Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1886 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Reeord of the Week. EASTERN. The late William H. Vanderbilt left p far largei- estate than was supposed. The graine of the property is now placed at $305,©OO,OOO. The police of New, York arrested 74,372 persons last year. The amount required to maintain municipal government in New York for the new year is estimated at $35,486,320. Boston’s yearly record shows a decided improvement in business, while $8,000,000 worth of building was done. It is proposed to introduce in St. Louis Pasteur’s method of treating hydrophobia. The Hydrophobic Institute in New York is ready for patients. Three wooden dwellings erected in Boston in the early part of the eighteenth century, from whose windows a party of British officers witnessed the battle of Bunker Hill, are being demolished to give place to gasworks. William H. McNeil, President of the Lancaster National Bank, at Clifton, Mass., disappeared last week, and ho has since been shown to be a defaulter for SIOO,OOO or more. He was also one of the receivers of a savings bank, which had $60,000 on hand. He is known to have invested largo amounts in cattle companies, and is believed to have speculated recklessly. The County Penitentiary at Albany, N. Y., is a plague-stricken spot Its l,too inmates aro exposed to a deadly form of typhus fever. A great many deaths have occurred The epidemic is said to have all the characteristics of the “black plague* which decimated London years ago. Frederick Fishel, cashier and confidential bookkeeper of August, Bornheim & Bauer, Now York clothing manufacturers, has been arrested charged with having robbed his employers by means of forged checks of upwards of $75,000.