Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1885 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. Mary Glanfert, a dwarf forty inches in height, once one of Barnum's curiosities, was found dead in a house on Long Island. Suspicion is entertained of foul play in the case. Subscriptions to the Grant monument fund in Ne-w York have been received from Paris, Amsterdam, and Hamburg. The total amount subscribed to the fund to date is something over $94,000. JohnMCcullough, the tragedian, died at Philadelphia from paralysis in the muscles of the neck. Up to within forty-eight hours of his demise he was thought to be rapidly recovering. His wife and sister were at his side when he breathed his last. He was bom in Londonderry, Leland, about fifty years ago, and when a mere lad wheeled coal for a gas-works in Philadelphia. The wardrobe and properties of Edwin Forrest were presented to him as a worthy successor. His last appearance on the stage was at McVicker’s Theater, Chicago, in September of last year. His remains have been placedin a vault at Cedar Hill Cemetery. An estate valued at $40,000 is left to the widow and two sons. Two men were rowing in a boat above Niagara Falls last Sunday, when they were drawn into the rapids, swept over the falls, and drowned. Prof. Shaler, of Harvard College, in a report on mining in New England, declares that the abandoned Ely mine in Vermont paid out $2,(XX),000 in dividends. The proprietor of a mine at Lisbon, N. H., ground up his quartz, and sold it as a fertilizer, and the following year peddled it out as an exterminator of potato bugs.