Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1886 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. A man giving the name of James Hull was arrested at Philadelphia while attempting to pawn gome articles of underclothing. He proves to be Janies J. Mason, who is wanted in New Orleans to answer the charge of embezzling over $30,000, and he will bo held for extradition. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company has finally obtained an entrance into New York City. Edward C. Z. Judson, better known as “Ned Buntlino,” died of heart disease at Stamford, New York, last week, aged 04. Ho was born in Philadelphia. His father, who was a lawyer, tried to make a lawyer of the son, hut at 11 years of age ho ran away after receiving a flogging and shipped as cabin-boy in a vessel that sailed around the Horn. The next yoar he entered the navy as an apprentice on hoard a man-of-war, and a yoar later, when 13 years old, was cimniissioned a midshipman by President Van Buren for meritorious conduct in rescuing the crew of a boat run down by a Fulton ferryboat on East Itiver. Young Judson was assigned to the Levant Other midshipmen refused to moss with liim hecauso lie had been a common sailor before the mast, and • while on the way to join the gulf squadron he fought four of them, one after another, in Florida, New Orleans, and Havana, escaping without a scratch himself, hut marking four of his antagonists for life. From that time on he had the reputation of being one of the best shots in the United States. During the relie lion he served as a chief of scouts, and lias since then borne the title of Colonel. Judson was widely known as a writer of wild tales of adventure.' HD first story, “The Captain’s Pig’” was published in the Knickerbocker Magazine under the pßeudonvm of “Ned Buntline” in 1838, when he was in his 15th year. This sketch brought notoriety to the young writer and fighter, who subsequently received as high as $150,000 a year for the product of his brain and pen. For many years liis annual income from storywriting was $20,000. Ho once earned $12,000 in six weeks, and at another time, uuder pressure, wrote a book of CIO pages in sixty-two hours, scarcely sleeping or eating during that time. He did not know exactly liow; many stories he had written, but estimated them at between 300 and 400, each long enough for a book. Samuel K. Gay, chief clerk of the Pittsburgh Pension Office, lias probably gone to Canada, taking $15,000 or $20,000 with him. The loss by fire in the terra-cotta works at Ravenswood, L. L, amounts to SOO,000, and nearly two hundred men will be thrown out of employment.