Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1885 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. '■ - ■ EASTERN. Mount MacGregor (N. Y.) telegram: “Gen. Grant’s physician says that, •while his distinguished patient’s life has been prolonged by the transfer to Mount MacGregor, the fact remains that he loses strength with each succeeding day.” Washington telegram: "Col. Dent, Gen. Grant’s brother-in-law, who is in Washington, said yesterday that he had received informatioh from the family that the cancer had commenced to inflame the jugular vein, and that death was a question of but a few days in the opinion of the physicians.” Mrs. Lucille Yseult Dudley, who some time ago made an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate O’Donovan Roesa, has been acquitted by a New York jury on the ground that she was insane at the moment of firing the shot. The total exports of produce from New York the last week were valued at nearly $7,000,000. Abel Devins, of Des Moines, lowa, a student at Cornell, was accidentally knocked from the bridge at Livermore Fa Is, N. H., and, falling on the rocks beneath, was killed instantly. Edward A. and George H. Boyd, father and son, convicted at New York of defrauding the Government by illegally importing plate-glass, have been sentenced, the son to pay SI,OOO fine, and the father to be imprisoned for two years. According to the new directory of New York, the population of that city is now 1,553,730. Wm. Mencken was hanged at Binghamton, N. ,Y., for the murder of Katie Brodcholl in Elmira, Jan. 2, 1884. Mrs. Yseult Dudley, the English •woman who attempted to shoot O’Donovan Hossa, has been taken to the insane asylum at Middletown, N. Y. Mr. James Bussell Lowell has presented to Harvard College a valuable collection of books which he secured during his residence abroad. The new directory of Boston indicates that the population of that city is 520,00.1. Hanlan and Lee rowed three miles at Sylvia Lake, New York, for a purse of SI,OOO, Hanlan winning easily in 15:22.

A carriage containing P. J. Olander. his son and daughter and a hired man was Struck by a train at a crossing at Winthrop Junction, Mass., Olander, his son, and the hired man being killed, and Miss Olander fatally wounded.