Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1884 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Coneise Record of the Week. EASTERN. The New York office of the Union Pacific Boad will be closed, except to transfere. C. S. Henry and A. E. Lnxow, heavy petroleum traders at New York, have failed. Henry was short 600,000 barrels. New Jersey and New York brick manufacturers will shut down Sept 20, which will result in reducing the production of 20,000,00C bricks. An assignment has been made by Edmond Yard, Jr., &Co., lace merchants of New York, on aocount of the difficulty of obtaining money on single-name paper. Their liabilities are $1,000,000. Julian White, Sons & Co., fancy dry goods, New York, have made an assignment Sewell & Erickson, jobbers in millinery goods at New York, have suspended. The liabilities of the firm are said to be between $300,000 and $500,000. Mrs. Caroline E. Brown, the mother of Artemus Ward, is dead. Alleged cases of cholera in a New York tenement have proved to be Bimply summer complaint Four men have in the past few years been sent from New York to the Penitentiary for robbing the dry-goods house of Arnold, Constable k Co. Henry C. Pedder, the manager, has Just transferred to the firm a oostly residence at Orange, New Jersey, and Herbert Seymour, the confidential bookkeeper, is said to be a defaulter for $50,000. W. W. Johnson, a broker of Greenpoint N. Y., has disappeared. His financial affairs are not in a satisfactory condition. Samuel Smith was killed at Shaners, Pa., while walking on the railroad track, and his daughter, aged 15, was fatally injured.