Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1885 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. In boarding a moving train in Philadelphia, John McCullough, the actor, slipped from, the platform, and would have been crushed to death had not a colored attendant, who grasped Mr. McCullough’s hand, by a great effort pulled him on board. The -works of the Plymouth Cordage Company, Plymouth, Mass., were burned down, causing a loss of $400,000, on which there is an insurance of $350,000. • Fire destroyed Smith & Hedge’s furniture factory, Newark, N. J.; 1055.525,000. U. S. Grant, Jr., testified in a New YorK court that the day succeeding the collapse of the family banking-house, Ferdinand Ward made to him a full confession of his rascality. Reports from different tobacco sections of Connecticut show a good crop, but indifference on the part of manufacturers to buy until the action of Congress on the Spanish treaty is known. The Rev. Dr. Noah Hunt Schenck, of St. Ann’s Episcopal Church, Brooklyn, died of blood poisoning, resulting from the amputation of a corn. Dr. Tanszky, the well-known expert in insanity, attempted to kill himself and wife in Lexington avenue, New York. His friends have considered him of unsound mind for some time past. A bare-knuckle prize-fight between Jere McCloskey, ot' Mount Pleasant, Pa., and Korser Price, of England, took place near Pittsburgh, Pa., resulting in favor of McCloskey, who knocked his antagonist senseless in the tenth round.

Ex-Gov. Cobourn died at Skoehegan, Me., aged 82 years. He never recovered from u severe attack of illness received whi e attending the electoral college at Augusta.