Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1885 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. *The Mayor of Dover, N. H., notified the Salvation Army that It must not parade with music. Captain Thompson defies all earthly power, and has sent to Maine for soldiers. The Mayor has given the police a quiet hint that some funerals are desirable. T. "W. Clark, member of a banking firm in Boston, is missing, and is supposed to be sojourning across the border. His shortages are placed at about $13,000. In a row in O'Donovan Bossa’e'office at New York, Richard Short, a butcher employed at the Chicago Stock Yards, fatally stabbed Thomas Phelan, who is said to be Superintendent of the Kansas City Workhouse. Before being taken to the hospital Phelan fired two shots at Short, wounding him in the thigh.

Operations have been resumed by the National Tube Works at McKeesport, Pa. The works give employment to 2,503 men. The steam-tug Dougherty exploded her boiler, near Elizabeth, Pa., killing two men and scalding three others. The smokestack was blown over a hill two hundred feet high. The Farmers’ Bank of Elizabethtown, Pa., closed its doors. The liabilities are SBO,000, and the depositors are likely to lose heavily. The publication of the daily edition of the New York S'ar has been discontinued, owing to the “phenomenal condition of affairs now prevailing in newspaper circles.” The latest report regarding Gen. Grant is that he is suffering from a swelling of the tongue that threatens to develop into a cancer. It will be remembered that the late Senator Hill, of Georgia, suffered from this terrible malady.

W. H. Vanderbilt, having yielded to the request of Gen. Grant, bought in all the real estate, war relics and works of art mortgaged to him by the General, and presented the entire list to Mrs. Grant, with the condition that on the death of the General all articles of historical value shall become the property of the nation, to be in preservation at Washington.