Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1885 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. The disaster in New York City a few weeks ago which caused the collapse of tho Buddenslek building traps has now been foliowed by one in Brooklyn with a still more fearful loss of life. A factory which was propped up because it was insecure suddenly collapsed when it was filled with working people. Fire added its terrors to the damage caused by the falling walls, and the result was the death of a large numberof operatives and the maiming of still more. A jury in New York acquitted Richard Short of an attempt to murder Capt. Phelan, of Kansas City. George W. Tripp. 79 years old, of Freeville, N. Y., hanged himself on being informed that his wife, whose age is 78, had a cancer and could not live. A verdict for S4OO was rendered last week against Prof. Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen for slapping a boy at West Hampton, L. 1., in 1883, causing him to become deaf. Nearly one hundred deaths have occurred from the epidemic at Plymouth, Pa., and the worst is not over yet. A committee of local physicians has discovered a satisfactory explanation of the epidemic. At tho head waters of the mountain stream supplying Plymouth with water is a house in which typhoid has prevailed for the past three months. The excreta of the sick were thrown into a privy forty feet fiom the stream, and were washed into the stream by March rains. By this pollution of the water supply one thousand persons were poisoned. It is now ascertained that at least twenty-one lives were lost by the burning of tho factory building in Atlantic avenue, Brooklyn. A New York dispatch says that Gen. Grant’s four physicians, at the weekly consultation, found the cancerous spots in his throat unchanged. lloscoe Conkiing was among his visitors. The total imports of merchandise at New York during the week amounted to over 51, M0,000, und of dry goods to nearly $1,500,000. Charles Lehman, aged 72, and his wife, aged 71, were found dead in their rooms in New York. The couple had taken paris green. Extreme poverty is supposed to bo the cause of the suicides.