Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1883 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Telegraphic Summary. EASTERN. Plenro-pneumonia has broken out among the cattle at Salem, Ct Two whole herds are attacked by the disease. Both are In quarantine, by order of the State Commissioner, who' appreciates the Importance of preventing a spread of the malady, and having full authority will doubtless prevent its further extension. Potatoes throughout Western New York have been attacked by black rust, and the entire crop ot that region is in peril The Misses Mary Kairns and Mary Budd, each 15 years old, were drowned while boating in Silver Lake, near Rochester, N. Y. The funeral of Judge Jere 8. Black was the largest ever held in York, Pa, and was attended by many men of distinction in law and politics. Gen. Hancock and Chief Justice Mercer were among the pallbearers. A fire at Long Island City destroyed the Empire oil-works and a large amount of petroleum, causing a loss of #500,000 and injury to three workmen. The large papermill of J. H. Lewis, near Chester, Pat, valued at #BO,OOO, was burned. Fourteen persons were drowned at Welfa, a watering-place on the Maine coast. They were bathing hi the surf, and were swept out by the strong undertow. George Beattie, who had been employed by Noremac, the pedestrian, as bartender in a New York saloon, killed Mrs Noremac, in her rooms in Eighth avenue, and then took his own life. He was found lying across her corpse It is believed the deed was committed in revenge for being discharged. The annual great auction sale of cotton goods in New York city was attended by the most important buyers in the country. Sixteen thousand packages were closed out in a few hours at prices said to be unsatisfactory to the mills. The offering, however, as a whole, was considered to lack in attractions, and therefore standard elements, such as tickings and muslins, suffered in sympathy. At Sunbury, Pa., Henry Stein, 45 years old, a tramp who was traveling with a band of Gypsies, was bitten twice by a Newfoundland dog, and died of hydrophobia in the evening of the same day. By the burning of a tenement house in Boston four persons were smothered to death and one fatally injured by jumping, from the building. The steamer Elbe brought to New York a party of German journalists, professors, army officers and members of Parliament They came at the invitation of President Villard, to witness the formal opening of the Northern Pacific road. The postoffice, hotel, a private residence and a block of brick stores were consumed at Mifflintown, Pa., causing a loss of #65,000.