Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1887 — WEEKLY BUDGET. [ARTICLE]

WEEKLY BUDGET.

THE EASTERN STATES. Thomas Bbown, of Philadelphia, waa elected Worthy Grand President of the Grand Lodge, Order of the Sons of St George, which has just held its sixteenth annual convention at Pittsburgh. Miss Josie Barnard, a Lowell heiress, was married to her grandmother’s coachman a year or two ago. She now finds herself reduced to destitution, and has just returned to Lowell from Providence on a ticket furnished by the Overseers of the Poor. Young ladies with a weakness' for coachmen should paste this item in their hats. Pbof. Spenceb F. Baibd, of the United States Fish Commission, died at Wood’s Holl, Mass. He was boro at Reading, Pa., in 1823. He became Professor of Natural Science in Dickinson College and afterward Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Besides his other labors he has translated and edited the “Iconographic Encyclopedia,”, and published reports on ths collections in natural history made by Stansbury, Gilliss, Marcy and others. He also published in conjunction with J. Casein “Tho Birds of North America” and “The Mammals of North America. ” The inquest on the body of the Baltimore and Ohio engineer killed in tho accident at Washington resulted in a verdict censuring the company for running its trains into the city at a dangerous rate of speed. All tho injured will recover. Alvin Clark, who had a world-wide reputation as a practical astronomer and manufacturer of telescopes, and who has been a resident of Cambridge, Mass., for the past fifty-two years, died at that place Friday, 19th inst, aged 83 years and 6 months. Through his efforts he has given to the world the largest and most powerful astronomical instruments ever made. The North German Lloyd steamer Trane, from Bremen, crashed into the pier at Hoboken, N. J., and part of a shed fell upon tho passengers who were crowding her decks. Some of them were fatally and very many seriously injured. Mrs. Et.i.a Dinsmore has been convicted at Clarion, Pa., of the murder of James Davis, after a lengthy and sensational trial. David L. King is now under sentence of death for the same crime. Mrs. Dinsmore was an adventuress, with whom both Davis and King were infatuated, and conspired with the latter to entice Davis to her lodgings, where King killed him. It is supposed tho object of the murder was to plunder the victim, who was very wealthy. Both King and Mrs. Dinsmore pleaded self-defense on their trials.