Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1887 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. Because of the low stage of water and the scarcity of boats, work in the mines between McKeesport and Brownsville, Pa, is suspended. Six millions bushels of coal are ready for shipmen I ’. High railway rates have crippled the trade. The continued heavy importations of iron and steel prompt a trade journal of Philadelphia to allege that there are undervaluations in the Custom House at New York. Mrs. Sarah E. Howe, of Boston, who was once imprisoned for swindling women by a woman’s-bank scheme, and who re-estab-lished her bank on being released from prison, has fled with $50,000 intrusted to hor. A warrant has been issued for her arrest. Thousands of dollars’ worth of spurious Virginia bonds have been unloaded in Boston and New York. The Mayors of Pittsburg and Allegheny refused to license an exhibition by the John L Sullivan combination. A big fire in the New York docks was caused by a large leakage of oil from the Standard Company’s main pipe, the oil floating on the water being set on fire by sparks from a passing tug.. The aggregate loss was about $150,001). The pews in Grace and Trinity Episcopal churches, on Broadway, N. Y., are to bo made free as rapidly as private ownership ceases or purchases can be effected. 'I ho late Miss Wolfe left $350,000 to Grace Church to aid in the abolition of rentals.