Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1883 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Telegraphic Snmmary 1 EASTERN. In Allegheny City, Pa., an employe in Kiefer & Stlefel’s tannery descended a well to ascertain the depth of the water. Finding: the foul air was choking: him, he cried out, and two other men went to his assistance, who were also overcome. When the three men were brought to the surface they were dead. At Narraganset Park, Providence, R. L, the trotter H. B. Winship made a mile with a running mate in the remarkable time of 2:10«. The creditors of F. Shaw & Brothers, of Boston, unanimously rejected an offer of 33 Si per cent, in compromise, and Instruct a committee to proceed by civil or criminal suits to secure 60 per cent. During October the convicts in Sing Sing penitentiary earned $20,677.74, while the expenses were only $16,641.29. The Pennsylvania Railroad company is about to lease its anthracite coal mines to a syndicate, headed by William L. Scott, of Erie, who will send the coal west from Erie and Buffalo. It is stated that the railway corporation will get $1 per ton for all the ooal mined. A desperate combat took place between Freshmen and Sophomore classes at the Polytechnic institute at Troy, N. Y., the only wonder being that several were not killed. Both parties have been suspended until the damage to the building is paid. Joseph McEneany, cashier of a steelworks in New York, embezzled $36,090 and squandered it in racing pools. Rachel Leyton, a colored woman, died at Trenton, N. J., at the very ripe age of 106 years. A farmer at West Millcreek, Pa., took SII,OOO in currency from his safe and concealed it in the parlor stove, where it was destroyed when he lighted a fire. Eliza Kemer, 16 years of age, an inmate of the almshouse at Erie, Pa., nurses like a babe, and has only the mental capacity of one, her mental progress having been stopped by an attack of brain fever when an infant. The case is creating a wide interest among the physicians of the locality. Arthur B. Johnson, a lawyer and politician of Utica, N. Y., killed himself in his office with a revolver, his body being discovered by a notorious woman with whom he lived. He leaves a wife and four children. President Arthur appointed Johnson a Commissioner to examine a section of the Northern Pacific railway.