinction of being the of Massachusetts upon whom Harvard University has not conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws Upon a motion to comply with the precedents the Trustees voted 11 yeas to 15 nays, refusing to bestow the title upon the Governor, who, It had been alleged, intended to refuse it had it been tendered to him.