Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1885 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. - - ■■ EASTERN, Vice Chancellor George W. Clinton, son of Dewitt Clinton, died suddenly in a cemetery near Albany. ’ He was 78 years old, and a man of marked literary and scientific attainments. The National Retail Druggists’Association convened in annual session at Pittsburgh. with a small attendance. The President reported slow progress the past year, many of the members failing to pay their dues. The Hon. Edward A. Rollins, President of the Centennial Bank of Philadelphia, and formerly Commissioner of Internal Revenue, died at Hanover, N. H. Increased activity is reported in the Iron and steel trade at Pittsburgh. Orders are coming in freely, and prices generally are advancing. Sebastian Boughner, who fought at Lundy’s Lane and at the capture of Fort Erie, died at Sunbury, Pa., aged 90. A rock which had fallen upon the track overturned the locomotive, baggage, and smoking cars of the Montreal Express near Whitehall, N. ¥., the engineer being killed instantly, and five others severely injured. Christian Cooper of the Town of Livingston, Columbia County, New York, died last week aged 111 years, 10 months and 15 days. Mr. Anthony M. Keiley was for the thirteenth time elected and installed as President of the Catholic Union at New York. The next convention of the association will be held at Lancaster, Pa. The inventory and'schedules of Martin & Co., who failed recently at Buffalo, N. V., show that the assets are worth about $9,000, while the liabilities are over $260,000' The city of Concord,Mass..celebrated its 250th anniversary. Speeches were made by James Russell Lowell, W. M. Evarts, and George William Curtis. Twenty-five national banks in New York have begun suits against the city to resist taxation, on the ground that their stock is not legally Hable for taxes. Three members of the “Dry-Goods Clerks’ Equality Association," of New York, have been arrested for causing a dynamite explosion in the store of Garry Brothers, in that city, on Feb. I last.