Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1885 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. Teemer, the Pittsburgh oarsman, challenges Hanlan .to a race of four or five miles for from SI,OOO to $5,000 a side and the championship, or five races of different distances, each for SI,OOO a side, on any water that may be agreed upon. Snow fell at several places in Maine on the 10th of June. The Governor of New York signed the Brooklyn elevated railroad bill on condition that the fare should not exceed 5 cents. Receiver Johnson, of the Marine Bank, says he believes that Ferdinand Ward has hidden away $1,000,00u. The strike of the glass-workers at Sbarp6burg, Fa., has collapsed, and the men have resumed work at the reduction. The struggle lasted six months. Mrs. William H. Dieboldt, living near Pittsburgh, Jumped into the Ohio River with her four-months-old babe in her arms, and both were drowned. Oliver Brothers & Phillips, employing over 3,000 men, have resumed operations, having signed the Amalgamated Association scale. In his last Sunday’s discourse at Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, Mr. Beecher declared that the seventh and eighth chapters of Homans could not be interpreted satisfactorily save upon the substantial theory of evolution. This theory he likened to an incomplete railway, which, in its rude condition, is the prophet of its own perfect state, and argued that it was not in conflict with the fundamental elements of Chistianity as taught by Christ himself. After the consultation of the physicians last Sunday Col. Fred Grant said his father had a bad night; that the General was growing weaker, and that his condition now seems to be one of increasing debility without pain.