Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1883 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

fTelegrapW® SummaryJ EASTERN. The big boulder suspended in “The Flume" in the White Mountains of New Hampshire has fallen. It is believed its support was undermined by the recent freshet Elmer Snyder, a farmer residing near Glen City, Pa, was recently surprised by a visit from a young man claiming to be his runaway son, who proves to have been a Chicago thief. The villain waited his time, and then robbed the old man of >8,500 in money and bonds The New York Emigration Commissioners are taking steps to prevent the landing of pauper emigrants at that point The Turkey Red Company’s building, Providence, R. L, was burned. Loss, >30,OCO; insured for >15,000. John Stryker, the New York millionaire, was drowned while bathing in Saratoga lake. He had been married two months. A class of 210, the largest in the history of the university, has just been graduated by Harvard University. Nearly 10,000 persons gathered at Burlington, Vt, to witness the laying of a corner-stone for a new university building and the unveiling of a statute of Lafayette. Dr. Hathaway, the .Philadelphia abortionist, in whose cellar were found the skeletons of twenty infants, has been fined >SOO and sentenced to seven years in the penitentiary. A cloud burst into the vicinity of Portland, Pa', causing floods which wrecked a number of culverts and bridges and washed away tracks in large sections. The school-slate factories suffered heavily, and a low estimate of the total loss approximates >50,000. Charles Francis Adams, Jr., in an oration before the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity of Harvard University, denounced the study of Greek as “a college fetich," and declared that modern languages should take precedence in the curriculum. Attachments for $140,000 have been secured against the thread works of Samuel Semple A Sons, of Mount Holly, N. J. “No. 1,” of Irish conspiracy notoriety, has been employed for the past three months in Rochester, N. Y., but is now in New York city, so as to be near his counsel in case he is arrested for extradition.