Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1885 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. Abe Buzzard, the Pennsylvania outlaw, surrendered to the prison keeper at Lancaster, first extorting a promise from the jailer and bis brother that they would not claim the reward offered for his arrest. Ex-Gov. Hale of New Hampshire, •who has been carrying on extensive manufacturing enterprises in New Hampshire and Vermont, and is also largely interested in real estate in Boston, has failed for a large amount. The Juniata Building and Loan Association of Everett, Fa., has failed for $65,000. Benjamin Helpkin, a New York sa-loon-keeper, shot his wife in the heaJ and then blew out his brains. Kev. Henry Ward Beecher is preaching a series of sermons to his Plymouth Church congregation upon the subject of evolution. In his last Sunday's sermon he took the ground that the developments of science have rendered the theory of plenary and verbal inspiration of the Scriptures untenable, but that in another sense—the sense that it is a history of the human race, and that eve'-y part of it was lived—the Bible is a divinely inspired book. The preacher advised theologians to abandon the effort to harmonize such biblical legends as the story of the creation of the world in six days with the facts of science. The theory of literal inspiration, he claimed, led surely to infidelity. After the doctors had visited Gen. Grant, Sunday afternoon, they said that, as compared with a week before, thore was no appreciable increase of the swelling on the throat and no apparent increase of the cancerous trouble In the throat.

The factory of Becker lie & Co., Danbury, Conn., was burned, entailing a loss of $200,000. T. Dorrance, for eighteen years a teller in the Providence National Bank, was arrested in that city, after confessing tho embezzlemnt of SOO,OOO. William Henry, ex-business manager of the New York Herald, proposes to start a paper in opposition to the Herald and World, and claims to have $600,000 of the ueoessary $1,000,000 raised for the enterprise. At New Bedford, Mass., a confirmed inebriate named Charles Foss killed a merchant named Philip D. Slocum and then took his own life. Foss had requested his victim to send him to Hudson’s Bay, and was enraged by the delay to do so.