Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1886 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. The village of East Lee, 31 ass., wa» inundated by the giving away of a dam at Mountain Lake. Eleven person 3 were drowned, and several factories were wrecked, including two paper-mills. The explosion of a lamp caused a fire which destroyed the Merchant Mill, valued at $159,000, at Harrisburg, Pa.- The insurance aggregates $40,000. The rifle and sewing machine firm of E. Itemiqgton <t Sons, at Ilion, N. Y., has placed its affairs in the bauds of receivers. The new business building at New York, erected on the site of the old Theater Cotnique, was partially gutted by fire, several firms losing large amounts. The police estimate the total loss at SIOO,OOO, but others plae ■ it as high as $750,000. The Grant monument fund in New York now aggregates 5120,648. Near Garland, Warren County, Pa., it is claimed that gold has been found in paying quantities. The stove foundry of Sherman S. Bogers & Co., Buffalo, N. Y., employing 500 men, has shut down because of labor agitations. By the burning of a railroad board-ing-house near the famous Kinzua viaduct, in Pennsylvania, six Italian laborers lost their lives and two others were seriously scorched. The suit of, Janeway & Co., ol New Brunswick, N. J., against the Pennsylvania Bailroad for $200,000 damages resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff for $179,806 for loss of both property and trade. The suit was a result of the collision at New Brunswick of an oil and a freight train. The oil ignited and set fire to Janeway’s paper factory, which was burned to the ground.