Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1885 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. Henry Dickerson, of Moravia, N. Y., shot and killed his wife and then shot himself. Jealousy was the cause. Dickerson can not live. Tlie works, warehouse, and offices (except the hinge department) of the Pittsburgh Hinge and Chain Factory at Beaver Falls, Pa., were burned, rendering 400 persons idle and causing a loss of 835,000. John Howell, a farmer residing near Starrucca, Wayne County, Pa., shot four of his children, ranging in ago from 3 to 11 years, and then shot himself. His wife and eldest daughter wero absent at the time of the tragody. Mrs. Fennell, of Trumbull, Conn., was last spring bitten by a dog. On the street in Bridgeport, the other night, she was attacked by hydrophobia with such violence that it required five policemen to remove her to the station house. Ono of the oflicors received a severe bite on the arm.

In a single-scull race at Albany, for a purse of SI,OOO a side, John H. Teemer defeated Edward Hanlan by three lengths. Spectators from Pittsburgh wero heavy winners. The ox-champion of the world acknowledged that he had been fairly beaten by a better man. John Howell, at Starucca, Pa., confessed to killing his four children. He gave them arsenic, then shot them, and sat in wait for his wife and sister, whom ho also intended to kill. He finally shot himself, and upon regaining conscioumcss made the horriblo recital. The business of the New York Stock Exchange during the week was the heaviest known for many years, the sales being 3,690,680 shares. There was a nail famine at Pittsburg, the result of the long strike. Other markets had to be drawn upon. Twenty-five children were poisoned at the Home of the Friendless, in Allegheny City, Pa., from drinking milk. They all recovered after prompt treatment.