Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1884 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week, EASTERN. The produce exports (from New York during last week were valued at aboat $6,000,000. The bank examiner reports that the "West Side Bank -of New York has $63,699 above all liabilities. By an explosion in the straw-board factory of Moore & Wilson, Waterford, N. Y., five men lost their lives and $15,000 worth of property was destroyed. New York dispatch: Seventy-four business men of this city, members of an association whose charter has been subscribed to by thirty different interests, representing $350,000,000, held an important meeting. This union has been formed for the purpose of preventing discriminations by the railroad!, telegraph, and express companies. The meeting was devoted to an interchange of views and the relation of instances where the relators thought they had been discriminated against. The International Lodge of Good Templars, in session at Washington, elected the Hon. James B. Finch, of Nebraska, Bight Worthy Grand Chief Templar. Frederick D. Grant and Jesse R. Grant filed schedules in their assignments at Now York. F. D. Grant owes $2,215,066, •with assets nominally worth $1,990,013. J. R. Grant's liabilities are placed at $95,249, the nominal value of his assets being $131,150. The true inwardness of the Penn Bank collapse at Pittsbugh reaches the public in interesting slices. President Riddle has filed a confession of judgment in favor of the wreck for $99,750. The overdrafts of $350,000 reported previously have now swollen to $1,200,000, and it is expected that the liabilities will reach $2,000,000. Theofficersof the concern are charged with desperate speculation in oil ever since the Cherry Grove district was opened. For ordering the swathing of a female patient with bandages steeped in kerosene, and on his second visit directing that more oil be poured on the ligatures, the •woman dying in a short time, Dr. Franklin Pierce was found guilty of manslaughter at Worcester, Mass. Charles O’Conor left $20,000 in money and a portion of his library to the Law Institute of New York, SIO,OOO each to four ladies, and two-thirds of the residue to his sister, Eliza M. Sloane. George Mountfort died at Boston, aged 78. He was a son of Joseph Mountfort, one of the famous Boston tea party. A bill to abolish the prison-labor contract in Massachusetts was defeated in the Legislature of that State. By the fall of a scaffolding in a railway tunnel near Ligonier, Pa., nine Italian laborers were killed and eleven others severely injured. The Coroner’s jury investigating the Knapp Tunnel accident In Pennsylvania, by which eleven men lost their lives, returned a verdict exonerating the contractors. Mayor Martin, of Boston, refuses to Issue licenses to liquor dealers in that city. A case has been carried to the Massachusetts Supreme Court with a view to compelling him to issue the licenses. Ferdinand Ward says that the responsibility of Gen. Grant and James D. Fish In the firm of Grant & Ward was equal to his own. A violent snow-storm passed over the towns south of Buffalo on the morning of Decoration Day, trains arriving at Buffalo being covered with snow. At the National Horse Exhibition in New York, Freddy Gebhard’s horse Leo cleared a barrier six feet and six inches in height, beating the English record for high jumping.