Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1886 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. A dispatch from New Haven, Ct., states that as Colonel Stocking and Mi - . Silas Sage were crossing the Connecticut Elver in a small row-boat they struck something in the water. The next instant the boat was lifted several feet into the air and .the two men were sent sprawling to the bottom of the boat They heard a great noise in the water, and as soon as possible picked themselves up and looked around. Just north of them they saw an unmistakable marine reptile fully one hundred feet long, with its head at least ten feet out of the water. It was lashing the water into froth within twenty feet of the boat. The men, although terribly frightened, recovered their oars and pulled desperately for the shore, shouting for help. By this time the monster had disappeared, but presently its head was seen emerging from the water until at least fifteen feet of the reptile was plainly visible to all It was passing rapidly up the river, and finally disappeared round the bend at Gildersleeve. A great rush of Americana returning from Europe is reported from New York. The litigation pending for the last six years between Jacob Reese of Pittsburg, the inventor of the basic steel process, and the Bessemer Steel Company has been decided in favor of Mr. Reese, and the Bessemer Company is ordered to pav the costs. Dewdrop, the famous $29,500 Dwyer filly, died in the Dwyer stables at Sheepshead Bay. She died, it is supposed, from internal an juries. The Mayflower takes the international cup by beating the Galatea by thirty-four minutes. S’te had but eleven minutes to spare within fhi aeven-bour limit that declares a race oft.