Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1886 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. Severe frosts, - damaging to vegetation, are reported from Northern New Hampshire and Vermont. Dr. S. Buttemore, a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1883, made misrepre>entations which drew $12,500 from the State Treasury, for which offense he has been fined SI,OOO and sentenced to sixty days’ imprisonment. George M. Bartholomew of Hartford, President of the Charter Oak Life Insurance Company, is $157,000 short, and has disappeared. An application has been made for a receiver for the company. George M. Bartholomew, the President of the Charter Oak Life Insurance Company, who has just disappeared from Hartford, not only owed that corporation several hundred thousand dollars, but managed to get into debt at the banks over $2,000,000. In Philadelphia Councilman John R. Lloyd and Police Lieutenant D. B. Roche, both intoxicated, accompanied by a band of policemen and ward-workers, indulged in indiscriminate shooting at political opponents in saloons and on the street. A negro was fatally wounded in the back, and Charles Petroff was beaten to insensibility with black jacks. In aniron mnio at Jaysville, N. Y., after a charge of dynamite bad been fired, two men were killed by a fall of rock. Bishop Shannalian, of Harrisburg, ■was attacked by congestion of the brain, and died in a few hours. In enlarging a cellar at Mahanoy City, Pa., workmen found an earthen jar con tabling several thousand dollars in gold. The widow who owns the residence made the excavators surrender what they had pocketed.