Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1887 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. The Pennsylvania Railroad officials claim that not over $15,458 worth ofc spools were stolen by their trainmen between Pittsburgh and Columbus in 1888, and that the thefts on the Pan-Handle Division were comparatively no greater. The failure is announced of George Clark, a millionaire land-owner and hopdealer of Springfield, New York. There are SIIOO,OCO in judgments standing aga : nstliim. Old “Spot,” the horse which Gen. Kilpatrick rode in his famous expeditions during the war, died at Deckertown, N. J., a few days ago. Ho was S 3 years old. A paper-mill boiler at Paterson, N. J., blew up, injuring twenty persons. Orders have been issued to the Police Captains of New York and Brooklyn to rigidly enforce the Sunday-closing law. “Doc” Levi Wilson, who is widely known through Ins famous suit against Philip L. Moen, the barbed-wire manufacturer of Worcester, Mass., attempted suicide in his rooms at a Providence hotel, by taking laudanum. Medical assistance was quickly summoned and his life was saved. Wilson’s wife recently began divorce proceedings against him, and refused to allow him to see liis children. This greatly depressed Wilson, and is the probable cause of his act