Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1886 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Reeord of the Week. EASTERN. The Rhode Island Supreme Court has dismissed the bill brought before it in •which it was sought to establish that the prohibitory amendment recently voted upon in that State did not receive the requisite threefifths majority. Hon. Austin F. Pike, United States Senator from New Hampshire, dropped dead while walking on his farm at Franklin Falls, N. H. Mr. Pike had been ill for a year, and when he last quitted his seat in the Senate chamber it was freely suggested that he might never return. In 1872 he was elected to Congress. He was re-elected at the expiration of his term in 1873. Mr. Pike was elected to succeed Hon. E. H. Hollins in the Senate, He leaves a widow, son, and two daughters. His age was G 7. Fire at Punxsutawney, Pa., destroyed over SIOO,OOO worth of property. Thirty-five buildings, including two hotels, were burned. Town Treasurer Josiali Carter, of Pittsfield, Mass., is reported to be $50,000 short in his accounts. Latimer E. Jones, a lumber dealer in New York, issued nearly $300,001) in fictitious paper, and fled the city.