Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1885 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Coneise Reeord of the Week. EASTERN. R. R. Cornell, a member of the Cornell family of New York, was found dead In Ills law office at Rochester, N. Y. Glenmore Todd, a clerk, is held in heavy bail at Philadelphia for embezzling about $150,000 from the Provincial Life and Trust Company. Richard Short, who stabbed Capt. Phelan in New York, was held in $3,000 at the Tombs Police Court. Phelan asked for protection by the police, as his left arm hung in a sling, and then requested the privilege of carrying weapons to defend himself from Short. The steel works at Nashua, N. H., suffered a loss of SIOO,OOO by the burning of its plate and bar mill. D. J. Morrell, formerly a member of Congress from Pennsylvania, and now President of the Cambria Iron Company at Johnstown, has been sent to a private insane asylum in Philadelphia. The Police Commissioners of Boston have received 800 revolvers with wbioh to arm the foroc. The captains will be held responsible for the weapons. The cashier of the Liverpool and London and Qlobe Fire Insurance Company, of New York, is a defaulter. He oonfesses to have been stealing for three years, and his peculations will amount to about $35,000. Joseph Howard, a well-known bank thief, has been arrested in Philadelphia, on the charge of having stolen SIO,OOO from a Cold water, Micfi., bank, eighteen months ago. An extra freight train on the Pennsylvania Road stopped for repairs on the Raritan bridge, at New Brunswick, N. J. The train following came atgreat speed upon the extra, the crash exploding an oil tank. The burning fluid ran down into the canal ana the streets, destroying two large factories. Five flro engines were sent out from Elizabeth and Jersey City. One or more brakemen were swept into the wrock and roasted alive. The total loss lg probably sl-00,000.