Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1883 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Telegraphic Summary. EASTERN. On the Long Island railroad, near Montauk Junction, N. Y., a collision between passenger trains occurred, by which two persons were killed and eight wounded. Hugh J. Hastings, proprietor of the New York Commercial Advertiser, died at Monmouth, N. J., of paralysis of the heart He was €3 years old. Among the pall-bearers at the funeral of Hugh J. Hastings, in New York, were President Arthur, Secretary Folger, Roscoe Conkling, W. H. Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, Hugh J. Jewett, Samuel Sloan, Gen. Eckert and I&ac W. England. Some miners who were discharged at Hazelton, Pa, threatened to destroy the property of the company. They fought the constabulary with pistols, a woman and girl being killed and several officers and miners injured. Rain and frost have ruined a large portion of the Vermont hop crop Fire at Brooklyn, N. Y., destroyed W. A Boylin & Co.’shat works, Charles E. Everett’s novelty straw-hat factory, and two rear frame buildings, involving a loss of $135,003 Prof. Swift, Director of Warner Observatory, at Rochester, is reported to have discovered a comet in the constellation Draco For a purse of $2,000, to beat the record of 2:14, Jay-Eye-See, at Narragansett Park, Providence, trotted the mile in 2:10%. He showed no signs of distress at the finish. William Rockafeller’s team, Cleora and Independence, are reported to have made a 2:17 record on the Charter Oak Park track, at Hartford, Ct