Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1883 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Telegraphic Summary. EASTERN. Lafayette Cook, an eccentric character of South Auburn, Me., some weeks ago fixed upon Nov. 11 as the date of his death. When the time came he took to a lounge, placed one hand under his head, passed Into a condition of stupor, and, within a few hours, calmly surrendered himself to his Maker. A loss of $150,000 was entailed by the burning of Stockweli’s paper-stock warehouse in New York city. Charles H. Houseman’s fine residence In Columbia county, N. Y., was burned, causing a loss of $160,000. Two machine guns have just been completed at Hartford, Ct„ for Gen. Grant as presents to the Viceroy of China and Mikado of Japan. Guns of the model after which they are made have a Government record of 505 shots a minute, and have been fired at the rate of 700 shots a minute and 5,000 shots In thirteen minutes twenty-six seconds. The State-honse at Boston is found to be infested to an alarming degree with white ants, which are capable of leveling buildings by honeycombing timbers. A few years ago they ruined a railroad bridge at Cambridge. At Prospect Park, the horse Frank, with J. O. Nay as running mate, defeated H. B. Winship, with Hiram Bruce as mate, in the best time on record— Winship took the second heat in 2:10)4. The boiler houses two large machine shops and half the storehouses of the Providence railway at Boston were burned. Three men were killed and five others wounded by the explosion of the boiler in Maxwell’s saw-mill In Jackson township, Pa. The American Steamship company’s wharves at Philadelphia were destroyed by fire. Loss, $160,000. Hoffstadt Brothers, fancy goods, New York, have failed, giving $58,000 preferences. The residence of Isaac W. England, publisher of the New York Sun, at Paterson, N. J., was totally destroyed by fire. A robber at Oyster Bay, Long Island, choked to death Mrs. Lydia Maybee and her daughter, and nearly killed Garrett Maybee, a paralytic. A fire at Communipaw, N. J., destroyed the Jersey Central freight depot, twenty loaded freight cars, and a great amount o miscellaneous merchandise. Loss $125,000. Roman Catholic Bishop Hendricken, of Providence, B. 1., has issued a pastoral, prohibiting dancing at fairs and bazars held for church purposes or in aid of church societies and associations, on the ground that dancing tends to immorality.