Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1886 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Coneise Record of the Week. EASTERN. The will of the millionaire Tracy, of Buffalo, husband of Agnes Ethel, the actress, is being contested by a daughter of his first -wife, who was bequeathed but SIOO,OOO. Herr Most, the anarchist, was brought to court at New York handcuffed to a thief. His associates, Schenck and Braunschweig, were with him. The court-room was crowded Most looked very savage, and scowled viciously at every person his eyes fell upon. After listening to the testimony of witnesses, Most, at the request of his counsel, was permitted to say a word in his defense. “1 cannot speak very well English,” said he. “You have heard a great deal about me; I suppose that you expected a great deal of witnesses for the prosecution and a lot of black devil lies about me. But what has come off? I have seen prosecuting officers in Austria and Germany going against me and my associates, but they were slaves of the kings and princes. I didn’t expect that here. This is the first step to bring the republic down to a monarchy. The next will be stopping the freedom of the press. Then'we will only want an emperor.” After arguments by counsel and the charge by the Recorder the jury retired, and after seventy minutes returned with a verdict of guilty for all three of the prisoners, but recommending Schenck to the mercy of the court.

John H. Deane, of New York City, for years counsel for the American Baptist Missionary Union, is represented to be $150,000 short in his accounts with that society. Andrew Carnegie, the steel manufacturer, has given to Allegheny City $250,000 for the erection of a free library and music hall The Eev. T. C. Jerome, pastor of the Congregational Church at Wolfboro, N. H., his two sons and daughter, and a young man named Davis went on a fishing excursion in Lake Wnmipisiogee; their boat was overturned and the whole party was drowned