Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1884 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. Because of advances made secretly by President Kina-, the Middlotown (N. r.) National Bank closed its doors. It 3 capital was $200,000, and the surplus $115,01,0, and the statement is made that the depositors will be paid in full. Senator Van Vr'yck, of Nebraska, is one of the directors of the broken bank. Operations have been resumed in the puddling and horseshoe departments of Shoenberger’s rolling-mills at Pittsburgh, Pa. Chess, Cook & Co.’s mills, closed for several weeks, have started up. Three hundred persons have been thrown out of employment by the temporary shut-down of the Homo Sewing Machine Company’s works at Bridgeport, Conn. Two men digging roots at Danville, Pa., dug up $47,000 in coins. The brewing firm of Burr, Son & Co., of New York, filed an assignment, giving preferences to the amount of SIIO,OOO. A gentleman in New York, after witnessing a panic caused by a mad dog, calmly seized the animal by the neck and cut its throat with a penknife. The feeling among the iron men of Pittsburgh is reported as better than for some time. Many of the mills are in receipt cf large orders in the last few days.