Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1886 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. The funeral of Jacob Bixby was held at Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania. He weighed over five Hundred pounds, and the services of twelve strong men were necessary to carry his coffin. At the grave a female relative fell dead. Simon Cameron, the veteran Pennsylvania politician, has entered on his 88th year. The tug John Martin exploded in Boston harbor, the craft being blown to pieces and the crew of five men instantly killed The Dime Savings Bank of New Brunswick, N. J., has collapsed The Treasurer is said to be SBO,OOO short in his accounts. An aged inmate of the almshouse near Lebanon, Pennsylvania, threw paris green into a huge kettle of coffee, by which one hundred persons were poisoned, ten or more of them fatally. An unknown man of middle age walked into Niagara River, about a quarter of a mile above the Horseshoe Falls, and was swept away. Fire Chief Francis Mahady, of New York, was killed while on his way to a fire. An engine ran into his buggy and he was thrown from his seat and crushed by the wheels of the heavy machine. It has been definitely learned that T. G. Dennett, of New York, who recently slipped down the ice-mound at Niagara Falls, received but little injury in falling, but starved to death where he fell, being unable to get out. The imports of general merchandise at the port of New York for the past week were valued at $5,984,798, and of dry goods at $2,912,464. In a desperate fight of thirteen rounds, at Rye, N. Y., Jack Dempsey defeated George La Blanche.

Zelno P. Gordon, the oldest telegraph operator in the United States, died at Castle, N. Y.