Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1885 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record d the Week. EASTERN. In the United States Court at Chicago, Judges Harlan and Gresham were unable to agree on one of, the points involved in the Mackin-Gallagher case, and it now goes to the United States Supreme Court at Washington, the defendants having so requested. The latter were required to renew their bail of $50,00J each. A young Bohemian, of Pittsburgh, named Frantz Karlina, killed a girl of 3 years, a daughter of the family with whom he boarded, and then took his own life. His reason for the deed is not revealed. Mountain and forest fires are raging in different sections of Pennsylvania. A handsome young lady, giving the name of J. Jones, took a room in the Grand Union Hotel in New York, where she shot herself through the heart. She was sane enough to cut the initials from her handkerchief. No secret is being made of the fact that the illness which caused ex-Secretary Frelinghuysen’s death was primarily caused by a large quantity of aconite, which had been mysteriously placed in the mineral water he used. A dispatch from Plymouth, Pa., reports that the epidemic there has taken a fresh start, and great despondency exists among the people. There were fifty patients in the hospital. One block of track for the surface railway on Broadway, New York, has been laid at Fourteenth street. Jacob Sharp began his fight for this franchise in 1851, his chief antagonists I eing A. T. Stewart and Commodore Vanderbilt. A contract has been made with five telegraph operators in New York to proceed to Siam and spend three years in the postal servic?, teaching the Morse system. They are to receive SIOO per month and all expenses.