Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1885 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Capt. O’Brien, of the steamer City of Mexico, has been arrested in New York for carrying arms and munitions of war to the Colombian insurgents. In Camden County, N. J., orchards, buildings, and other property have been devastated by forest fires, the loss approximating 8100,080. The fires are still blazing in some sections, and trains, in a few instances, run for miles through smoko and ilame. Overexertion on roller-skates caused the death of George Smithey, a citizen of Pittsburgh. The extensive boot and shoe factory of Bridges & Co., at South Framingham, Mass., was damaged by fire to the amount of s2oo*ooo. Health officers from the sea-board cities hold a conference at New York, and decided upon the csiablishment of rigid rules to prevent the introduction of cholera. Rag cargoes will be closely quarantined until they are either boiled or steamed, the sulphur process being voted a failure. • Isaac W. England, publisher of the New York Sun, died at Ridgewood, N. J., of dropsy of tho heart. It is reported that William H. Vanderbilt is seriously ill, having suffered two strokes of paralysis. Ho has retired from both business and social life, and is rarely seen driving. Milton Weston, who is designated as a Chicago millionaire, has been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment in the Western Penitentiary of Pennsylvania, for inciting tho Murraysvillo riot, in which one man was killed.