Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1887 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. A new bank, to be known as the Western National Bank of New York, has been organized, with a capital of $3,CC0,000, all of which has been subscribed. C. N. Jordan, Treasurer of the United States, is to be its President Edward Younger, 52 years, has been arrested at New York for the murder of the butchered man found in a trunk at Baltimore The motive of the crime was robbery. John L. Sullivan, champion pugilist of the werld, was knocked out.by an unmuscular but scientific New York doctor. The way it was done is thus told in a dispatch from that city: Sullivan came here to get the best surgical opinion as to his broken arm. They went to the offi.ie of Dr. Sayre, who, after an examination of the injured member, Baid that ithad been set with the palm downward instead of the reverse, and wnile the fighter conversed with his friends the doctor, by a furtive glance, observed Sullivan’s preoccupation, and placing his left arm on Sullivan’s forearm, and the right upon the wrist, he gave the arm a sudden wrench which broke the bones asunder a second time. Sullivan bounded from his reclining position with a sharp cry of pain and sank back upon the cushions in a dead fainting spell. Salts and other vivifying applications soon brought him back to consciousness, and he found his left hand lying pahn upward, as Dr. Sayre says it should do. But tiie fighter was knocked out, and became furthpr wearied by fruitless retchings. He was straightened out after awhile, however, and his arm was bound in plaster of paris. Dr. Sayre says he will bo all right four weeks hence, and will be as strong as ever. The German a Savings Bank of Jersey City has closed its doors on account of the disappearance of Cashier Schroeder with ♦30,00(1. Edward Unger, of New York, has confessed the murder of August Bolile, whose mutilated body ho shipped to Baltimore in a trunk. Near Stockdale, Pennsylvania, a young wife killed her brutal husband, who had threatened her life. She was immediately placed on trial for murder, without counsel or witnesses, and when the Judge directed the jury to acquit her the court room resounded with cheers.