Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1885 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Ooneise Reeord of the Week. EASTERN. Commodore C. K. Garrison died at his residence in New York, The Conference Committee of the Amalgamated Association presented its scale for next year to the representatives of tho iron manufacturers at Pittsburgh, hist week. They claim that the present rate of wages should continue, with heavy advances for the performance of certain work. After un informal discussion tho meeting adjourned until May 14. Wainwright’s brewery, a four-story building at Pittsburgh, Pa., collapsed tho other morning. The disaster is supposed to be due to the weight of 10,000 barrels of beer which were stored in the building. The loss is estimated at 8100,000. Eight persons are known to have perished in a tenement-house lire in Fifth avenuo, New York, and fourteen others were injured by smoke and through leaping from the windows. Three persons perished in tho flames of a burning house at Watertown, N. Y. A young woman was so badly injured that she is not expected to live. Rev. Dr. Burchard has preached liis farewell sermon as pastor of the Murray street Presbyterian Church, New York.