Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1885 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. After the wedding feast of Harry S. Baltin, of Chicago, and Harriet R. Watson, at Honesdale, Pa., thirty of the guests were taken violently ill, with indications of poisoning. The physicians who attended the patients said that potted ham caused the trouble. At last reports no fatal results were anticipated. There are 100 eases of diphtheria and typhoid fever at Kittanning, Pa., and fifteen deaths from these diseases have occurred within ten days. In many instances whole families have, been stricken down. The attempt at Boston to cast a gun fiom 103 tons of metal was interrupted by a succession of explosions, caused by the breaking away of the clay around the core arbor; but later in the day the mold was filled. A week will be required to cool the casting. Report is made of a terrible orime committed at Siebertsville. Luzerne County, Pa. John and William Kester, two brothers, past middle age, were murdered in their home by tramps to whom the brothers refused to reveal where their money was concealed. Three men were killed and six cars were smashed by an accident on the Northern Railway at Andover Plains, New Hampshire. A collision occurred between three pasßenger-trains on the New York division of the Pennsylvania Rairoad, four miles west of Jersey City. Three Immigrants were killed and seven persons injured, some of whom, it is believed, will die. Ezra Cooper, the Pennsylvania millionaire, was found guilty of an assauit on a young lady and fined §I,OOO. He was tried for a greater offense, and now the court is after two of his witnesses for perjury. Small-pox has caused two deaths at Burlington, Vt., and there are said to be several patients in the pest-house or in sequestered dwellings. The disease was carried directly from Montreal in the clothing of a convalescent.