Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1883 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

treleeraphtoSummaryl ' . <“«»>«• bbih The heat in New York has been most intense There Were 176 deaths, with thirteen fatal oases of sun-stroke in one day. The street-car companies erected temporary sheds for their horses. Each street was patrolled by carts loaded with blocks of ice and covered with tarpaulins. No less than 672 children under 5 years of age died in New York during the week. John 8. Prince, the American champion wheelman, was defeated In a twentymile race at Rochester, N. X, by H. W. Hlgham, an English bicyclist Boxes have been placed in the hotels and police stations of New York to receive contributions toward a monument for Peter Cooper. Mayor Edson will act as treasurer of the fund. < / . • A bitter contest occurred the other day, during the Tewksburg Almshouse Investigation, between the members of the committee, the majority ref using to permit Dr. McArthur to answer the question of whether there was a practice at the Harvard Medical School of skinning cadavers. Two hundred assisted emigrants reached Boston by the steamer Austrian. None of them are of the pauper class, most of them having money to reach points in the Western States. ■’ j The Captain and Lieutenant of the Salvation Army were fined at Bridgeport, Ct, for disturbing the peace and were compelled to give bonds not to hold street meet Ings or parades in the future. They appealed. ' Orange Judd, the noted New York philanthropist and ex-publisher has made an assignment for the benefit of his creditBanks, a colored hotel-waiter in New York, -recently gave eight ounces of his blood for transfusion to the veins oiA man who nearly perished from gas-poisoM-ing, for which he was promised 10 cents s a. drop Not receiving that amount of money, he has brought suit for •250. -Phinny & Jackson, merchants, of Portland, Me., have suspended, with liabilities to the amount of •200,6*00.