Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1888 — WEEKLY BUDGET. [ARTICLE]

WEEKLY BUDGET.

THE EABTEM STATES. The new building of the Consolidated Exchange, at New York, has been opened. Elizabeth Arnold, a colored woman, has just died at Pittsburg, at the age of 11& Dr. Agnew, the celebrated New York physician who was the first to be called to attend Roscoe Conkling when the latter entered upon his final illness, is dead. He had been very dangerously ill for some days. An abscess formed in the peritoneal cavity, and the delicate operation of laporotomy was performed. After the operation the patient rallied, and, though suffering considerable pain, seemed relieved, but he later grew worse, and was unconscious for some time before he died. Fire at North Braddock, Pa., caused a loss of $20,000. Fifty persons were rendered homeless. A woman who was wounded in the hand by a rooster on the farm of Ephraim Hershey, at Lancaster, Ta., died from Jockjaw. The funeral services over the remains of the late Roscoe Conkling took place in Trinity Chapel, New York City, Rev. Morgan Dix officiating. The remains were taken by spec al train to Utica, where the burial services and interment were held. At Newark, N. J., the planing mill of Jarvis <fc McClure was destroyed by fire, at a loss of $50,000, partially insured.