Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1883 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

(TelegPßpMo SummapyJ EASTERN. Arthur H. Blaney, cashier of the Massachusetts Loan and Trust Company, confesses having embezzled #44,000 and lost it in mining speculations. John Devoy, the editor of the Irish Nation , who had accused August Belmont of misappropriating the funds of an Irish so" oiety, was found guilty of libeL The Jury recommended the clemency of the court and the chief prosecuting witness Joined in the prayer. The condition of the principal crops of Pennsylvania is reported as most encouraging Ex-Senator Georg? E. Spencer, of Alabama, was seen in a New York hotel the other evening, but mysterlrusly disappeared He fled to Europe to avoid giving testimony in the star-route trials. In the cellar of a residence in- Philadelphia, formerly occupied by Dr. Isaac Hathaway, for a long time suspected of being an abortionist, there were fonnd buried the skulls, or portions thereof, of twentyone infanta His wife alleges that Hathaway has committed hundreds of criminal operations. The Harvard and Columbia crews rowed their usual annual race at New London, and victory perched over the shell of the former. The four miles were made in 84 minutes 42 seconds. Catholic Archbishop Wood, of Philadelphia, died of Bright's disease and blood poisoning. About 1,000 barrels of old Pennsylvania whisky were burned in warehouses at Gibsonton, Pa, involving a loss of #sCo,oott Fifteen persons were severely scalded by the explosion of liquor. The Mahoning Furnace Company at Indiana, Pa, has made an assignment. Wm. T. Cook & Co., straw-goods manufacturers at Foxboro, Mass., are insolvent. Tneir liabilities are placed at #300,000. At Wheeling, W. Va., a reservoir of natural gas was struck by well-borers at a depth of 840 feet, the flames when ignited rising thirty feet in the air.