Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1884 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week* EASTERN. Tilden G. Abbot, the defaulting Cashier of the Watertown (Mass.) bank, was convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment. ■William Sprague’s mansion at Providence, B. 1., was sold for $34,400. It is un. derstood that the purchase was for the Boman Catholic Bishop of Bhode Island, who will convert it into an academy or convent. Col. George Bliss, of New York, the distinguished lawyer and politician, has been converted to Catholicism by Mgr. Capel. A man was killed in Newburg, N. Y., by the explosion of a barrel of beer. Hiester Clymer, who died recently at Beading, Penn., served for years in the State Senate and in Congress, and was once the Democratic candidate for Governor. By a collision between a church excursion train and an accommodation train on the Camden Bead, near Ashland, Pa., tight employes were killed and a number badly wounded. The disaster occurred at a sharp purve, and was caused by the non-reception of a telegraphic dispatch. Both locomotives were destroyed. A heavy frost visited various parts of New England on the night off the 14th, causing considerable damage to growing crops.