Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1884 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. The School Superintendents of Massachusetts resolved at Boston in favor of opening all the schools in the State for night sessions, it being shown that 90,000 persons cannot read or write. It was decided at a Boston businessmen’s conference to ask Congress to suspend the act requiring the coinage of silver dollars, to enact the bankruptcy bill passed by the Senate at its last session, and to pass at an early date the bill to carry into effect the reciprocity treaty with Mexico. An iron foundry and flint-glass works at Pittsburgh and three cotton factories in New England announce that a reduction of 10 per cent, in wages will be made next month, unless a material change in the market become visible'. Most of the ingrain carpet mills at Philadelphia closed down, because the weavers refused to accept a reduction of wages. Clement, Hierdt & Co., New York liquor-dealers, have made an assignment. Liabilities, §163,000; actual assets, §17,000. A severe earthquake shock was felt iu various portions of New Hampshire Nov. 22. At a Boston hotel, as the result of a bet on Blaine, Charles A. Hill ate a fat crow, which bad been delicately roasted, while the winner and his friends dined on grouse. The schools at Nashua, N. H., have closed on account of the prevalence of scarlet fever.