Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1886 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. Mr. Henry George answers Archbishop Corrigan’s recent pastoral, warning his people against Mr. George’s laud theories. The latter maintains that the recent encyclical of I’ope Lso XIIL does not bear out the interpretation put upon it by the Archbishop. A railway engine exploded near Jersey Hhoro, Pa., killing Phil H. Knight, James Warne, and J. C. I’ield, whose bodies were gathered up in fragments, and dangerously wounding two others. Congressman Abraliam Dowdney died at his residence in New York City. Thus far tho death list of tho Forty-ninth Congress numbers twelve. William Heed, ex-Treasurer of tho South Boston (Mass.) Railroad Company, has pleaded guilty of embezzling 5109,000. Henry D. Garrett, a New York attorney, tried to commit suicide rather than answer a charge of fraudulently appropriating $12,000. He was under $10,( 00 bond. J. C. Hill, a prominent citizen of Englewood, one of Pittsburgh’s suburbs, shot his daughter through the neck by mistake for a burglar. He is almost crazed. On the waters of Niagara River, Alplionso King walked ono hundred yards in a huge pair of tin shoes of his own invention, on a wager of $3,0 0 made in New York. Ebenezer Holmes, the undertaker at Gen. Grant’s funeral, has brought a damage suit for $25,000 against the New York Times, based upon an article published in the issue of Nov. 22, in which his bill is referred to as unjust and baseless, and charges are made that he was drunk and in an unfit condition to perform professional services for tho time during which he claims he was rendering service.