Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1884 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. Three boys at Rondout, N. Y., dared one another to venture upon thin ice. Ail ■were drowned. The Pittsburgh base ball team for nest season represents a cost of over $31,000, which includes $6,000 paid for the release of the Columbus players. This is said to be more money than was ever before paid for a base ball club in the United States. Feignespaugh’s brewery at Newark, X. J., was buroei, the loss reaching: SIOO,OOO. George W. Jones, of the New York Timex, reiterates his statement that the Grant fund of $250,000 in Wabash bonds has not tailed to pay interest; that the late Edwin D. Mortran guaranteed the principal of the subscription, and that the large estate of the latter is in no way involved.

The entertainment for the actors’ fund at New York netted SIO,OOO. Presidentelect Cleveland, who came from Albany to attend the performance, was the chief magnet, and his reception by the vast audience was very enthusiastic. Mr. Cleveland’s box was guarded by the police, for the purpose of excluding interviewers and politicians.

The Aldermen of New York have passed over the Mayor’s veto a resolution permuting the construction of a surface railroad in Broadway. A number of the pig-iron furnaces at Pittsburgh, Pa., will blow in during January, the stock on hand being lighter now than at any previous time for years. During the progress of a party at the residence of Farmer Young, of Stafford's Corners, Conn., some one attempted" to meddle with some dynamite cartridges that lay on the kitchen shelf. A terrific explosion followed. The house was blown to piecos. One of the guests was killed outright, and four more will die. Francis Murphy, the temperance revivalist, exhibits twenty-five hundred signatures to tho pledge as the result of a week’s work at Pittsburgh. During a terrible wind and rain storm at Trenton, N. J., fire broke out in the Home Rubber Company’s Works, which were entirely consumed, involving a loss of $50,000.