Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1886 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. Rev. James C. Beecher, of Connecticut, the youngest brother of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, killed himself at the water-cure at Elmira, N. Y.., on account of failing health. He was about 59 years of ago. During the war he was a chaplain, a Colonel, and a brevet Brigadier General Senator William M. Evarts narrowly escaped being killed, at Windsor, Vt He was driving with Charles C. Perkins, a well-known resident of Boston, and Miss Jennie Matthews, daughter of Judge Stanley Matthews, of Cincinnati, when the horses took fright, the carriage was upset, and Mr. Perkins was instantly killed Mr. Evarts escaped with a serious scalp-wound, and Miss Matthews with some severe bruises. A carbuncle caused the death of Jeremiah P. Bobinson of New York, whose wealth is estimated as high as $15,009,000. Governor Hill having approved the order of Mayor Gracu removing llollin M. Squire from the office of Commissioner of Public Works of New York City, the Mayor has appointed Maj. Gen. John 8. Newton, of the United States army, to the position. Gen. Newton is known chiefly for the success of his plans for the removal of the Hell Gate obstructions. M. Champallion, of Paris, the son-in-law of Austin Corbin, killed himself with a revolver on the Corbin farm, near Neport, New Hampshire. Slight shocks of earthquake visited points in North and South Carolina and Georgia.