Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1887 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. Professor Edward L. Youmans, the distinguished writer and lecturer on scientific subjects, died last week in New York, in his 66th year. Andrew D. White has given to Cornell University his historical library of thirty thousand volumes, which cost more than 8100,00 J. The safe of the Belmont Savings Bank, in the Town Hal J, at Belmont, Mass., was blown open, and securities representing a large sum of money were stolen. Of these about $1,500,C00 are negotiable, while the others a»e not A number of unnegotiable notes were also taken and a small sum in cash. The job was done by professional cracksmen, who left no clew. The annual examination at West Point resulted in the dismissal of thirty-three cadets who were found deficient The trouble arising out of the refusal of the cigar firm of V. Martinez, Ybor & Co., of New York, Ybor City, and Havana, to employ Cuban cigarmakers, culminated in a bloody riot at Ybor City, in the course of which the Cubans killed lit F. Martinez and fatally wounded four other Knights of Labor. It is reported that Henry Ward Beecher and Mark Twain contemplate the production, of a joint novel, the preacher to supply the pathos and the joker the humor. Dr. McGlynn, who is confined to his room by sickness, has issued a statement in which he accuses the Archbishop of suppressing certain letters and parts of letters essential to the understanding of the case. • Barnum’s big lion, Kennedy, aged 20 years and worth $5,000, which had been Buffering from spinal-meningitis for a year, was suffocated with chloroform to relieve it of its pain. It took only six minutes’ application of the anaesthetic to cause death.