Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1884 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. Rhody Bovle, a farmer, living near Bt, Joe, la. delivered to three masked u en, under pressure of cocked revol. ers, $13,000. The robte s then took to the woods. One million silver dollars were coined at the Philadelphia mint during 1 tho month of July. There gathered at Ocean Grove, N. J., last week, 300 persons who were Chaplains in the contending arm os of the civil war or members of the Sanitary and Christian Commission?. Ashley & Bailey’s silk factory, and the Fort Plain Glove Factory, at Fort Plain, N. Y., burned, resulting in a los3 or 810,000. Moorehouse Bios.’ paper mill, at Brldesburg, Pa., wa? also consumed, as were the Methodist Church and parsonage and a storo at Conquest, N. Y. Jay-Eye-See beat the trotting record at Providence, making the mile in 2:10. The Greelv arctic relief expedition came to anchor in the harbor of Portsmouth, N. H., on the morning of the Ist inst. The party was warmly welcomed by Secretary Cband'er, all the naval vessels in porl, and the citizens \ enerally. Alton, N. Y., was half destroyed by fire, involving a io3e of 815,000. The glass works of King, Son & Co. at Pittsburgh, valued at $50,1.00, took fire from a leakage in the natural gas pipes and was wholly consumed. The survivors of the Greelv expedition will le kept at the Portsmouth Navy Yard for ho pital treatment for two weeks. A epee al parade and demonstration was held at Portsmouth to honor the return of the explorers.