Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1885 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN, Gen. Grant’s physicians report his disease in an almost stationary condition, while his general health is excellent. His walks about the house and in the street cause no fatigue, and his daily ride in the park is a great pleasure. Hotel proprietors at several mountain resorts have extended invitations to the General to visit them. Willie Prentiss, of Orange, Mass., was ordered by his drunken father to shoot a cup which he held on his head, the result being the instant death of the parent. A three-story frame tenement at Jersey City, occupied by five families, collapsed, killing three children of one family and a lad of 15. Ten jiersons were Injured more or less seriously. In a Philadelphia court Margaret Brooks was sentenced to four months’ imprisonment for being a common scold. Her grown daughter struck a lady witness in the face, and was given four months for contempt of court. H. Herman Brothers’ great furniture factory at New York, surrounded by tenement houses of the poorest class, was entirely destoyed by fire, the flames driving a hundred families in their night-clothes into the street. Five hundred men are rendered idle, and the total loss approximates $400,000. In a log church at Sassafras Creek, Pa., a Sunday school was organized for the benefit of the outlawed Buzzards, Mrs. Abe Buzzard and three of her children becoming members. Fines of S3O and costs have been impose! upon Bevs. W. F. Davis and P. T. Hastings for preaching on Boston Common after being warned by the authorities.