Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1886 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. A body was incinerated at Pittsburg by the aid of natural gas, tho remains being educed to ashes in less than an hour Laura A. Miller, aged 19, hanged herself in her parents’ house, at Buffalo, N. Y., because she had been forbidden to attend a roller rink where she used to clandestinely meet her lover. The suit brought in New York against William S. Warner, by an official inthe interest of the creditors of Ferdinand Ward, resulted in a decision by the referee that Warner must pay over to Receiver Davies, within thirty days, the sum of $1,395,752 54. Miss Abigail Bates has just died at Scituate, Mass., aged 89. In 1812, in company with another girl, she played a fife and drum so vigorously that tho’British left Scituate harbor under the impression that a large American force was at hand. The will of Senator Chaffee, made before the Grant & Ward failure has been found. It gives $500,000 to Mrs. U. S. Grant, Jr., and $300,000 to other relatives. One stroke of lightning at Waterton, Conn., demolished a house and instantly killed Sarah and Eliza McGaffey. Louise Blackman, a school-teacher, of Ocean County, New Jersey, whipped with a birch rod a politician and cranberry raiser by the name of Emson, whom she charged with slandering she.