Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1884 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. Miss Roma Sickles, stepsister of Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, has been clandestinely married to WiHiam Meade, a coachman employed at the residence of her father, George G. Sickles, at New Rochelle, N. V. The affair creates a sensation. The sum of $20,000 in bonds has been mysteriously abstracted from a safety deposit vault in Boston. Suspicion attaches to a young man related to one of the trustees of the property, who has had access to the box. The extensive vitriol-works of James Irwin & Co., at Pittsburgh, valued at SIOO,000, were wiped out bv Are. A race for $12,000 between Miss Woodford and Drake Carter attracted twenty thoueand persons to Sheepshead Bay, Long Island. The former, who was entered by Dwyer Brothers, made 2!4 miles in 4;28 3 4. It is alleged that the “Molly Maguire” organization is showing signs of activity in the coal regions of Pennsylvania. Rindskopf Bros. & Co., clothiers, at New York, have made an assignment, giving preferences for $886,980. Their liabilities are estimated at $900,000, while the actual assets are said to amount to $1,100,000. Four of the miners’ wives at Coal Center, Pa., have been arrested—three for conspiracy and one for assault. They are members of the “tin-pan brigade,” a body of 200 women who visit the collieries every morning to induce the non-unionists to join the strikers. Priddy, a Pittsburgh oarsman, who engnged in a contest last week, has since developed paralysis in both arms, which can not be removed by a galvanic battery, and it is alleged that he was poisoned in the interest of his rival. A factory at Wheeling produced 7,564 kogs of steel nails in fll'ty-flve hours last week, which beats all records. At the Sheepshead Bay races Miss IVoodford beat all previous records by making the second two-mile heat in 3:3114. The best previous authentic record was 3:34Ji, made by Willie D. at Prospect Park In 1879. Thousands of New Yorkers, representing various grades of society, attended tho obsequies of Jerry McAuley, the reformed river thief, at the Broadway Tabernacle, New York. Brief addresses were delivered by Rev. Dr. Irenaeus Prime, Dr. M. Taylor, and A. S. Hatch, the banker.