Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1885 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. An advance of ten to twenty cents in the price of anthracite coal is announced by the Philadelphia and Heading Coal and Iron Company. In Lawrence, Mass., Henry R. Goodwin shot and killed Albert D. Swan, a prominent banker. The murderer asserts that iu matters atlecting the telephone business Swan had cheated him out of all his possessions. Goodwin telephoned for officers io come and arrest him. Ten thousand ex-soldiers and sailors of New York State have joined the G. A. H. since the death of General Grant. The membership of the order in the Empire State is now about 50,000. Hon. Edgar S. Cowan, who represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate from 1801 to 1867, died last week ut his home In Greonsburg, Pa. The foreign insurance companies are threatening to withdraw from New Hatnpshire on account of unfavorable State legislation. A sensation was caused in Wilkesbarre. Pa., by a report that Preller, tne supposed victim of the St. Louis murder by Maxwell had been seen there. Victimized depositors in the defunct German Savings Bank at Erie, Pa., have forced the stockholders of that Institution to sign a paper acknowledging their legal liability and agreeing to make a settlement. The recent explosion of the steamer 8. M. Felton at Philadelphia has been traced to the agency of a man named Adrianco Bpears, who carried a line of accident Insurance which would have yielded him $l5O per week if he had beeu seriously injured. Spears, however, was killed, and the payment of his life policies, which call for $35,000, will b;* resisted. The deceased is said to have bled the accident insurance companies handsomely during the last fifteen years.