Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1886 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. Joseph Wilkins, formerly agent of the Michigan Central Road at Buffalo, has boon sentenced to five years in the Auburn penitentiary for embezzlement. At Mount Vernon, N Y., a laborer named Thomas Donohue was so firmly grasped by a mad dog that the aid of two mon was required to choke him into relaxing his hold For the last week the imports of merchandise at New York, exclusive of dry goods, were valued at nearly $0,500,000. A fire at Georgetown, Mass., burned thirteen business places and a residence, the losses aggregating SBO,OOO. Two men were killed by falling walls, and five others were injured Mahlon Hulrizer, who went to the war from a Jersey town twenty-one years ago, and has since been mourned as among the dead, returned to his parents on Christmas night. He owns large beds of nitrate in Pera. At the gate of General Grant’s tomb, on Christmas Day, the widow and her son Frederick placed a wreath of flowers. A white-haired veteran from Galena obtained permission to touch it with his lips, but a lady vainly offered the guard $lO for a single flower. Work at the Nanticoke, Pa., colliery, whore the recent accident occurred, burying nearly thirty men, has been abandoned. The company wilt recompense the relatives. The victims are doubtless buried deeply beneath sand, culm, and rock, and can never be found