Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1885 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. eastern; Trains on the New York elevated roads are to be run by electricity. A trial trip has been made on the Ninth avenue line with an electric motor, the experiment proving a complete success. An entire square at Albany, N. Y, mostly occupied by frame structures, was burned, thirty families being rendered homeless. The loss is in excess of $50,000. Nicholas Webber’s large morocco factory at Lynn, Mass., was burned, entailing a loss of SIIO,OOO. The body of Mrs. Emma Markley, who weighed 550 pounds, was carried to the grave at Philadelphia by twelve strong men. ’ Thomas Brown, a Chicago paperdealer, met with a terrible death at Putney, Vt., fating into a large revolving waterwheel he was inspecting, and being so seriously injured that he livel but a short time after he was taken out. It is explained that the steamer Hanoverian was just ten miles out of her reckoning when sbtf was wrecked on the shores of Newfoundland, which was the exact difference between safety and the destruction of the vessel. A wild man has been captured in the woods near Wllkesbarre, Pa. It is rumored that the dry goods firm of Jordan, Marsh & Co., Boston, has been the victim of a heavy The firm finds that it has been culled on to pay bills amounting to $247,000 for goods which it never bought. Major Aaron Stafford, the last surviving officer of the war of 1832, died at his residence in Waterville, Oneida County, N. Y., in the 99th year of his age, having retained his mental faculties to the last. Forty thousand persons visited Gen. Grants tomb last Sunday. Subscriptions to the Grant monument fund in New York have dropped to an average of about $230 a day, and the hopelessness of raising by popular subscription the amount originally intended is now admitted, even by the committee having the enterprise in charge. It is said that not ten per cent, of the committee have yet even visited the rooms.