Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1884 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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The National Bird Show, for which 2,000 entries were made of all varieties known in America, opened at Boston last week. Judge Hilton has purchased from Mrs. A. T. Stewart, for $2,100,000, the wellknown store building: at the corner of Broadway and Chambers street. New York. Cornelius Van Kiper and his three children were burned to death in their house, at New York, and Mrs. Van Riper, who wa9 enceinte, was killed by jumping from a third story window. At Boston the price of liquor licenses of all grades has been advanced. . The chemical works of Powers & Weightman, in Philadelphia, the most extensive in the United States, were destroyed by fire last week. Explosions of fusel oil cai ried the fluid into the streets and spread the flames to adjacent buildings. The losswill exceed $1,000,000. At New Bedford, Mass., Bobert Smith and wife were found dead in bed, from the effects of coal gas.