Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1883 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

At Lawrence, Mass., the Salvation Army was pelted with mud and stones and jeered by hoodlums, who filled the contribution box with metal buttons. The divorced wife of ex-Senator Christiancy died in Brooklyn, in an insane condition of mind. Eli B. Clark, cashier of the commission house of Beebe & Goodwin, of New York, is a defaulter to the amount of $15,000. A riot occurred in the Blue Mountain tunnel, near Newburg, Pa., between negro and Italian workmen, during which four of the former were shot, one fatally. The negroes were caught in the act of stealing provisions, which precipitated the conflict.