Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1887 — WEEKLY BUDGET. [ARTICLE]

WEEKLY BUDGET.

THE EASTERN STATES. Ex-Gov. William B Washbubn, of Massachusetts, dropped dead at Springfield, in that State. Thebe were four deaths from Asiatic cholera Tuesday among the patients on Swinebourne Island, New York harbor. The sixth annual convention of the Funeral Directors’ Association of America has been in session at Pittsburg. Ogden, Coldeb A Co., bankers of Troy, N. Y„ have failed for half a million dollars. A company composed of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Chattanooga capitalists has just closed-a trade for 100,000 acres of land in Tennessee. The property is mining property, and the purchasers propose to build several blast-furnaces, rolling-mills, and founderies at Chattanooga.