Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1884 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the We&, EASTERN. William P. Halleck, Federal Supervisor ot Elections in Brooklyn, was caught in the act of removing from the Court House two signal lanterns required as evidence in suits involving $90,000 for collision at sea. He was jailed in default of SI,OOO bait Burglars invaded the Adams Express Company’s office at Woonsocket, R. 1., and carred off SII,OOO in bonds and coupons, $4,000 in checks and notes, and SI,OOO in bank bills. Copious rains have nearly extinguished the forest fires in Southern New Jersey, which still smolder in the underbrush. The damage will reach $250,000. Mr. Mitchell Brewer drew a pail of water from his we 1 at Woo Ibury, L. 1., and, finding a green sediment at the bottom of thp pail, lnvest:gat?d matters, and found a package of parts green in the well. Thirty-six indictments have been found against Frank Fatterson, theatrical manager at Asbury Park, N. J., for forgeries aggregating $36,603. At Philadelphia, Mrs. Annie Logan, aged 28 years, killed her 3-year-old boy and herself. Bhe gave the little follow laudanum, and took a quantity herself, and then turning on the gas. so that its escape would suffocate them, laid down to die. Letters by her indicate tout poverty and the desertion of her husband led to the murder and suicide. A defective flue caused a fire in the warden's residence adjo ng the penitentiary at Pittsburg, which was damaged to the extent of $10,(100. The failure of S. Kopelowich Bros. & Co., jewelers at Syracuse, N. Y., w.th $70,000 liabll ties is announced. Internal revenue officers at Boston seized the Tremont brewery for making false returns, and arrested the proprietors. A wrestling match at New York, (Swiss style; 1 etween Frits Gownerhelm, 263 pounds, and August Schmidt, 170, ended in a draw. The iormer is known as the Swiss giant, and the latter is champion of Germany. Adams & Allen, dealers in woolens, in New York, made an assignment. The liabilities are put at $150,000. Burglars at Andover, Mass., took from the residence of Prof. Austin Phelps, SiO,«XO in bonds, and from the bouse of Prof. John P. Taylor securities valued at $35,000. All but $4,000 of the amount was found in hushes near the latter’s house.