Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1886 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

Owing to the strike, it is reported that the coke supply will not last over ten days, and as a result employes of mills and furnaces throughout the country will be rendered idle. A number of imported laborers who were brought to Standard, l’u., refused to go to work, having been dissuaded from entering the mines by the striking Hungarians. A gas well three miles southwest of Buffalo discharges 144,000 feet daily. A sentence of five years’ imprisonment lias been passed upon John McMahon, the ex-Colloctor of Revenue at Hoboken, New Jersey, who absconded two years ago with ssl, 000. The fishing schooner Maud M. Stovoy, of Gloucester, Mass., has been given up for lost. She carried a crew of fourteen men. J. Q. A. Ward, the sculptor, has completed the model for a soldiers’ monument in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. The shaft will he eighty feet high, and will cost $300,000 or more. Mrs. Marie Branchu, wife of a wellknown decorative painter in New York, committed suicide in a sensational manner, jumping from High Bridgo 120 feot below. Every bone in her body was broken.