Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1885 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. Fire destroyed the Music Hall at Buffalo, N. Y., together with St. Louis Catholic Church. The thoater building contained a valuable German library, which was entirely consumed. One man was killed. The loss is estimated at $325,000. The demise of Gen. James McQuade, at his brother’s residence in Utica, N. Y., is chronicled. John H. Eustis, a New York merchant, having been made the victim of a Chicago divorce on the testimony of two unknown men, has secured a warrant for the arrest of his former wife for perjury. The funeral of Joe Goss, the pugilist, which took place from a sporting resort in Boston, was very largely attended. John L. Sullivan sent a floral tribute rc presen* jjy the pates ajar. Another feature wn champion belt made of flowers. Gen. Grant testified that he paid in $200,C00 as a special partner in the flrm of Grant & Ward; that on May 1 last he thought himself worth $1,000,000; that he drew from the firm $3,000 per month for two years, and that everything he possessed was lost in the failure. Becky Jones, the obstinate witness in the Hammersley will case, was released from prison by order of the New York Supreme Court. New York representatives of leading rifle and cartridge manufacturers intimate very strongly that both Russia and England have placed orders in this country for arms and ammunition. There is increasing activity at the works of the manufacturers. A prize-fight in a barn in Reheboth, Mass., between Ashton and Dolan, of Providence, increased in horrors so rapidly that the spectators stopped it, for fear of fatal results. New York was visited by a disastrous fire, which resulted in the total destruction of Schumacher & Ettinger’s lithographic art establishment, involving a loss of $350,000. A corpse found in the Delaware River at Trenton, N. J., has been identified by several persons as that of B. S. Conant, the missing editor of Harper’s Weekly.