Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1885 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. A landslide occurred on what is known as Cherry Mountain in New Hampshire. At Owl’s Head a strip of forest two miles long and some rods in width was swept to the base of the mountain. No lives were lost, though one man was seriously injured. Advices from Mount McGregor, N. Y., are to the effect that General Grant’s condition is not improving. He sleeps reasonably well, but appears to be growing steadily weaker. Statements published in Chicago and elsewhere that Mrs. Grant and Mark Twain are sharers in the proceeds of a bust of the General, Karl Gerhardt being the sculptor, are false, and have caused pain to the General's family. Petroleum has been “struck” in Saratoga County, New York, at a depth of 100 feet, the flow irom the well being copious. Jesse R. Grant has octained a judgment for 5121,472 against the firm of Grant & Ward. Dr. Douglas, Gen. Grant’s physician, is worn out, and last week sent for Dr. Shrady to relieve him. While the cashier of the Fourth National Hank of Pittsburgh was at lunch, a young man invited the clerk in charge to the door to “see a gentleman.” The clerk returned to his post to find tho cash SB,tOJ short and the young man missing. There is no trace of the thieves. A fire which broke out in Burch’s stables at Albany, N. Y., spread to James A. Gray s piano factory, both structures and their contents being entirely destroyed, and twenty-three horses perishing in tho stables. Four firemen were buried under lading walls, two being killed and two fatally injured. The financial loss is between §75,060 and §IOO,OOO. Two men and twenty-one horses lost their lives in a fire at llelfast. Me., which destroyed tho Amoriean House, a livery-stable, and other property, the whole valued at §50,000.