Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1885 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. ■■ • EASTERN. As the result of a domestic misunderstanding, Dr. Morits Richter shot and killed Prof. 8. Clark Smith, a public school principal, at Middleville, N. Y. The murderer is Imprisoned at Herkimer. The New York Chamber of Commerce, as a special tribute of respect, elected Chester A. Arthur an honorary member. Charles A. King, teller of the Orleans County National Bank, shot himself fatally in a doctor’s office at Lockport, N. Y. His accounts were found to be all right. He informed the Coroner that he committed the act because he didn’t wantto live any longer. Dr. Albert G. F. Goerson was hanged at Philadelphia for poisoning his wife, nearly five years ago. The following bulletin in regard to Gen. Grant’s health is telegraphed from New York; There is no longer doubt tnat the General's malady has assumed an alarming form. Dr. Donglas thinks there is no reason to expect any Improvement of a permanent character. The great danger lies in the loss of strength incident to the difficulty of giving him nourishment which he can retain on his stomach. The retching which food induces aggravates the terrible agony he suffers from his malady. At such times not even cocaine is powerful enough to neutralize the pain. The recent prostration following the reception of the news from Washington, which was necessarily exciting and bracing, indicates how little strength the General has. The disease itself, too, has come to the surface at other points, indicating that it has been progressing rapidly within the past few days. The diseased tissue lies in such a place that the knife can not be used, and there is no hope of prolonging the life of the distinguished patient beyond a few weeks. Only a few of the most intimate friends of the family are admitted to the house, and no visitor enters the sick chamber. Judge Moore, of Brooklyn, sentenced a Coney Island hotel proprietor to three months in the penitentiary and fined him $750, for pool-selling. A Brooklyn landlord was given two months. The Directors of the New York Central Road report that owing to the snow blockade nothing was earned on the stock during February. The balance for the quarter was $940,000, out of which $894,284 was appropriated for a dividend of 1 per cent. A congress of churches, embracing all Christian denominations, will be held at Hartford, Conn., early in May.