Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1886 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. The strike of street-car employes at New York and Brooklyn was amicably arranged, and travel was resumed. The appearance of the cars on the streets, adorned with "brooms, flags, etc., was greeted with the wildest demonstrations of joy by crowds along the routes. Suit has been commenced in the United States Court, at New York, by Alexander Stewart, who claims to be an heir of the dead millionaire of the same name, to recover $200,000 from Judge Hilton, manager of the Stewart estate. The claimant has been adjudged insane by a Vermont court. Nearly two thousand persons assembled at Rhiuebec-k, Now York, to witness the killing of a famous fat hog and bet on his weight When dressed, he scored pounds. Jersey justice was promptly meted out to Samuel Johnson, alias “Mingo Jack,” a black ruffian who committed a fiendish assault upon Miss Angelina Herbert, a pretty girl of Eatontown, N. J. The victim was beaten with a club, outraged, and left by the roadside for dead; but the perpetrator was overtaken and lynched by a mob of infuriated citizens.