Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1883 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

gwegraphio Sammapyi EASTERN. An inquest on the body of Capt. Webb was held at Niagara Falls. His widow, several physicians, Us manager, and various persons who witnessed the swim gave their testimony. The Jury returned a verdict that Capt. Webb bad come to his death while attempting to swim the whirlpool in the mpids of the Niagara river. They were unable to determine the immediate cause of death. John D. & Charles King’s hide mill, Johnson, N. Y., was burned Loss, #50,000. John Walter’s oil-cloth factory, Albany, N. Y., was partially consumed by fire. Loss, #75,0C0; insured Edward Swartz, residing near Reading, Pa., recently suffered a dislocation of, the neck by the falling limb of a tree. Eight doctors found the fourth joint fractured and four of them are said to have reduced the fracture and saved the patient’s lifa . Charles H. Ward & Co., boot and shoe manufacturers, Boston, have failed The liabilities are about #750,000. By the neglect of the telegraph operator at Petersburg Junction, Vt, freight trains on the Troy and Boston road collided on a curve near PownaL Eight men were killed, and the engine and cars were wrecked and burned The damage is estimated at #75,000. E. T. aryl J. D. Phinney, manufacturers of bpot and shoe ceunters, at Boston, have suspended with liabilities of #400,000. They were on Shaw & Broa ’ paper to that amount. • The first hale of new hops arrived at New York from Oneida county. It was sold for 50 cents per poußd The shoe factory of Charles W. Clements, at Dover, N. H., has been attached by Boston bonkers. He hftd shops in six cities, with Fayette Shaw as a special partner, and his liabilities are #500,000. The creditors of Shaw & Brothers have been informed that the total indebtedness is $2,260,000 and the convertible assets are #l,000,000. The shoe and leather firm of Herzy, Whittier & Wyman, doing business on Federal street, Boston, has permanently closed its doors, with debts aggregating #500,000.