Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1883 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Telegraphic Summary. EASTERN. On conviction of criminal libel in a newspaper owned by him, Commodore W. J. Kountz, of Pittsburgh, was fined >SOO and sentenced to thirty days in jail. The rear car of a train went down an embankment at North Worcester, Mass. Fifteen persons were seriously injured, among them being Mrs. Arthur Farrar, of Chicago. Three large cartridge companies in New England have formed a syndicate which will control that interest throughout the United States. The Bankers and Merchants’ Telegraph company recorded a $10,000,000 mortgage at Lancaster, Pa., in favor of the Farmers’ Loan and Trust company. A. Oakey Hall has abandoned journalism in New York, and will go to London to practice law. An intimate friend of Samuel J. Tilden states that tpc latter’s Gramercy Park residence has been remodeled as a future gift to the public for a library, under three trustees. The property is valued at $1,000,000.'