Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1886 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. John Roach, the ship-builder, is dying of cancer of throat, his case being similar to that which carried off General Grant Two large black bears were captured in the Catskill Mountains, last week, after a chase of four- days and a desperate fight Mrs. Hugh Jones and her sister, Mrs. Jane Ryan, of Erie, Pa., and another sister who resides in Wales, have fallen heir to £l,000,000, the estate of a brother who died recently in Calcutta. The Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, the well-known nomologist and horticulturist, died at his Boston res dence, aged 88. A forfeit of SSOO has been put up at New York by John B. Day, of the New York Base-ball Club, aud Chris Von der Abe, of the St Louis Browns, for a series of games next spring for SIO,OOO a side. William Ried, Treasurer of the South Boston Railroad, who embezzled $80,718 and issued 1,263 shares of fraudulent stock, has been sentenced to State prison for seven years. James D. Warren, proprietor of the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser since 1861, and a leader of the Republican party of the State, is dead. He had from his early manhood been influential in political affairs. Near Harmony Grove, Pa., T. B. Sanders decapitated John Swilling, his wife, and three childreen, and then fired the premises. His purpose was to secure S4O which he knew was in the house, and then decamp.