Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1884 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week, EASTERN. Upon opening a ventilator in a tiger’s sage at Forepaugh’s circus, at Waterbury, Conn., Richard Clark was seized by one of file animals, two others immediately attacking him also. He was dragged inside the ( ?age and horribly mutilated before being rescued, the tigers having been beaten off by xon bars. A carriage at Greylock Crossing, Mass., containing George and Alice Hall, was struck by an e.i press train. The corpse Jf the young man remained on the pilot, while that of the lady was thrown on a high sank. The remains of the celebrated Iroquois Chief, Red Jacket, and those of other distinguished warriors were reinterrad the ather day at Buffalo, on the lot donated by the Forest Lawn Association. A large number of Indians were present at the ceremony. While the remains were being carried in cedar caskets from the rooms of tho Historljal Society, chiefs, wearing native costumes, •hanted Indian funeral dirges. The United States steam cruiser Atlanta, which was successfully launched last week at Chester, Pa., was christened by Jessie Lincoln, daughter of the Secretary of War. In demolishing a building on the summit of East Rock, at New Haven, .the laborers discovered several spacious underground passages leading to a vault, and in the latter were found counterfeit coin and a broken die. The house of a farmer named Joseph Gates, near Johnstown, Pa., was Invaded by live masked men, well armed, who forced the family to surrender $l,lOO in cash. The International Electrical Exhibition at Philadelphia closed last week. The act profits of the affair were about $50,000. The New Haven Morning News announces that President Theodore Woolsey Bas resigned from Yale College, the reason assigned being his advanced years. Joe Buzzard and gang, the terror of Pennsylvania towns, were released from (ail at Ephrata, and celebrated tho event by committing several daring robberies. They were pursued, but escaped.