Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1885 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. The New Jersey census has been completed, and shows that the total population of the ' Stato is 1,276,825. The net increase since 1880 is 142,709. Three counties in the State show a decrease—Huntordon, 1,150; Morris, 447; Sussex, 1,138. llevisod census returns show the population of Altany, N. Y., to be 90,334 At Utica, N. Y., a large number of corsets, smuggled from Canada, have been confiscated by revenue officials. The smuggling operations have been carried on for some time in an ingenious manner through the agency of women. The Hon. D. J. Morrell, ex-Presi-dent of the American Iron and Steel Association, died at Johnstown, I’a. The sailor found suffering from yellow fever in Battery Park, -New Vork, has sinco. died. No luars are ontertained that the disease will become epidemic in New York. Courtney and Conley defeated Hosmer und Gaudaur in a double-scull race on the Hudson, between Troy und Albany. The distance was three miles with a turn, and the time 17:57hi. The winners havo been challenged by Hunlan and Lee to a three mile-race for $1,600 a side and the double-scull championship of the world. A freight train on the New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio Kailroad was wrecked noar Moadville, Pa. Seventeen cars were wrecked, Jack Berry, a brakeman, killed, and other train hands seriously injured. Franz Josef Petmekey, a Prussian, was banged at Auburn, N. Y., for the murder of Mrs. Pauline Froitzheim, June 1, 1883. Mrs. Grant will be joined at New Ycrlc in the autumn by her family, with the exception of Mrs. Sartoris, who will return to England to remain. Twenty-five thousand people witnessed the rowing match between Hanlan and Leo at ltockaway Beach, the former winning by a length and a half. The afTuir was regarded as something of a “hippodrome.” The second of the series between the j uchts Puritan and Priscilla was won by the latter.