Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1884 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. Ferdinand Ward, of the firm of Grant t Ward, was arrested in New York on the application of City Chamberlain J. Nelson Tappan, who claims that the firm owes him $535,000. Bail was fixed at $300,000. The Fifth Avenue Hotel at New York has been mortgaged by Amos R. Eno, for $1,250,000. The Penn Bank of Pittsburgh, after a suspension of twenty-four hours, reopened its doors with $600,000 cash on the counters. Charles A. Hinckley, paying teller of the West Side Bank, of Now York, has embezzled $96,000 and disappeared. The Trustees of the Le Moyne Crematory, at Washington, Pa., announce that after Aug. 1 the bodies of none but residents of the county will be received for incineration, the furnace having already served its purpose of educating public sentiment. Joseph B. McDonald, a lumberman of Woburn, Mass., has assigned. The liabilities are placed at $125,000. It is stated that $8,000,000 in gold was senffby the Bank of Montreal, Canada, to New York during the recent financial troubles. By a railroad collision at Savannah, N. Y., four persons were killed and a number seriously wounded. The African Methodist Episcopal Conference at New York fixed the salarios of Bishops at $1,500 per annum. H. A. Collier, a prominent Pittsburgh attorney, has disappeared, and with him $4,000 received as assignee. He leaves numerous private debts. Adam Bravender, the President of the suspended Irie Savings Bunk, is now an inmate of the county jail. An angry mob surrounded Bravender’s house and threatened to lynch him. As a measure of safety he requested the authorities to put him in jail. Thomas P. Grinnell, a New York merchant, killed himself by a pistol shot.