Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1883 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

(Telegraphic Summary.) EASTERN. At Trenton, N. J.» Mrs. Knoblach threw her husband into the canal, and then Jumped in herself. She was drowned, but Knoblach was rescued. Arthur HL Blaney was sentenced at Boston to seven years’ imprisonment for embezzling, while cashier, *40,000 belonging to the American Loan and Trust Company. The Amalgamated Iron and Steel Workers’ convention in session at Pittsburg, refused by an unanimous vote to pass the motion presented for separating the iron and steel workers into two distinct organizations. The plan to make each lodge support its own members when they are on a strike was also defeated. Capt. Rhodes, who purposed swimming the Niagara whirlpool, after viewing the waters decided not to attempt the feat E. C. Stedman & Co., New York brokers, have failed. Mr. Stedman is well known as a poet and prose writer. For the year ep ding Aug. 1,160 persons were killed and injured on New York State railroads ~ ■ The 106th anniversary of the battle of Bennington was duly celebrated in that city Aug. 16 . , On' the Rochester track, Jey-qye-see made a mile in 2:14, the best time on record for a 5-year-old, and took the special purse of *2,000. While driving at Stowe, Vt., Jesse Town and wife were thrown from their carriage and killed, and Mra Stockwell was seriously injured. John Devoy, of New York city, sentenced to sixty days’ imprisonment for libeling August Belmont, has been released, having completed his term. Joseph Schroeder and John Farrell fought according to the prize-ring rules for possession of a young woman at Woodside, L. 1 Farrell was “knocked out” in the fifteenth round. In a drunken fight at New York Michael Gordon killed John Bouger with a blow of his fist Judge J. S. Black died at his home in York, Pa, Aug. 19, aged 73 years. He was born in that State, and became Chief Justice of its Supreme Court in 1854. He was Attorney General and Secretary of State under President Buchanan. He participated in nearly all the great cases before the Supreme Court, including the constitutionality of the Reconstruction acts, beside being engaged in the Vanderbilt will case, the Belknap impeachment, and the McGarrahan claim.