Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1887 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. John Wilson’s Sons, clock dealers at New York, have failed for $78,000. Dr. William Perry, the oldest graduate of Harvard College, and sole survivor of the passengers who made the first trip on Fulton’s steamboat, died at Exeter, N. H., aged 98. The dynamite factory at Plattsburg, New York, was destroyed by an explosion which shook buildings at Burlington, Vermont The Boston Chamber of Commerce adopted resolutions objecting to the “long and short haul” clause of the Cullom bill, and the Philadelphia Commercial Exchange indorsed it

John M. Wilson was hanged at Norristown, Pa,, for the murder of Anthony W. Dealy. Wilson gave himself up in Chicago while delirious with drink. The District Attorney of Boston has filed a bill of complaint by the Government against the American Bell Telephone Company. It is essentially the same as that dismissed at Columbus for lack of jurisdiction. An expedition under Professor Chas. A. Young is to be sent from Princeton College to Russia to observe the eclipse next August Cocoaine has nearly brought to the grave Dr. C. N. Moore, of Springfield, Pa., who for weeks has been suffering from hallucinations. Archbishop Corrigan has appointed the Rev. Joseph Donnelly as the successor of Father McGlynn in New York The appointee has been pastor of St Michael’s Church for thirty years. The action of H. B. Jacobs, who recently bought the lease of the Third Avenue Theater in New York of J. M Hill, in reducing his prices to 50 cents for the best chair in the house, and from that down to a dime for a seat in the gallery, with a maximum charge of 30 cents for matinees, has raised a storm in theatrical circles. The managers of seven of the other combination theaters have combined to boycott all companies who play at the Third Avenue under the new schedule. Cholera is prevailing on the upper River Plate, in South America, and reports indicate that hundreds are dying every day. John L. Sullivan has set about writing a book, the object of which is to get even with the newspapers which have exposed his drunken brutality from time to time.