Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1883 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Old Bill Tovee, a character well known in New York sporting circle -, is dead. Tovee attended every prize fight in this country up to a few years ago. He was 82 years of age. While an excursion train was going

at the rate of thirty miles an hour, near Scranton, pa., a boy named John Kerrigan was put off for having no ticket He fell under the wheels and was instantly killed. By the failure of an air brake, passenger trains collided at Colchester, on the Vermont Central road, thirteen trainmen receiving severe injuries. The cattle diseases known as bloody urine has appeared on a farm near Newburg, N. ¥., and is fatal in every instance. Though common in Europe, thete are the first cases known in America. What is thought to have been an incendiary fire broke out at New Haven, Ct The loss aggregated SIOO,OCO, of which threefourths was sustained by Charles E. Brown, a builder. The Quidneck Company held a meeting at Providence, B. I, at which Stephen Harris wa, elected President. Mr. Harris then repaired to th officee of the company and demanded possession of Ex-Gov. William Sprague, but the latter said he would kill Harris if he attempted to take possession, and also informed him there were men at the mill who would quickly take his life. Harris withdrew’.