Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1887 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. Judge Peckham, of the New York Supreme Court, has decided that the repeal of the Broadway charter waß constitutional, and that the mortgages are a lien on the property. The will of John Q. A. Williams, on being probated in Boston, was found to contain a bequest of $400,000 for Harvard College. The Laird House and nine other buildings at Greensburg, Pa., were burned. The losses aggregate $100,0,0. James A. McMaster, the editor of the Freeman'* Journal, New York is dead. The socialistic leaders in New York cannot conceal their disgust over drafts for $1,900 drawn by Dr. Aveling and wife for thirteen weeks’ services to the cause. Gen. W. W. Loring Pasha, who commanded a corjis in the Egyptian army, died of pneumonia in New York, agol 09. An Italian girl, named fell across the track of the Third Avenue Elevated Boad in New York, in front es an approaching train, and was instantly killed. The engine had to be raised with jackscrews to release her corpse Meanwhile the road was blocked with trains for two miles. Reports from the New England fisheries show that the past year was a very disastrous one. Twenty-six vessels were lost, valued at $152,000, and 127 persons wore drowned. ■*