Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1887 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. While a gang of brick-layers employed by the firm of Wintering & Dixon, of Pittsburg, were engaged in lining the stacks at Valentine’s furnaces at Bellefonte, Pa., the scaffolding on which they stood gave way, precipitating twelve men to the bottom of the stack, a distance of sixty-five feet Five mon were killed and two others fatally injure! The scaffolding had been weighted down with some 8,000 bricks. Steve Brodie, the man who last year leaped from the Brooklyn bridge, was arrested at Pittsburgh to prevent him from jumping from the cupola of a museum to a net stretched seventy-five feet below, where vast crowds had gathered. Robert L. Cutting, a well-known New York banker and broker, has pa.- sa 1 away. The Maine House of Representatives has passed a bill for the appointment of special commissioners to investigate the reported •ravages of cattle diseases in the State. Quarantine his been declared against all cattle from Massachusetts, New York, and Illinois, except when in transit for export Cases of pleuro-pneumonia have been discovered at Boston. Six boys were killed on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, near Easton, Pa., by a fast passenger train while trying to avoid a coal tra n on the opposite track. Four girls escaped from the House of the Good Shepherd in Brooklyn, by taking the keys from a keeper and climbing a high fence surrounding the institution. One was recaptured in Court street, from her peculiar costume. Carl Schurz fell on a sidewalk in Sixth avenue, New York, and injured his left hip so severely that he had to be assisted to his home. A similar accident happened to Gen. B. F Butler in Philadelphia, the result being that his shoulder was badly wrenched.