Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1884 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. Boston's debt lias increased $1,485,677 during tbo fiscal year. The Waltham Watch Company, of Massachusetts, has decided to run only four days each week in July, and to suspend entirely for half of August. A collision of freight cars caused a petroleum fire at Driftwood, Pa., which consumed fifteen buildings, including the Postoffice and Gazette office, causing a loss of $75,000. Five cotton-duck mills in Maryland, owned by William E. Hooper & Sons, in which 1,200 men are employed, have shut down for the summer on account of a glut of goods. Mr. Blaine attended the commencement dinner of Colby Cniverslty at Waterville, Me., was enthusiastically received, and made a short address, remarking that although he had been opposed to coeducation the work of Colby had almost convinced him of its wisdom. The Revere Rubber Company’s works Bt Bevere, near Boston, were destroyed by lire. Spontaneous combustion was the cause of the fire. The Joss is placed at $ >OO,OOO and the insurance is said to be 8400,000. A New York dispatch states Tilden • valks daily with friends about Graystone, and shows even more than usual health. The steamship Gulf of Vincent, !rom Calcutta, went ashore on Long Island. The life saving crew took off forty persons, but the vessel will probably be lost.