Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1886 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Reeord of the Week. EASTERN. The schooner Oregon capsized in Boston harbor, and four persons were drowned. A few minutes later the sloop Frolic sunk, and it is thought six of her crew were drowned. Mrs. Sarah J. Robinson was arrested at Boston, charged with poisoning her husband, her three children, and seven other people of her family. The insurance on their lives is srid to have been the actuating motive. A company has been formed in Brooklyn to construct a huge receptacle for corpses and prevent premature burials. Itev. Dr. G. C. Hollis, a Lutheran known throughout the country, died last week at Mount Vernon, N. Y. He was horn at Darmstadt in 1 b‘J4, and came io the Unite ! States in 1.851. A Boston surgeon opened the abdomen of a patient, drew up and cut open his stomach, took therefrom a set of teeth which bad !a : n there for a year, and sewed up the aperture with tine silk, the operation being completed in forty-five minutes. A New York paper prints an interesting exhibit of the brief but phenomenal career of Maurice B. Flynn, who is very aptly styled “Tire Modern Tweed.” It is as follows: Bern in Malden, Columbia County, Nov. 3, 1848; camu to New York in 1805; was worth then $35; employed as clerk in grocery at S 3 per week ; three weeks later at Novelty iron works at $5 per week ; one week later employed as book-keeper for Guy C. Hotchkiss ,v Hon at S 8 per week; made junior partner in I 860; made equal partner in 1870; graduated from Cooper Institute in 1871; was then worth $10,000; Assemblyman from Brooklyn in 1875-70; entered New York political life in 1877; began getting contracts irom Department of Public Works in 1878; made under Thompson’s regime, $100,00J; made under Squire's regime, $7u0,000; made. on new aqueduct contracts, $1,000,000; number of contracts now on hand, 500; will make out of these, $4,000,000; made from dredging harbor, $100,000; will make out of subway commission, *200,040. Is worth now $8,000,000. Indicted for conspiracy August 12. Will be tried September 7. Then Sing Sing, peril aps. A total of $40,396.50 has been subscribed for Mrs. General llanc >ck. New York dry goods merchants arc trying to get the railroads to reduce freight rate*. New York speculators claim that they are unable to borrow money at low rates of interest.