Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1885 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. The scale conference of the iron manufacturers and Amalgamated Association met at Pittsburgh, and, after a brief session, adjourned sine die, without having reached an amicable settlement of .the wages question. H. H. Munsell, of New Yorik, who visited the office of O’Donovan Hossa while serving as a juror on the trial of Richard Short, was fined $250 and sentenced to thirty days in jail for contempt. Emil Domer was sentenced at Pittsburgh to two years in the penitentiary for illegal voting. The surplus reserve of the New York banks is $57,416,000. The steamer Colon landed at New York 100 marine officers and men from the Isthmus of Panama. S. R. Brick, a millionaire gas works contractor, and Andre J. Dara, proprietor of the Union Square Hotel, New York, are dead. Commodore Jonathan Young, commandant of the New London navy yard, died suddenly at London, Conn. The residence of Edwin Booth, in Boston, was the scene of the marriage of his only daughter and Ignatius C. Grossman. William Warren was the only representative of the theatrical profession in attendance. A New York telegram of May 18 says: "The consultation of Drs. Sands, Shrady, and Douglas, at Gen. Grant’s, yesterday afternoon, lasted nearly two hours. This was much longer than usual, and was due to the grave symptoms that have appeared in the case within a few days. The doctors were disinclined to say much about it beyond admitting that the cancer had again become noticeably active. Just what this might threaten or how near the danger line the disease had progressed was not quite clear to the doctors. The gravity of the case may be inferred, however, from the decision to encourage tho General to sleep all he possibly could, regardless of daylight.”