Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1884 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

Snow fell in various parts of New Hampshire on the 16th inst. Marion Jackson and Jack Newburn, local pugilists, fought a prize-fight at Pittsburgh, with bare knuckles, for a purse of 8300, resulting in favor of Jackson in the fifteenth rcund. Both men were severely punished. Frank E. Bean, an ice dealer in Bockland County, New York, secured judgment for 875,000 against the West Shore Boad for breach of contract. An express train on the Boston and Albany Boad was wrecked near Kinderhook, N. Y. Halls were placed across the track at this point, and the train was moving at the rate of forty miles per hour at the time of the'accident. The engineer and fireman were badly injured, and three other train hands sustained injuries. James Wormley, the proprietor of tho Wormley Hotel at Washington, D. C., a well-known and wealthy colered man, died in

Boston, after a lingering illness. He was Bom in Washington sixty-four years ago. At Brooklyn two 4-story business buildings were destroyed by fire, involving .a lose of $300,000.