Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1885 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. Seven persons are known to have been killed and about one hundred wounded by the tornado at Philadelphia and Camden, and the total loss is estimated at 5500,000. The assessed valuation of real and personal property in Boston for 1185 is 5685,404,600, a gain of 52,748,000 over last year. The tax levy is 512.80 per thousand, as aeainst sl7 in 1884. Pleuro-pneumonia is reported in a herd of sixty thoroughbred Holstein cattle on Staten Island, N. Y. The Government Commissioner will take measures to quarantine the herd. A slight fire, caused by an explosion of gasoline, occurred in a provision store in Germantown, Pa. Four persons were burned by the exploding oil, and three of them have since died. The fourth can scarcely recover. Fire destroyed the Webster Block, at Manchester, N. H., seven of the inmates perishing in the flames. When the body of one of the victims, an infant, was recovered, the mother, Mrs. Annie 6’Brien, became violently insane. The loss was 550,000.