Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1884 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. By a collision of West Shore trains at Rochester, a conductor and a brakeman were badly bruised and a passenger had five ribs broken. The wholesale clearing house of Theodore Diesel & Co., at Syracuse, N. Y., was destroyed by fire. Nearly 1,000 people are thrown of employment. The loss is about $75,000. The New York newspapers which reduced their prices to 2 cents some time ago are about to increase to 3 cents. The 2-cent experiment did not work. Gen. George W. Tew died at Newport, R. L, after a prolonged illness. He served through the war, and had been several times chosen Secretary of State. At Mount Vernon, N. Y., the banking house of James M. Masterson & Co. closed its doors. A run on the East Chester Springs Bank soon followed. Col. Lendal Pratt, of Hyde Park, Queens County, N. Y., became crazed at the defeat of Blaine, and had to be taken to an insane asylum. He jumped from one of the windows and broke his neck. He was 73 years old, and had worked hard for the defeated candidate.