Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1885 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. I EASTERN. * A boy brought to the salesrooms of the American Tract and Bible Society in New I York a box containing an infernal machine, which would have exploded but for the bungling way in which the spring was arranged. One of the clerks who had partially opened the box laid it aside, and sent for Anthony Comstock, whose office is in the same building, who, on bis arrival, Immediately recognized wljat it was designed for. Comstock tore tbe machine apart and calmly removed the deadly works within. ; 1 Had it exploded it would have caused loss of life to many in the store. Thomas Van Valin died at Syracuse, ! N. Y., Christmas Day, at the age of 101 years and 11 months. Elliott Bros. & Co., dry goods, Philaj, delphfa, are unable to meet* engagements. They owe $227,000, and offer 60 cents on the if dollar. It is feared that the plan of allotment proposed by the anthratlc coal interests in Pennsylvania will be defeated by the opposition of Pennsylvania Railroad. ■ Baltzer Gehr, who had resided in Crawford County, Pa., elghty-four years, died Christmas Day, aged 103 years and 6 | months.