Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1885 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. The ship-building firm of Goss, Sawyer & Packard, of Bath, Me., have assets of *600,000, with *300,000 liabilities. They have not failed, but ask an extension of their creditors. In the municipal court at Boston, John L. Sullivan was fined 515 for fast driving and cruelty to a horse. More than half the druggists in New York City, it has been discovered, havo been . selling adulterated quinine, and several arrests are pending. An express train of four coaches was wrecked at Greenville, N. J., on the Reading Boad, by the breaking of a wheel. Twentyfive passengers wero wounded, eight of them only slightly, A special train was sent out from Jersey City for the sufferers. Dr. «Tean Babtiste Marchisi, the oldest resident of Utica, N. Y. is dead. Chittenden Rogers, an expert bic-y----clist and polo player, while engaged in a game of polo at Binghamton, N. Y., fell with such force that he was almost instantly killed. An explosion of dynamite occurred In New York City, shattering the fronts of Garry Bros.’ and Ridley Bros.’ dry-goods store, corner of Grand avenue and Allen street. The damage amounts to 52,800. Five arrests were made. Striking employe; are charged with responsibility for the explosion. Three explosions of natural gas almost simultaneously at Pittsburgh wrecked three houses, damaged others, and broke all the windows in the vicinity. Eighteen persons were wounded, soven of the victims not being expected to recover, and one woman is missing. A flying beer keg knocked the driver off a passing street car, which was hurled from the track, and the passengers 'badly injured. Threats are being made to tear up the pipes of the Gas Fuel Company, and suits for damages will be instituted. The body of Robert A. Wallace, who died at Buffalo eight years ago, was exhumed, and a will discovered between the vest and shirt in which be was prepared for the coilin. The disposition of his property by a second wife in favor of her children as against the deceased's children by a former wife led to the remarkable discovery.