Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1885 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

A fire in Buffalo destroyed a greater portion of the Washington Block, containing the offices of the Express, the job-printing house of Mathews, Northrup & Co., and numerous stores. A printer named James Boss was fatally injured, and George E. Mathews waß burned in the face.

The New York Legislature has passed the Niagara reservation bill providing for a free park around the falls. In a divorce bill filed, at Pittsburgh, Thomas Carney relates how his wife’s passion for base-ball, intensified by reckless betting, made a wreck of his previously happy home. The overseers of Harvard College decline to abrogate the rule requiring attendance on daily prayers. Maddux & Co., New York coffee importers, made an assignment, with liabilities Of $200,000. An old woman named Sands died nqar Westchester, N. Y. Cash and bonds amounting to $240,000 were found concealed, sewed up in an old petticoat. The heirs are four nephews, one of whom is said to reside In Chicago. Edward Sumner, aged 70 years, one of the most promlrent and wealthy residents of West Dedham, Mass., hanged himself in his barn. Hlhealth is supposed to have been the cause. A two-story frame building two miles from Reading, Pa., was burned, and four persons, Charles Wentzel, aged 13, Harry Wentzel, aged 11, Fred Hettinger, aged 20, and Charles Hettinger, aged 16, were burned to death.

Dan Mace, the famous driver of trotting horses, died at his residence in New York.