Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1883 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Telegraphic Summary. EASTERN. The creditors of Shaw & Brothers, the Bankrupt tanners of Boston, met to hear the report of an investigating committee. It appears that the insolvents can pay 72 cents on the dollar. James B. ForgaD. Inspector of the Bank of Nova Scotia, was made trustee. Ernst Asten, Postmaster at Minooka, Pa., has been arrested for tampering with the mails. William H. Vanderbilt had a miraculous escft{)e from death at New York, the other day. The great railway magnate drove his last team to Fleetwood park, and had Early Rose put In a single racing buggy. He then dashed around the track twice at a rattling pace, and, when the second round was finished, at the grand stand, he whirled his horse about and started the other way around the track. He wore blue glasses, and did not see one of Robert Bonner’s fast teams coming straight at him. A collision occurred, and Vanderbilt’s buggy was wrecked and he thrown heavily to the ground. He lay motionless until a number of spectators ran to him and carried him to the porch of the track-house, where he revived sufficiently to walk up the steps and into the reception-room. His injuries were only slight. Bonner and his team escaped without damage. In the case of Loren B. Sessions, charged with bribery in the New York Senatorial contest in 1881 (at the time when Roscoe Conkling was seeking for a vindication), the jury, after but a short time devoted to deliberation, returned a verdict acquitting him of the charge. Before the Senate Labor Investigating committee at Boston, Charles T. Chaunoe testified that he had seen the tanned skins of several women, and that the business had been carried on for at least eighteen years, but lately has been decreasing. He designated the tanneries where the human “hides” had been perfected, and stated the proprietors themselves did most of the work on-them. Edward Hovey, who murdered Mrs. Fanny Vermllyea, was executed in the Tombs at New York. He spent a restless night, was unable to take breakfast, and had to be supported from his cell to the gallows. Henry Irving, the English actor, arrived In New 'tork last week. He was met “down the bay” by Lawrence Barrett and William J. Florence, who took him on board Tilden’s yacht, Yosemito, where he partook of some refreshments before landing.