Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1887 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. The engine and tender of a passenger tram fell through a trestle near Marietta, Ohio, the engineer and fireman being killed, and two other employes' badly scalded. Michael Early, a passenger, had his left leg crushed. A passenger train was wrecked near Parks Station, N. Y. The smoker turned upside down and caught fire from the stove, the clothing of some of the passengers being burned. Fifteen persons were more or less injured. Charles F. Freeman, of Sandwich, Mas?., who in May, lt>7ll, murdered his child, claiming that the act was performed in accordance with commands from heaven, will be discharged from an insane asylum, whither he was sent by a verdict of a jury. Nate Salsbury, the actor, and Miss Bay Samuels were married at New York by Judge Patterson, of the Supreme Court.

Lawton Bros., New York, dealers in phosphates, are in trouble. The Sheriff seized their establishment under attachments issued on creditors’ claims amounting to *245,000. It is alleged that W. R Lawton, the surviving member of the firm, has disappeared, and that his liabilities are $1,01X1,000. The father of General Daniel E. Sickles died in his home at Now Rochelle, N. Y. Six dead bodies were taken from the hotel ruins at Buffalo. I'.ve persons are doad or missing and twenty-one injured. Henry B. Rumsey, whose family lives at Fort Wayne, IndL, was among the killed, and ho came to his death by boldly attempting to rescue a little girl from the flames. The overhead wires in the streets prevented the fire department from working effectively and led to the loss of life, and at a meeting of citizens it was determined that all wiros would have to be put under ground. Rufus Y. Kirkland, the confidential associate of Walter E. Lawton, the fugitive embezzler of New York, has also disappeared. It is supposed that Lawton took with him one of two wealthy widows, to whom ho was recently paying his addresses. The New York (irapliic says that the National Opera Company is on the verge of dissolution, and wonders who is going to settle the debts of the American or National Opera Company, whose stupendous extravagance, recklessness, and inefficiency exceed anything over known in the history of theatrical management.