Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1883 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

(Telegraphic SommaryJ EASTERN. The ticket office in the Baltimore & Ohio depot at Pittsburgh was robbed of ♦V 000, the thieves entering by lifting out the window sash. While repairing a blast furnace at Syracuse, N. Y., eight workmen were crushed to death by an immense weight of brick and mortar, which fell upon them. The Hon. Ginery Twichell, ex-Con-gressman, and a prominent railroad man, died at Brookline, Mass., aged 72 years Prof. Marsh, of Yale College, has been appointed a member of the Mnnich Academy of Sciences When eleven rounds of a prize-fight had been finished at Nianticeke, Pa,a'crowd of women armed with knives and pistols broke into tbe ring and stopped the mill. At Bridgeport, Ct., the works of the Howe Sewing-Machine Company were destroyed by fire, with a loss of #350,000. At the boat-race at Fulton, N. Y., Hanlan won easily, with Hosmerlsecond and Lee third Daniel B. Phillips, a well-known evangelist, of Boston, committed suicide by hanging. The first frost of the season is reported from the White mountains of New Hampshire In a collision some years ago between the Pennsylvania Railroad Company ferryboat and the New York Transportation Company steamer, John H. Martin received injuries causing insanity. He has just obtained a verdict at New York against both companies for #20,000. Patrick Kelly, a seaman of the brig Julia Blake, died of yellow fever at the Philadelphia quarantine hospital, to which place he had been removed from the vesseL The brig was detained at quarantine and thoroughly fumigated Joseph H. Wilkins, railroad agent at the Buffalo stock-yards, has fled the city, leaving his accounts $5,C00 short. The remains of Carl Meininger, of Cincinnati, were reduced to ashes at the Le Moyne Crematory, near Washington, Pa Gov. Butler refuses to grant a pardon to S. A. Chace, of Fall River, who embezzled #500,000. Henry Welsh and his wife, and Miss Alice Swartz, of Mount Joy, Pa, while driving to market, were struck by a fast express on the Eastern Pennsylvania road, and killed