Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1886 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. The remains of General Hancock ■were on Saturday, the 13th inst, escorted by regular troops to Trinity Church, New York, where funeral services were conducted by Rev. Morgan Dix. A special train conveyed the cortege to Norristown, Pennsylvania, and the casket was placed in the vault Mrs. Hancock has received telegrams of condolence from Samuel J. Tilden, the Governors of various States, and numerous military officers of high rank. The Mahone report, showing the sums appropriated for and expended on public buildings from March 4, 1789,'t0 March 4, 1885, —assay offices, mints, and buildings in the District of Columbia being excluded, —gives the following figures of the amounts actually expended in the States named: New Y0rk....§15.339, 085 Indianasßss,o7o Pennsylvania 8,702,074 Minnesota 640,336 Massachusetts 8,357,11 (Nebraska 028,340 Illinois 7,784,581,10wa 606,658 Ohio 7,387,630 Wisconsin 001,723 Michigan 894,027| Many citizens of Elmira, New York, held a meeting and formally resolved to destroy with dynamite a sewer constructed through their lands by the State to drain the reformatory grounds. The board of health at once dug up a portion of the conduit and filled it with brick and cement Laura Don, well known as an actress, died near Troy, N. Y. Heavy rains and a general thaw caused disastrous floods in the East Charles Herman, who murdered his wife Nov. 1 last, and slept in the bed where the gory corpse lay for three nights, was hanged at Buffalo last Friday. The damage in Boston and vicinity by the recent flood is estimated at $1,000,000. The police boats supplied food and fuel to families driven from their houses. Tremont street was entirely under water from the car stables at Lenox street to a point above Cabot street Considerable damage was done in the vicinity of Baltimore and Washington by a rise in the Potomac and Susquehanna rivers. All over the country high water and serious damage by flooding are reported. Thomas A. Edison and others have incorporated a company at Albany to introduce his device for telegraphing to and from moving trains. Gen. Hancock was buried at Norristown, Pa., with military honors. He was interred by the side of his father and his loved daughter. The funeral was unostentatious, but an impressive service was held in Trinity Church, New York. The pall-bearers were the Hon. Thomas F. Bayard, Secretary of State; Gen. William T. Sherman, Lieut. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, Maj. Gen. J. M. Schofield, Gen. W. B. Franklin, Gen. W. F. Smith, Brig. Gen. James B. Fry, Brig. Gen. A. H. Terry, Brig. Gen. N. A. Miles, Brig. Gen. John Newton, Brig. Gen. O. B. Wilcox, Gen. Francis Walker, Mr. J. W. Hartshorn, Col. W. P. Wilson, and Maj. D. W. Miller.