Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1885 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. James Horace Jones, a wifemurderer, was executed at Troy, N. Y. He made the following will: “I give and bequeath to Rev. Peter Haverraans, my spiritual adviser, my body. I hope and trust he will see it burled decently and protected from mutilation. I also give and bequeath my heart to Rome and my soul to heaven. I appoint Father Havermans executor Of my will.” Jones walked to the scaffold with a steady step and was wonderfully cool while the final preparations for his execution were being made. He refused to say anything, and appeared anxious that there should be no delay. John Roach’s schedule, filed in New York, shows liabilities of $2,222,877.81, while the nominal assets are $5,108,098.87, and the actual assets $1,481,478.23.

A gray-haired woman of sixty, who was once a reigning belle in Philadelphia, has just been released frqm an insane asylum in that city, where she had been incarcerated for twenty-seven years as “extravagant” and “eccentric.” She is in full possession of her faculties, and, it is claimed, has never been otherwise.

A young man • known as Charles Hyelm, who has been a waiter in a Pittsburgh restaurant for two years past, proves to be the son of a wealthy {Swedish nobleman, who left his home on account of excesses while at college. Having received a liberal remittance and been promised parental forgiveness, Hyelm has resigned his place as waiter and will rejoin his family in Sweden.

Defective drainage has caused an epidemic ot typhoid fever at the Morris Plains Insane Asylum, New Jersey. In a race between bicyclists and a team of horses near Erie, P., the horses became frightened and ran away, throwing the driver and killing him instantly. It is reported that the Anthracite Coal Companies have determined to reduce the output of the mines to the extent of 800,000 tons during September,' and contempate an advance in prices October 1. Jasper W. Umberfield, a New York boy of seventeen, committed suicide at the cottage of a relative in Port Chester, after shooting and dangerously wounding J. M. Carpenter, a cousin, of about the same age. The tragedy is attributed to an unbalanced mind, the result of ovorstudy. The Attorney General of Pennsylvania proposes, it is said, to take official action to prevent consummation of a bargain between Mr. Vanderbilt and the Pennsylvania Bailroad Company by which a consolidation of certain lines is proposed.