Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1886 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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John L. Sullivan, the pugilist, offers to fight Charley Mitchell every day for a week, and in case of defeat will forfeit many thousand dollars to benevolent and other institutions. Valises containing about $65,000 in bank hills and securities stolen from the Lancaster, Mass., National Bank have been found at Timnoutli, Yt. Veo, the Treasurer of the Rutland, Vt, Marble Company, confessed that lie helped MfjNeal, the absconding cashier of the Lancaster bank, to carry off the funds. Dr. E. M. Nelson, President of tho marble company, has been arrested on suspicion of complicity in the matter Pittsburgh has completed a crematory on Sixth avenue, to bo operated by natural gas. The Supreme Court of Massachusetts lias decided that tho authorities of Boston havo tho right to prohibit preaching on the Common. Nahum Capen, LL. D., died in Boston. He was Postmaster of that city under President Buchanan, and began tho freo delivery of letters. A railway collision at Wilmington, Del., wrecked a passenger train and caused the death of an engineer, fireman and brakeman. The penitentiaries of New York, two of which are being worked on State account, show a profit for tho year of $3,441. All but 10 per cent, of tho shoes made at Auburn are sold in tho Western States.