Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1883 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

fTelegpaphlo SammaryJ EASTERN. The Central Labor Union of New York, by a large majority, refused Dennis Kearney permission to address the meeting. Frederick Schuldt, one of the wealthiest citizens of Beading, Pa, caused the arrest of his son for threats. The young man tore up his shirt and hanged himself in his cell with the strips. Tom Thumb died at Middleboro, Mass, of apoplexy. He was born in Bridgeport, Ct, in 1838, pds real name (being Charles H. Stratton. He had been before the public, on both sides of the Atlantic, for the past thirty yean, and had accumulated a fortune. Two ladies undertook to drive across the Lackawanna track at Roanoke, N. Y., in plain view of an approaching train Their horse became paralyzed with fright, and stood over the rails until struck by the engine The ladles were instantly killed and a young child was badly bruised. The Treasurer of the Rutland (Vi) Railroad Company is short >38,000. Father O’Horan, of Wilkesbarre, Pa., has forbidden Sunday-school children to wear bangs or frizzes in church. The Captain of an English bark from Manila discharged a Chinese carpenter at Boston, who desired to become a resident of the United States, for which the skipper was held in >2,500 for violating the Immigration law of 1882. Ex-Congressman Archibald McAllister, of Pennsylvania, dropped dead of apoplexy at Altoona. In a rowing contest at Ogdensburg, N. Y., Hanlan beat Ross by a quarter mile, making the best four-mile time on record--27:57%. A talking match occurred before the race between Hanlan and Courtney. The latter charged the champion with cutting nls boat at Chautauqua lake, or hiring sofne one to do it several years ago. Hanlan retorted that Courtney was a liar and a thief The funeral of Torn Thumb took place at Bridgeport, Ct, with Masonic ceremonies Fully 10,000 people viewed the remains A very disastrous fire took place in Brooklyn. It originated among a quantity of Jute lying on Harbeck’s dock, and the flames soon spread to three vessels lying at the wharf and loaded with cargoes of Jute and saltpetre, all of which are a total loss. The loss of property is variously estimated at from >500,000 to >1,000,000, were drowned There were many narrow escapes from death, twenty-five firemen being buried under the debris of a fallen roof, but all were taken out alive.