Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1884 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. 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. Three young English students at the Moody School at Greenfield, Mass., were drowned while bathing. Boston dispaches mention the discovery of a counterfeit dollar, differing only slightly from the genuine as to weight and thickness. The Rev. Charles Sharp, a Catholic priest, shot himself dead at Bloomfield, near Pittsburg, Pa. He was crazed by sickness. Samuel Roberts, late paymaster of Charles Parrish & Co., coal operators at Wllkesbarre, Pa., is reported a defaulter to the amount of ScO.OOO or $75,000. He surrendered his property to his employers, and a settlement has been effected. Ex-Congressman Henry M. Phillips died at Philadelphia, aged 73. Bannister’s shoe factory at Newark, N. J., was burned. Loss, SIOO,OOO. An unknown sailor died of yellow fever in New York, the firsf case there. In celebrating his 75th birthday, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes received congratulatory telegrams from numerous friends in Europe and America. Responsible citizens of New York have repeatedly offered $1,000,000 for a horse-car franchise on Broadway. The late A. T. Stewart was successful in preventing encroachments upon that noted thoroughfare. The Council recently gave away the right, and Mayor Edson vetoed the ordinance and secure! an injunction in the courts. Interested parties caused the injunction to be dissolved, and the Council held a secret meeting and passed the charter over the veto.