Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1886 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. The Central Labor Union of New York has issued an address in which the for - mation of a national party is urged. Mayor Grace, of New York, has appointed two women as School Commissioners. Three masked men broke into the house of Matthew C. McKeever, living near Butler, Pa., and, after an hour’s fight, in which Mr. McKeever’s sisters, Margaret and Jane, were terribly injured, succeeded in stealing a bucket containing nearly SIO,OOO, with which they escaped. The east-bound limited express on ilie Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St Louis I tail - road was wrecked by a landslide at Jones’ Ferry, at the outskirts of Pittsburg. Three sleeping-cars were demolished and a number of persons injured, two fatally. New York, Pennsylvania, and other Eastern States were swept by a wind-storm of unusual violence and destructiveness on the 18tli inst In the vicinity of Chambersburg and Lock Haven, Pa., the gale leveled houses and bams, tore up trees by the roots, and imperiled the lives of many persons. The iron smoke-stacks of a paper-mill at Lock Haven were blown down, demolishing another building and burying four men in the ruins. At Wiikesbarre, Pa., roofs were blown off and trees snapped in halves. The Catholic Church at Kingston, Pa., was wrecked, and the steeple of the Methodist Church at Parsons, Pa., was demolished. A carpenter at the latter place was killed by a flying board. The chemical works of John T. Thompson, at Troy, N. Y., were wrecked, causing a loss of $-10,000. Six men were burned by vitriol, and a canalboat captain was blown into the canal and drowned. The storm in Connecticut destroyed a number of large tobacco sheds which contained this year’s crop, and the losses will be heavy. Many buildings were unroofed at Hartford, and chimneys, trees, and fences were blown down, creating a loss of several

thousand dollars. It is reported that twelve barges sunk off Milford, Conn., and that on each barge wore at least two persons. By the explosion of a filter in a salthouse at Syracuse two men were instantly killed and a third was fatally injured. The coke operators of Pittsburg have declined to grant the demands of their employes. A gigantic strike is threatened. At the trial in Now York of Arthur J. McQuade, one of the boodle Aldermen, complete details of the Broadway Railroad bribery were given by ex-Alderman Fullgraff. At an informal meeting held in his office in 1884, by thirteen members of the board, it was stated that #22,000 would be given to each for a franchise, but tire amount was subsequently reduced. Witness received for his vote #IB,OOO at the hands of Mr. Keenan, who had been agreed upon as the disburser. The will of Don Thomas Terry y AdaD, a Cuban planter, was filed in New York. The estato is valued at #00,010,000, and was left to liis twelve children. Henry George was denounced at a socialist meeting in New York on the ground that he now repudiates" their doctrines. Archbishop Corrigan, of New York, has written a pastoral letter, in which ho takes strong ground against Henry George's theories in reference to the ownership of property. On the question of marriages he declares that the contracting parties will hereafter bo required to appear in church and before the altar, except whore both of them aro not Catholics. On the question of burials ho holds that no Catholic can he buried with the church rites except in c.onsoerated ground.