Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1886 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. The farmers in the vicinity of Rochester, N. Y., arc being swind ed by tbe old Bohemian oat game. Mrs. Blakesley, of New Haven, Conn., was delivered of a child weighing liftcen pounds, by the Caisarean method. The mother is very low, but the physicians are confident of her recovery. Pleas of not guilty have been entered in a New York court, on twenty-ono indictments for bribery, by Jacob Sharp, James Richmond, J. W. Fosliay, and Thomas B. Kerr. The anti-music convention of United rresbyteriaus, in session at Pittsburg, adopted a plan of organization for those opposed to instrumental music in churches. The new organization will lie known as the United Presbyterian Association of North America, and adjourned to moot next November at Xenia, Ohio. At Roger Williams Park, Providence, R. L, Thomas Murphy, a keeper, while cleaning a cage occupied by two large monkeys—the male bearing the name of Ben Butler—was attacked by tho animals, which fought like tigers, lacerating and tearing Murphy’s face, hands, and breast in a shocking manner. It is a case of wonder that tho keeper escaped with his life. A New York paper prints a sensational story to the effect that tho disappearance of Mrs. Victoria Morosini-Schilling has been the result of foul piny. A fire on Staten Island, caused by a kerosene lamp, destroyed a dyeing establishment at West New Brighton, valued at SIOO, COO. Snow fell at Lockport, New York, Boston, and as far west as Cleveland last week, to tho depth of a foot, impeding railway travel. In a loft at Kingston, N. Y'., there was found the original letter written by Benedict Arnold to the American people to vindicate himself for liis attempted betrayal of tho country.