Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1886 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Reeord of the Week. EASTERN. Erastus Brooks, a once prominent journalist anil politician of New York, lias just died, at tho age of 70. While attempting to drive across the Lackawanna track in Syracuse, a farmer named Jeremiah Callahan was fatally injured, his wife and son were killed, and a Mrs. Foley had a leg broken. The foot-ball game between the Princeton and Yale teams, played Thanksgiving day, was apparently wou by the latter, 4to 0, giving the championship to Yala The referee, however, declared the contest a tie, and the matter will be adjudicated by tho College association. The cloth curtain which covers tho electric-light lenses on the Statue of Liberty caught fire and fell on the wooden stairway in the interior of the statue, causing a lire which was only subdued after the hardest work, and threatened Bartholdi's great work with total ruin. Fierce storms swept over sections of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania last week. In Gloucester County, N. J., the thunder, lightning, and hail were terrific, and trees in Philadelphia, tho branches of which were in contact with electric-light wires, were set on fire by the strong current. A strike of the glass-blowers east of the Alleghenies was ordered against apprentices and a reduction of 5 per cent in wages. The late officials of the Glen Rock, Pa., bank have been arrested for embezzling funds to the amount of $750,000. The arrests wore made at the instance of tho Government authorities. George Hazlott and Miss Sadie Allen, 18 years old, went through the Niagara whirlpool and rapids in a torpedo-shaped barrel. They were in the rapids and whirlpool five minutes, and were taken out of the eddy on the Canadian side none tho worse for their perilous trip.