Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1884 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]
NEWS CONDENSED.
Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. Miss Victoria Morosini, daughter of Jay Gould's financial adviser and broker, fled from Yonkers with Ernest Scbelling, a young coachman, whom her father had discharged. A kettle of varnish exploded in Cragin’s japan-works, in Brooklyn, by which one man was burned to a crisp and four others received fatal injuries. Ernest Schilling, the coachman, who eloped with the daughter cf Jay Gould's private secretary, is now found to be an impecunious German nobleman. The State Bank at Fort Edward, N. V., has closed its doors. The officers say that depositors will be paid in full as soon as the accounts are examined and adjusted. There were between twenty-five and thirty deaths from sunstroke in New York City on the 11th inst A Philadelphia Judge has ruled that the occupant of a house may cut telegraph or telephone wires if stretched over his roof without his permission. Persons interested in building a railway between New York and Boston, and making the traveling time between both cities three hours, held a meeting at Boston. It was stated that a double-track road could be built for $115,000,000. Stafford & Co., of Providence, yarn manufacturers, running mills in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, have made an assignment, with liabilities of $400,000. Thomas McKeon, a desperado of the oil regions, walked into a bank at Eldred, Pa., kept the cashier and teller quiet by moans of a cocked revolver, and walked out with $2,500 in currency. Robert Hoe, senior member of the wel -known printing press firm of R. Hoe & Co., died at New York, aged 74.
