Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1884 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

By the collapse of a bridge at Weedsport, N. Y., a mixed train was dropped into the Seneca River, the engineer, fireman, and brakeman being drowned. The Philadelphia Medical News says Gen. Grant is doing well, but his recovery is retarded by rheumatism. The will of Wendell Phillips conveys his entire estate, valued at $250,000, to his widow and adopted daughter. Whole families of children are dangerously ill with scarlet fever at Ware, Mass. New York is said to be overrun with beggars, many of whom steal simply to get shelter and food in jail.