Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1886 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. The Vermont Central Road is said to have secured a lease of the Ogdensburgh and Lake Champlain track. A statue of Daniel Webster was formally unveiled at Concord, New Hampshire. Senator Evarts, B. F. Butler, and Robert C. Winthrop delivered addresses. The packing-house of Sperry & Barnes, at New Haven, valued at $300,000, was destroyed by fire. The Trustees of Cornell University have decided to open a law school in September of next year, and the name of Judge Cooley is mentioned as its chief. The ten-mile bicycle race for the world’s championship, at Lynn, Mass., was won by John lb Frince in thirty minutes eight and three-fifths seconds, Neilson second, and Woodside third Workmen employed by Peter Herdic in digging a reservoir at Huntington, l’a., discovered an earthen pot filled with coin, believed to amount to several thousand dollars. The finder, the contractor, and the former owner of the land are preparing for a triangular suit over the treasure.