Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1885 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. A decree ordering the sale of the West Shore Hoad for not less that than $:.’2,000,000 was entered at Newt urgh, X. V., by Judge Brown. Abram 8. Cassidy was appointed referee for the sale of the property. Ex-Governor Moses, of South Carolina, was sentenced to three years in the Massachusetts Penitentiary for obtaining money under talse pretenses. The firm of Wm. Heath it Co., prominent New York brokers, has made an asBignment. The collapse is said to have resulted chiefly from the failure of Mr. Henry Smith, a heavy b»ar operator, to makegood his m rgins with the firm. Mr. Smith Has also made an assignment. Pittsburgh dispatch : “A battery of boilers m Clarke’s tolar.lron Works, at the corner of £ mailman and Thirty-sixth streets, expioled with fearful force, seventeen men being scalded, four of them fatally. The day force had just come on, the night turn having been relieved, when the explosion occurred. The mud-drum of the boilers giving way was the cause of the accident. The injured men were both burned and scalded, while some of them were injured, in addition, by flying pieces of iron and bricks. The large number of boys among the injured is accounted for from the fact that they were the hoopiron handlers, who work irtir the boilers, where the iron Is rolled.” The late census gives Massachusetts a population of 1,011,405, an inereaso of 158,380 since 1880. Boston is given 593,400 inhabitants, against 362,536 live years ago. Seven veterans who were discharged from tho Brooklyn Navy-Yard last spring on account of the depletion of the appropriation . have been reinstated under tho civil-service rule.