Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1884 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. Permission has been granted to build a surface railway on Broadway, New York, from the Battery to Fifteenth street, the company agreeing to pay the city 3 per cent of its earningrs. Rev. Henry Williamson, of Trenton, N. J., went to the outskirts of the city and literally blew out his brains with a revolver. < Masked men robbed the house of Captain John Morrow, an invalid, at Mansfield, Pa., of SSOO and valuables. They bound and gagged Mrs. Morrow and a female friend in a brutal manner, and the former may not recover. Hereafter glove-fights will be prohibited by the police In Madison Square Gar den. New York. The hundredth anniversary of the consecration of Bishop Seabury, of Connecticut, was commemorated, by appropriate Episcopal services in London, New York, and Hartford. The Vermont Legislature has elected Homer E. Boyce, Jonathan ltoss, H. H. Powers, W. G. Vesey, John W. Howell, and W. H. Walktr Supreme Court Judges, the firstnamed being Chief Justice. Congressman Wm. A. Duncan, Democrat, of the Nineteenth Pennsylvania District, who was very low with consumption at the time of his re-election, died at his home in Gettysburg last week. Meyers & Cohen, dealers in cloaks, New York, have made an assignment, with preferences amounting to $39,000. After a strike of nine months, the coal miners of the Monongahcla valley hungry nnd half naked, are resuming work at the old rates. There are sixty or moro still in jail in Washington County.