Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1886 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. In a cigar factory in New York where a strike is in progress there were found three dynamite cartridges and a bottle of giant powder. The proceedings of the American Agricultural Association at New York were made interesting by a paper by 8. Sato, of Japan, which country has a farming population of fifteen millions, showing the improvement made in agriculture. John B. Gough, the noted temperance agitator, died in Philadelphia on the 18th of February. He was born in England in 1822. James H. Paine, a miser who died recently in New York, was a grandson of a signer of the Declaration of Independence. While he was largely interested in the Chicago Land Company, and ranked among his relatives as a millionaire, only S3OO was found among the rags in which he expired. The effect of a decision of the New Jersey Supreme Court declaring the railroad tax law unconstitutional has been to practically bankrupt the State Treasury. There is not enough money on hand to meet the ordinary expenses, and the State Comptroller has shut down on all demands, refusing to sign warrants of any description. Even members of the Legislature are not permitted to draw their pay. While attempting to cross the Susquehanna River in a row-boat, four young men were drowned at Harrisburg, Pa.