Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1885 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

Frederick Hausmeyer, liis wife, and six children, residing in Tarontum, Pa., are afflicted- with trichiniasis, having eaten of a salad of which raw pork formed the principal ingredient. One son, aged 20, has died, another is on the verge of dissolution, and the doctor says ho has no hopes of saving any member of the family. Two hundred masked men at Pine Run, Pa., assaulted and had a fight of two hours with a squad of non-union miners, ono of the latter being fatally injured. A national conference of operators and miners is to lie held iu Pittsburg next Monday, to consider tho equal nation of wages. The will of W. H. Vanderbilt gives to Ins widow the homestead and an annuity of $200,000. The eight children are to equally divide the sum of $40,000,000 in securities at par. Each daughter recoives tho houso in which she resides, and, in addition to these bequests, the son George receives $2,000,000. The charitable bequests amount to nearly one million dollars, and the balance of the estate is bequeathed to tho sons, Cornelius and William K Estimating the residuary estate at $90,000,000, and computing tho market value of the securities specified in the will, the eight children share the money and securities about as follows, the youngest daughter, Mrs. Webb, to receive her principal, $5,6.30,000, when slic shall be thirty years old:

Name. Absolutely. For Life. Total. Cornelius 552,651,000 $6,150,000 $58,800,000 William K 50,650,000 6,150,000 50.800,000 Frederick W... 5,650,000 6,150,000 11,800,000 George W 5,650,000 6,150,000 11,8)0,000 Mrs. Shepard.. 5,650,000 6,150,000 11,800,000 Mrs. 510an0.... 5,050,000 6,150,000 11,800,000 Mrs. Twombly. 5,650,000 6,150,000 i 1,800,000 Mrs. Webb.... 5,650,000 6,150,000 11,800,000 $182,400,000

David Lewis, the head of the Law and Order Society at St. Clair, Pa , charges the saloon-keepers with wrecking his store and residence by a dynamite bomb, the damago being ss,iioo or more. A Boston grand jury has indicted the

Rev. W. W. Downs and Mrs. Taber for adultery. Parson Down* preached to a large audience in Mechanics’ Hall, Boston, last Sunday, and at the conclusion of his remarks introduced the Hon. Marcus P. Norton, who stated that a syndicate of Boston lawyers had formed for the defense of Downs in his forthcoming trial for adultery, and that the active counsel for the defense would be the Hon. Roscoe Coukling and Gen. B. F. Butler. The Graut monument fund in New York has reached $10+,228.