Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1886 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Coneise Record of the Week. EASTERN. Over 200,000 persons participated in the celebration at Providence, It L, of the city’s 250th anniversary. The feature was a mammoth procession, in which lihode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York military commands look part. Rev. Dr. Reilly, of Detroit, treasurer of the Irish National League of America, last week remitted £12,000 to the treasurer of the parliamentary fund in London The sum of $5,000 has been pledged by the Ancient Order of Hibernians in Chicago. General Slialer has been removed from the office of President of the Health De partment of New York, for malfeasance in office. A Providence, R. L, dispatch reports a distressing accident, by which six lives were sacrificed. E. G. Farmer, his wife, Mary E., and daughter, Mamie, aged six; Mr. C. W. Girsch, wife, and two children, both men being members of the firm of Farmer, Girsch & Co , engravers and printers; also William G. Brayton, their traveling Salesman, and his wife, went for a sail down the bay in the sailboat Wanderer. They reached Bristol safely, and, after a short stop, started toward Prudence Island. The wind was blowing strong, and Mr. Brayton, who was sailing the boat, was unable to manage the craft. When entering Potter’s Cove the boat capsized, and six of the party were drowned. The four children were in the cabin, and were not again seen alive. The New York Central Road has recently invested $700,000 in new sleeping cars with which to equip a Boston and Chicago train, making the distance in twenty-seven hours, with only twelve stops. The intercollegiate boat race between the Columbia and Harvard crews, four miles straight away, was won by Columbia; time, Harvard time, Columbia led throughout