Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1883 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Telegraphic Summary. EASTERN. The Clearing House Association of New York city held Its annual meeting last week, at which the transactions for the past year were reported to be #41,862,188,453, making a daily average of #137,704,408. The New York Anti-Slavery Society celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of the work for the freeing of the negroes. Elizur Wright, the oldest Abolitionist living, occupied the chair. A delegation from the National Women’s Christian Temperance Union, headed by Miss Frances E. Willard, of Chicago, appeared before the Blair Committee, at»New York, and urged that the temperance question be brought before Congress Alfred A Cohen, of San Francisco, appeared and gave his views on the labor question. He spoke of the scarcity or absence of laborers since shutting off Chinese immigration, and thought the fare from China should be reduced The Committee then adjourned to meet in a few days in New England, where further testimony will be taken. They will then go South. The committee was in session in New York fifty-one days, and spent forty days in listening to testimony. During this time nearly 125 witnesses were examined They represented all classes, ranging from Jay Gould to Denis Kearney. Over 1,300,000 words of controversy were taken. Mitchell and Sherriff, two pugilists, met on Long Island, and, after pounding each other in lively style through seven rounds, the battle was declared a draw. Canterbury &.Haskell, boot and shoe manufacturers of Boston, have suspendedThey owe about $190,000. Hill & Eowe, boot and shoe manufacturers, Boston, have also failed It is an old firm, and the break caused much surprise James McSteen was hanged at Pittsburgh for the murder of his wife. Two hundred persons were present. He refused to make a confession A band of pirates, who entered and robbed two private houses and an office in Gloucester, Mass., put to sea in a gale in a large sloop’yacht, just before daybreak. At Philadelphia a Reading train struck a Union Line street car at a crossing, demolishing the vehicle, causing the death of three persons and wounding, more or less seriously, ten others. The car was of the “ bob-tail ” pattern, In which the driver had to care for his horses, look after the fares and watch the. railroad crossings. The business portion of the village of Passumpsic, Vt., was destroyed by Are. Chesse, brought from Vermont, has caused many cases of poisoning, none fatal, at Boston. Another addition has been made to the ranks of the 2-cent dailies. The Philadelphia Press has knocked off a cent. The wife of C. P. Huntington, the railway king, died suddenly in New York. She was the daughter of William Stoddard, of Cornwall, Ct.