Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1883 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Telegraphic Summary 1 EASTERN. W. P. Copeland, one of the bestknown among the correspondents at Washington, died in Philadelphia of Bright’s disease. An explosion in J. H. Smith’s Excelsior squib factory, at Kingston, Pa., blew eight children out of the building, one falling in the creek. Their ages were between 11 and 16, and all were horribly burned and blackened by the powder. The piano-stool factory of Parker & Young, at Lisbon, N. H., valued at $25,000, was burned recently. Secret-service officers in a raid on a counterfeiting den in the mountains of Vermont discovered the existence of an oathbound conspiracy of crime with all the paraphernalia of signs, passwords, mystic records, and blood-curdling oaths of secrecy. An officer of the Secret service discovered near Brattleboro, Vt., a gang of twenty-three young counterfeiters, who have been at work since June in a secret place in the mountains. The most violent northeast gale for years raged along the New England coast. Many vessels were wrecked, and a number of lives lost. Dr. G. F. Taylor, of New York, has secured judgment for $20,000 against the Metropolitan Elevated railway for running trains past a house which he had previously rented for a hospital. Patrick E. Delaney, of New York, claims to have invented appliances by means of which six telegraph operators can send messages simultaneously over one wire, in different directions if desired. Capt. Finley, William Fowler, MWhalen and another seaman were drowned by the capsizing of a schooner off Vineyard Haven, Mass. Thomas H. Murch, lato Greenback Congressman from Maine, has settled in Boston, and, it Is said, will shortly open a drink-ing-saloon in that city. W. A. Kitts, a lumber broker of Oswego, N. Y., has failed, his liabilities being $50,000. The Rev. Isaac W. Pembroke, the oldest Congregational minister in New Hampshire, died at Concord, aged 90. A fire at Pittsburg destroyed Munderf’s planing-mill, five dwellings, and 1,000,000 feet of lumber, the loss aggregating $55,000. William H. Jenkins & Co., door manufacturers, at New York, have assigned. The liabilities are put at $179,000, and tho actual assets at $57,000. For violating the neutrality of the United States by furnishing arms and ammunition to the Haytian insurgents the Captain and first officer of the steamer Tropic were sentenced at Philadelphia to one year’s imprisonment and to pay a line of SSOO and costsIn the trial of a case against the Jersey Central and Beading railroads, at Trenton, N. J., ex-Senator Conkling became involved in a colloquy with President Gowen. The epithets “blackguard,” “blackmailer,” “lunatic” and “dashed scoundrel” were used on each side with facility and effect. A large audience stood up and yelled with delight. Two carriage factories of Plainsville, Ct., valued at SBO,OOO, were swept away by fire. The country residence of Edwin N. Benson, at Germantown, Pa., was burned, Involving a loss of SIOO,OOO. The jewelry store of L. S. Stowe & Co., Springfield, Mass., was burglarized of diamonds and other valuables to the extent of $15,000 at an early hour Sunday morning.