Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1884 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. The property of the New York and New England road has gone into the hands of a receiver. Its indebtedness is over $1,250,000. The Art Loan exposition in favor of the Bartholdi statue pedestal fund, New York, realized net receipts of $12,000. At a point on the river nine miles from Pittsburgh, the tug-boat I. N. Bunton was set on Are by a collision with her tow. Most of the crew sprang overboard, and three are still missing. She soon sank in shallow water, as did three coal-boats. The total loss is $50,000. Robert Martin, aged 53, and James B. Graves, 65 years, were hanged at Newark; N. J., for murder. Martin's crime was the murder of his wife, being drunk at the time he committed the deed. Graves had always been regarded as a crank, and the little boys called him “Monkey Graves.'* He bad frequent quarrels with Eddie Soden, aged 13 years, and repeatedly threatened to kill him. On the night of Dec. 20, 1881, Eadie started out to perform his duties as a lamplighter. Graves stealthily followed, and, while the boy was mounted on a lamp-post, shot him down frpm behind. He was convicted Jan. 19, 1882, of murder in the first degree. His defense was insanity. Dr. Spitka, the ijiedical expert who testified for Guiteau, assisted by six other doctors, examined into Graves’ case. They certified that he was insane. The Court of Pardons refused to commute the sentence. The autopsy, made by County Physician Hewlett, Dr. Spitka and twelve other doctors, showed that Graves was insane. Signs of insanity more numerous and intense than are found in lunatics who die in insane asylums were discovered. All the doctors were agreed that a lunatic had been hanged. The resignation of Henry Villard as President of tho Northern Pacific road was accepted by the Directors at their meeting in New York last week. Villard is completely ruined financially. The closing act of his business career was the handing over to assignees of his New York mansion and other property, with instructions to dispose of the same, jay a mortgage of $200,000, and discharge any indebtedness to the Oregon Railway company, the residue to be given to his wife. Russell Sage dropped $1,000,000 in Wall street in one day. A great tumble in Union Pacific stock was the cause of Jhe simulator's grief. Pittsburgh iron mills have plenty of orders on hand, and the outlook for the trade s encouraging.