Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1886 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. Fourteen cases of small-pox have been reported to the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Board of Health the last ten days. The steamship Nevada has arrived at New York from Liverpool'with about 500 recruits for the Latter-Day Saints. In a flat at No. 192 West Tenth street, New York, John Warner killed his sou, 14 years old, as he lay sleeping, and then blew out his own brains. Ex-Alderman Waite, the -witness against the “boodle” Aldermen of New York, has been committed to the house of detention at his own request, to protect him from persons who have been following him in order to get information. Natural gas is now used so extensively in Pittsburg that during the la->t year the consumption of coal has decreased 47,450,000 bushels. Captain Samuel Packard, a veteran of the war of 1812, died at Malden, Mass., aged 100 years 5 months. Charles Marsh, junior partner in the dry-goods house of Jordan, Marsh & Co., Boston, died last week, agod 50. Ho leaves an estate estimated to be worth $10,000,003, and carried $250,000 insurance on his life. Henry K. Brown, the sculpter, died at Newburg, N Y., aged 72 years. Ho modeled the first bronze ever cast in this country. C. D. Graham, a native of Philadelphia, 33 years of age, succeeded in making the descent of Niagara Falls, and passing through tho celebrated whirlpool on Sunday last. He was imprisoned iu a cask and sent over the falls. The cask struck a strong current and passed over the falls and through the whirlpool in which Capt. Webb lost liis life, and Graham was released five miles below, unhurt, save a few bruises.