Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1883 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Ike Buzzard, a notorious inmate of the jail at Lancaster, Pa., looked the watchman in a cell, released eleven companions, broke the telephone, filled their stomachs and departed. Ten thousand people saw the Maid of the Mist run the lower Niagara rapids. The craft remained in the whirlpool ten minutes. A friend who called upon Miss Jennie Noon, at Scranton, Pa., stated that she had been reported dead. Miss Noon fell to the floor and remained unconscious, when she died from the shock. A magnificent reception and banquet were given to Lord Coleridge in the Academy of Music at New York. The stage was ornamented by Persian works of art, and trees, shrubs, and plants, the whole valued at $40,000. A mill agent at Manchester, N. TT , testified before the Senate Committee on Ed-

ucation ar.d Labor that transportation for a mill in that State cost $60,000 per annum more than if located in Massachusetts, forcing longer hours of labor. Mrs. Boniface, the well-known actress. died near Boston, lost week. Mrs. Fannie Sprague, mother of exGov. Sprague of Rhode Island, died at Groton, Ct.. in her 84th year. Edwin G. Walker, the colored lawyer, has sued the Boston Post for libel, claiming damages at SIO,OOO, for asserting that he had been fined for drunkenness in the Charlestown court. Mrs. J. W. Graves, a Boston woman, drove an armed burglar from her house with a bed-slat. One of the robbers, in his flight, shot and wounded Policeman Garland.