Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1884 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. Three murderers will be hanged in Pennsylvania on the 23d of September. The National Rubber Company, of Bristol, B. L, has closed down, owing tbeir workmen two months’ wages. A fire, originating in the block factory of Harvey & Farr, at Gloucester, Mass., spread until property valued at $500,000 was destroyed. The failure is announced of D. Root, Bcns & Co., agricultural implement manufacturers, of Mount Joy, Penn., with liabilities of $40,000. Mrs. J. G. Swisshelm, whose name has for forty years been a familiar one to the American public, died last week at her home in Sewicklcy, Pa. She was born in Pittsburgh in 1815. The Coatsville Iron Company, of Westchester, Pa., has failed. The liabilities are about $250,010, and the assets are estimated at SBO,OOO. The failure is said to be due to the suspension of the agents, Carrot chael & Emmens, of New York. It will result in throwing 250 men out of employment. Lewis Spencer, a colored man who died in the poor-house of Niagara Countr, New York, is believed to have been 115 years of age. The embezzlement of Sperry, the absconding Treasurer of Chautauqua Countj, New York, amounts to $90,000, and his son converted $19,000 of the public funds to hie own use, which he squandered in speculation. Overholt’s distillery, at Connellsville, Pa., with threo bonded warehouses and 7,000 barrels of whisky, was burned, the loss being placed at $605,000, fully insured. The flaming whisky floated down the river, and hundreds of men got drunk on some saved from the fire. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company paid $104,000 for 125 acres of land at Freedom, Pa., on which $1,500,000 will be expended in round houses and repair-shops. The boiler of an engine on the Lehigh Valley Ballroad burst near Whitehaven, Pa. J. W. Harsel, the engineer, his son, who acted as brakeman, John Armbruster, the fireman, and a telegraph operator named Smith were instantly killed. Ex-Gov. Harriman, of New Hampshire, has just died at the age of 67. Daniel Pratt, ex-Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New York and at one time Attorney General of that State, died at Syracuse, aged 78. A lamp explosion at Millersbnrgh, Pa., destroyed a block of buildings valued at $30,000. Fifty-one men have been placed in jail at Pittsburgh, for criminal treatment of a demented girl who wandered among the camps along the Monongahela River. Her jewelry, valued at SSOO, was found in a shanty at Elizabeth.