Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1884 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. In attempting to lower their records at Belmont Park, Philadelphia, Jay-Eye-See made the mile in 2:10*4 and Phallas in 2:1454. The firm of Warner & Merritt, fruit Importers at Philadelphia, have assigned. The liabilities are $500,001. The Rev. Dr. John Brown, the oldest Episcopal minister of New York State, died last week at Newbnrg. He delivered an address of welcome to Lafayette in 1824. Maud S. has been sold by W. H. Vanderbilt to Robert Bonner for $40,000, and taken to New York to be retired from the track. The Grand Lodge of Knights of Pythias of Pennsylvania reported the number of lodges in the State at 360, with a membership of 34,955. It having been rumored that a compromise was being arranged in New York by which Ferdinand Ward would be released, another order of arrest has been obtained by William H. Bingham, a broker, who brings suit for $48,000 obtained by the firm of Grant & Ward under false representations. A fire broke out in the Buck Ridge Mine elope, near Shamokin, Pa., 1,000 feet from the surface, and, while men were engaged in drilling a hole for the purpose of turning a creek into the mine to flood it, gas suddenly poured in from the burning mine, and before they could escape seven men fell victims to the deadly vapor. At a meeting of oil producers held at Pittsburgh, it was unanimously resolved to Stop the drill till Jan. 1, 1885. The property of the Sprague Manufacturing Company at Augusta, Me., which fifteen years ago cost $2,000,000, has just been sold at auction for about $200,000. Reports received in Boston from 325 points in New England indicate that the hay crop this year will be about 30 per cent, less than it was a year ago. President Arthur received the officers of the Greely relief expedition at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York. Secretaries Chandler and Lincoln and Gen. Butler were present. Secretary Chandler informed Commander Schley that the President had decided to appoint him Chief of the Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting. Nearly eight hundred sheep and hogs were killed by a collision of trains at Lancaster, Penn. The American Bar Association, in session at Saratoga, elected John Stevenson, of Kentucky, President, and Edward Otis Hinkley, of Baltimore, Secretary. A Vice President and local council of four were elected for each State belonging to the association. The United States naval steamer Tallapoosa collided with a schooner off Martha's Vineyard, Mass., and sunk within ten minutes. Surgeon Clarence E. Black and George A. Foster, landsman, are reported lost. She was on her way to Newport to take on board Secretary Chandler and party. Oil has been struck at Emsworth, Pa., which has created great excitement thereabout. A train on the New York and New England Railroad was thrown off the track near Quinebaug, Conn. One smoker and a passenger car fell down an embankment a distance of twenty feet. Many passengers were seriously injured, Fennimore Clayton, a farmer of Middletown, N. Y., afflicted with delirium tremens, took his 2-year-old son into the yard and shot him through the brain. He next at tempted the life of his wife and his mother, who knocked him senseless with a base-ball bat.