Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1885 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Coneise Record of the Week. EASTERN. Three hundred employes of the Union Stove Works, at Peekskill, N. Y., have struck for an Increase in wages. Richard Howell broke the mile record for safety bicycles at Springfield, Mass., doing the mile in 2:43, and lowering the record 5 3-5 seconds. Robert Pierce, a Boston manufacturer of feit goods, failed. He had indorsed for the Wiliowdale Company, which recently suspended, for 8500,000. The Insurance Commissioner of Connecticut has ntade an application for a receiver for the Charter Oak Life Insurance Company. A receiver was appointed for the Howe Sewing Machine Company on the application of the principal stockholders. The secured debts amount to 8000,000 and the unsecured to 8150,000, of which $3C,000 is for the pay of employes. The nominal assets are 81,110,000.

The United States Circuit Court of New York denied the application of James A. Hinckley for a writ of quo warranto against the National Civil Servlco Commissioners. The motion was an attempt to abolish the commission on the ground that it was unconstitutional.

James E. Wilson’s blind factory, in Forty-second street. New York, was destroyed by fire, involving a loss of SOO,OOO, with partial insurance. A fire broke out in Schlelpmann & Spotter's brewery at Fair Haven, Connecticut, and the building was totally destroyed. The loss is $80,000; partly insured.