Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1887 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. Samuel F. Besse was hanged at Plymouth, Maes., for murdering Richard N. Lawton, of Westport, Dec. 23, 188-5. Only the •witnesses specified by law were admitted to the jail-yard, and the hour of the execution was kept secret, and the crowd which usually assembles at hangings did not gather at the jaiL Wesley Greer, of Cannonsburg, Pa., has been awarded damages of $0,902 for the destruction of his house by the escape of natural gas from the company’s pipes 122 feet distant.'* The funeral of Henry Ward Beecher, at Greenwood Cemetery, New York, was attended by an immense concourse of the deceased’s friends and parishioners. Mrs. Beecher and the other relatives took an affecting farewell of the remains at Plymouth Church. The prayer of Pastor Halliday at the grave was of an unusually touching description. The will of Mr. Beecher bequeaths liis life-insurance policy to his widow, the sum to be invested and paid to her in quarterly payments. Tho remainder of his estate is left to his children. Fears are entertained that Mrs. Beecher will not long survive her husband. Mr. J. Q. A. Ward, the sculptor, made a very satisfactory cast of the great preacher’s face. The State of New Hampshire last year paid $193 for grasshopper bounties and SB2O on bears. Burnett Tiffany, whose secret marriage to Bertha Peirson created so much gossip in New York, has sailed for Havre, and tho understanding is that he has left his two weeks’ bride never to return to her. He was prompted by his parents, it is said, in taking the step, and the young brido languishes in the back room of a third-story tenement without any visible means of support. The funeral of Mrs. Neebe, wife of one of the condemned anarchists, was made tho oocasion at Chicago of a formidable demonstration by the followers of the red flag. Addresses were mado by George Schilling and Paul Grottkau, the latter denouncing tho authorities for indirectly causing Mrs. Neobe’s death. Tho Paris commune was eulogized at length and its leaders treated as the pioneers of a great and good cause.