Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1883 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

atelegrapblG Summary.! EASTERN. The owner of the horse which wm driven continuoudy from New York to Btx>ny Creek, ninety miles, in a contest with a catamaran, has been arrested for cruelty. The Dauphin county (Pa.) Almshouse buildings, except the school-house, was destroyed by fire, involving a loss of ♦2OO,O(XX Great trouble was experienced in removing some insane Inmates, and twelve of them escaped. John Halliard, late President of the wrecked bank at Jenny City,has gone to the State prison for a period of eighteen months. At the Tewksbury (Mass.) Almshouse investigation, a letter to the State Board of Health was read, showing that from Oct 1,1882, 630 cadavars had been delivered to colleges, for j which they paid ♦8,827. Of this sum but ♦COO found its way into the State Treasury. • Trouble was caused at Elmira, N. ¥., by the Mayor and a gang of men tearing up the track of the D., L AW. road, which crossed Fifth street when the ordinance permitted that it merely run to it Railroad employes ran cars on the track to prevent its being demolished, and were arrested for blockading the streets, while the Mayor and his chief assistant were arrested for malicious mischief Cornell won the inter-collegiate boat race at Lake George, University of Pennsylvania second, Princeton third. Three persons were killed by lightning during a thunderstorm at Dover, N. H. Bleakie & Co.’s mill at Armstrong, Mass., was struck by lightning and burned, entailing a loss of ♦100,030. John Armoy Knox, of the Texas /Siftings, and one D. B. Sheahan, said to be a sculptor, quarreled about politics at a wine supper in New York, the matter culminating in a duel across the river, in New Jersey. JThe combatants were placed twenty paces apart At the second fire Knox felt his left arm twitched, and found that Sheahan’s bullet had passed through his coat and shirt, slightly grazing the skin. Sheahan was untouched The pair then shook hands, and the proceedings were over.