Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1887 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. In a Jbrutal prize-fight between two professional pugilists near New York, the arm of one of thim was broken in two different places. I’y the burning of the grocery of W.II s Brothers, in Allegheny City, two persons were suffocated and two others were fatally injured by leaping from the upper floor«. The Bolton dyeing and bleaching mills u ar Fordham, N. Y., were damaged to the amount of $15 r, ,000 by fire and the explosion of drying-cases. A dispatch from Ashland, Pa., says: “Harry G 11, Michael Bohannon, Harry Marron, Daniel Finn, and Eben Francos were killed at the Tunnel colliery. Owing to an anticipated ‘run’ of ‘pillars,’the west gangway hai not been working for a couple of weeks. Notwithstanding all possible circumspection, the apprehended ‘run’ occurred, bringing down with the coal a volume of deadly gas by which the men above named and six mules were suffocated ” Fire destroyed the large factory building at Nos. !—3 to 227 Cmal street, New York. The loss is estimated at $300,000. Continuous rains in portions of Maine and New Hampshire have resulted in disastrous floods. Miss Alice Cobb committed suicide at Portland, Me., and left a note stating that her father was the cause of it, and that her spirit would haunt him as long as he lived.