Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1886 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. On the Nickel-Plate Road, at Silver Creek, N. Y., an excursion train from Erie collided with a freight train from Buffalo. Twelve persons were killed and fourteen injured. Fifty-three liquor-dealers have been indicted at Providence, R. L, for maintaining liquor nuisances. Fires in Market and Front streets, Philadelphia, caused losses estimated at SI6J,000, with heavy insurance. A number of firemen narrowly escaped being buried under falling walls. The Governors of seven of the original thirteen States gathered at Philadelphia to arrange for a fitting celebration next year of the centennial anniversary of the promulgation of the Federal Constitution. It is proposed to have every State in the Union send a regiment of militia. The New York Chamber of Commerce has raised $70,480 lor the Charleston sufferers. Asher B. Durand, the oldest American painter of note, died at South Orange, N. J. He was born in 1700. The nephews of the late S. J. Tilden have commenced a contest of the clause in the will of the deceased which gave a trust fund to Now York City. John L. Sullivan met Frank Hearld, of Philadelphia, with hard gloves at Pittsburgh. A hot battle was stopped by the police, in the second round, with Sullivan the winner.