Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1884 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. At Pittsburgh, Abel Smith & Co.’s extensive glass works, a machine shop, and flvo frame dwellings were consumed by a Are. The loss is placed at $200,000. The A. T. Stearns Lumber Company’s property at Neponset, Mass., was burned, the loss reaching $210,000. William Funda & Son’s planing mill at Syracuse, N. Y., was destroyed. The statement is made that Pedder and Seymour, the once trusted employes of Arnold, Constable & Co., of New York, embezzled at least $2,030,000. It will be remembered that when the matter was made public some time ago the embezzlers turned O'er their property to the firm, which but covered a small portion of the defalcation. Great alarm is felt at Atlanticville, Long Island, over the spread of a malignant form of dysentery, which has brought sickness or death to nearly every house. William Haynes, of Boston, has been convicted for using tha mails to defraud. He received $6,003 or more by advertising remnants of silk at staryjyuon prices, and usually sent a skein in return for a dollar. Alarmed by the barking of his dogs, and believing that burglars were on his premises, Francis Kernoclian, a wealthy citizen of Pittsfield, Mass., got a revolver, intending to search the lower portion of his house. He stumbled on the way, discharging the weapon, the shot passing through liis body, indicting a fatal wound. The Kev. Father Slake lias sued the Brooklyn Eagle for SIO,OOO damages for defamation of character. Commodore Thomas S. Fillebrown, of the Ilrooklyn Navy Yard, died in that city of heart disease. A well-dressed man entered a bullion oilice on Broadway, New York, and conversed for a moment with one of the partners, from whose hands he snatched a bar of gold and made his escape. As Inspector Bassett entered the front door of the Postoffice at Patehogue, L. 1., to examine the accounts of Postmaster Hainmond, the latter disappeared through the rear door. A deficit of $1,403 has been found. Dispatches from Allegany county, New York, and the Pennsylvania line tell of a terrible cyclone. At Shongo, eight miles south of Wellsvllle, the town was destroyed and four persons were killed. In Buffalo the wind was forty-eight miles per hour, and considerable damage was done. Great damnge was inflicted at Alton, many houses being demolished and several persons injured. Tho injury to the farm property along the track of the storm is very great. New York has contributed $11,746 for the relief of the cholera sufferers in France.