Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1885 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Coneise Record of the Week. EASTERN. John W. Richards, a Lieutenant of the Salvation Army, and three members have been inducted at North Adams, Mass., for obtaining from merchants in different cities goods valued at >30,100, and disposing of the same. Police Inspector Thomas W. Thorne, of New York, died suddenly in a Broadway store. Charles Briggs, who cut his wife’s throat in 1883, was hanged at Philadelphia J. Spargo, Postmaster at Clarion, Pa., committed suicide by shooting himself through the heart. He was short in his accounts, and took this means of escaping disgrace. R. H. Larimore, Superintendent of a coal mine near Sewickley, Pennsylvania, was nearly murdered by one hundred riotous laborers and their wives, who attacked him on the road. Sorakichi, the Japanese wrestler, was in February married to a pretty Quakeress in Philadelphia. The bride last week caused his arrest in New York for threatening to kill her with a razor. Theophilus M. Marc’s paraffine factory at Elizabeth port, N. J., was totally destroyed by fire. The loss was $200,000; no insurance. Gen. Grant has improved sufficiently to take hominy and beef. A consultation of surgeons decided that it was mechanically possible to remove the growth in his throat, but resolved not to recommend the procedure. The Philadelphia Medical News states that the malady from which the exPresident suffers, as a rule, speedily terminates fatally, and that the duration of the life of those who survive an operation averages nineteen montns. A loss of $170,000 was incurred in South Boston by the burning of the works of the Machine Manufacturing Company, covering two acres on First street. The owners are Nash, Spaulding & Co. Frank Williams, an old miser of Portland, Me., was found dead in his candy store, having starved himself to death. Two hundred and twenty-five dollars was found concealed in the house. Boston Typographical Union, No. 13, sent the Massachusetts Prison Commissioners a protest against the project to instruct the inmates of the Concord Reformatory in the art of printing. A bed of salt seventy-eight feet thick is said to have been reached at East Aurora, N. Y., at a depth of 1,350 feet. Two explosions, caused, as it is thought, by gas, occurred in the New Jersey State House at Trenton. The building took fire, the flames spreading to the Ceological Museum on the third floor, in which many valuable relics were stored. The museum wap completely destroyed. The loss will not be lessthan SIOO,OOO. The Continental Sugar Refinery storehouse in Boston, Mass., was burned, with 10,000 barrels of £ugar. The loss is estimated at SIOO,OOO, with $75,000 insurance. On the top of Mount Washington, Now Hampshire, on the night of March 20, the wind blew at the rate of from 100 to 140 miles an hour, with the thermometer at 48 degrees below zero.