Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1884 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

■■ , ■ Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. The Glen House in the White Mountains, New Hampshire, was destroyed by fire. The loss is over 8225,000, the insurance about 8100,000. The hotel will be rebuilt. Experienced well-borers have leased 3,000 acres of land on the Monongahela River, a few miles above Pittsburgh, and will endeavor to find petroleum. This territory has never been tested. N. Marcus Norton, the alleged railroad millionaire, who was arrested in Boston for non-payment of a board bill, claims that he lost $50,000 by the operations of ex-Sena-tor Ferry, of Michigan, for whom he procured discounts at the East. The unskilled workmen employed at Oliver Brothers & Phillips’ iron mills, Pittsburgh, have resolved to resist a reduction of 1214 per cent, in their pay by striking. The strike will throw several thousand out of employment. While a party of boys were hunting near Binghamton, N. Y., George Turner fired his musket among his companions, one of whom was killed and another was fatally injured. The shooter has been lodged in jail. James Graves, a partner in a New York jewelry house, on returning from Europe with his wife, declared that he had only a few dutiable articles, and they of small value. When the customs inspectors proposed to search his .person, he fainted. Unset diamonds of the value of $20,000 were found concealed in the clothing of the couple. A fire in Philadelphia, originating in Hancock’s storage warehouse m Brown street, soon caused the destruction of that structure and nine dwellings by falling walls, the total loss being $500,000. The staff of the New' York Herald has been reorganized, and thirty-nine editors and reporters discharged. k Ira T.r Litchfield, a Boston millionaire, has been dupedta the amount of $30,000 or more by Charles H. Foster, a veteran confidence operator. An examination of the accounts of ex-City Treasurer John,,W. Stout, of Newark, N.-X, now deceased, shows $70,000 unaccounted for.