Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1885 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. Nearly six thousand pounds of nitroglycerine exploded at a factory three miles south of Bradford, Pennsylvania. Two men were killed, one of them being scattered in fragments all over the neighborhood. The site of the building is marked by an immense hole in the ground. New York dispatches of the 11th inst. report a marked improvement, though only a temporary one, it is feared, in Gen. Grant’s condition. “His physicians attribute this improvement to a change in remedies. Up to yesterday they have depended upon ancones to give him the needed repose. These interfered with his digestion, aggravated his stomach weakness, and left him weaker everyday. Stimulation was resorted to, and, although the patient expressed great distaste for anything alcoholic, its use has been followed by the happy effect described. Wnlle his physicians do not expect any permanent improvement, they are hope ul that the returning strength of the patient will so brace his digestive 1 unctions that he will be able to resist the inroads of his d sease perhaps for months.” Mrs. Willis Henderson, 23 years old, the pretty wife of a prominent farmer at (Vest Shelby, N. Y., blew out her brains. Fire in Gill’s art store at Springfield, Mass., damaged pictures, statuary, books, and bric-a-brac $50,01'0. About 500 market men of Boston attended an auction sale of a car-load of fresh beef from St. Louis, one quarter being dispose lof at a Ime. The scheme proved successful. Mrs. McCloskey, living on the third floor, of a tenement house in New York, sprang from bed and threw her babe out of the window, fracturing its skull. Her husband leaped up in time to save the second child, which his wife had attempted to sieze. It js-ould appear that the woman was insane from drink. The mansion of John L. Aspinwall, at Tarrytown, on the Hudson River, was burned, the loss being $70,000. Drs. Sands and Shrody, consulting physicians in Gen. Grant’s case, visited the General’s residence and held a consultation with Dr. Douglass. They fully indorsed the treatment of the patient adopted by Drs. Barker and Douglass. The General was in a comfortable condition. The local disease is believed, for the present, to be stationary. A decision was rendered in the United States Circuit Court at Boston in the suits against the stockholders of the defunct Pacific National Bank re juiring the defendants to pay a second assessment of 100 per cent, on their stock. The loss of the stockholders by this decision is $2,000,000.