Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1884 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Conelse Record of the Week. EASTERN. The Connellsville Coke Association, of Pennsylvania, has now closed 60 per cent, of its ovens. Product is selling: at sl.lO per ton. A New York dispatch says that in the ruins of the burned Catholic orphan asylum at Broodyn the charred bodies of eleven boys and two grown persons were discovered. Tons of rubbish and timbers are yet to be removed, and there are fears that other corpses will be found. The roster of the little ones shows about 120 as missing:, but these are supposed to be housed in tho neigh, borbood. Of the bcdie9 found it is thought seven were those of children, one was a man and oncya woman. Diggers are still at work. It is thought other bodies will be recovered. The property loss is estimated at $210,000, as the building was valued at $200,000. Joseph Herzog, of Lancaster, Pa., has in ten years, committed forgeries aggregating $87,000. The banks are heavy losers by his operations. On information furnished by an anonymous letter, the sanitary authorities of New York discovered huge heaps of moldy human skeletons in a loft at No. 11 West Third street. The velocity of the wind on Mount Washington during last week’s cold snap, exceeded 100 miles an hour and tho mercury was frozen. Tho spirit thermometer marked nearly 60 below zero. The weather was intensely cold in New York and New England