Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1885 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. • EASTERN. The fall of a horse on the J erome Park track, New York, caused three others, with their jockeys, to tumble over her. The horse Brookwood was killed and a rider named Potter fatally injured. In the Grand Street Museum at Brooklyn, the elephant, which had on previous occasions evinced a great dislike for the lion, burst his shackles and made an onset on the lion’s cage. The latter beast seized the elephant’s trunk and a fierce fight resulted, the elephant being finally got under control by the keepers, but not until he had smashed both tusks and suffered lacerations of the head. One of the lion’s legs is broken, and Keeper Goodwin is confined to his bed from bruises which he received during the conflict. About $4,000 was realized at the sale of the theatrical effects of John McCullough in New York. The crown worn by Macready was purchased for Mary Anderson. The exclusive right to “The Gladiator” $1,500. A dagger presented by Salvini sold for sls. By the explosion of a steam drum on Twenty-sixth street in New York a number of girls employed in the place were horribly scalded. The accident resulted from repairs made being of a temporary nature. The street-car men of Pittsburgh propose to form a protective association, and, after organization, to demand an increase in wages or a decrease in working hours.’ The iron trade at Pittsburgh js reported as looking up. Large orders for all kinds of products are being placed ip anticipation of an advance in prices for spring delivery. A coal train on the Philadelphia and Heading Railroad crashed into a freight train Which was standing on the bridge across White Deer Creek. The engine and thirteen cars were hurled into the creek below, a distance of thirty feet. The engineer and fireman went over with the engine, but were Uninjured. Ferdinand Ward was sentenced in New York to ten years’ imprisonment on the charge of larceny, of Which he was lately convicted. Ward showed no feeling when sentence was pronounced, though the Judge was especially grave and severe in his reference to the prisoner’s criminal exploits. Ward was taken at once to Sing Sing.