Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1887 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week, EASTERN. Ex-Aiderman Duffy, of New York, who informed on his fellow-boodlers, has been surrendered by his Robert Boy 1. Frank Roe, a young citizen of Buffalo, who refused to testify against his mother, who is accused of murder, was found guilty of contempt of court James W. Foshay, late President of the Broadway and Seventh Avenue Railway Company of New York City, is dead. An indictment is on file against Foshay for being a party to the giving of bribes to members of the Board of Aidermen of 1884, in connection with the passage of the Broadway franchise. At a religious meeting in Erie County, Pa., John Lewis, aged 17, was suddenly attacked with hydrophobia, and began snarling .... and biting at persons in his vicinity. Lewis, who was bitten five years ago, was secured with difficulty. Captain Unger, who murdered Edward Bohle, cut up his body, and shipped it in a trunk to Baltimore, was found guilty of manslau r in the first degree, at New York, and sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment at hard labor. Miss Sarah Reed, of Erie, has sold to a syndicate the track and franchises of the Ohio River and Lake Erie Road, which will be expanded into a through line from Erie to Pittsburgh. An agent in New York purchased 200,C00 bushels of oats for the German Governm mt. The Pinkertons have commenced a suit for libel against the Mayor of Jersey City, claiming $250,000 damages on account of a letter he recently published reflecting on them. The personal effects of the late Mrs. A T. Stewart are to bo sold at private auction in the Thirty-fourth street mansion in New York.