Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1882 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. Timothy Bailey, a soldier in the war of 1812, the inventor of the knitting machine, died at Ballston, N. Y. The Baltimore and Ohio Express Company paid #40,000 for the horses, wagons and harness of A. T. Stewart & Co., together with a lease of the stables The free thinkers elected as-president, T. L. Brown, of Binghamton, N. Y» The convention received a telegram from Chaplain McCabe, announcing that the Methodists are building more than one church per day, and propose to make it two. In reply the chaplain was asked to let the world haar less of Jesus’ name and see more of His works.... Edward N. Welch, a traveling salesman for a Boston lish-house, has been arrested at McDonough, N. Y., on suspicion of being the perpetrator of the daring bank robbery at Kewanee, 111. On his person was found #4,000. He will be brought westward at once. He was seen in the vicinity of Kewanee at the time of the raid... .In a professional scull race at Saratoga, which included Courtney, Riley and Ross among the contestants, the former came out second, after informing his friends that he should cer(ainly win, causing them to lose thousands of dollars... .In a fire at Walpole, Mass., George L. Ware and Calvin Gay were burned to death... .Charles Mallory, owner of a line of Texas steamships, is dead, and leaves #1,000,000 to his five 50n5....8y the will of Aroonah Huntington, of Brantford, Ont., the state of Vermont acquires #206,727 to be distributed among its educational institutions. General Charles J. Powers, of Rochester, N. Y., died in the street of apoplexy. He led the 108th New York through all the battles from Fredericksburg to the Wilderness, and had since taken high rank as a lawyer.... Early on Sunday morning the Hocking Valley manufacturing works, at Lancaster, 0., were swept away by fire.... A temperance worker at Augusta, Me., secured a warrant a ainst the officers of an express company for bringing liquors to the city. The deputy sheriff broke the locks of the store-house and seized sixty-two cases of beer. It is rumored in Buffalo that the Standard Oil Company is to purchase The Courier for #75,000, and its show printing house for #750,000... .Dr. Reybum has filed a bill for #8,500 for professional services at the bedside of President Garfield. There is good authority for the statement that Drs. Hamilton and Agnew will ask for #15,000 each. A loss of #IOO,OOO was incurred at Haverhill, Massachusettes, by the burning of three factories and three dwellings.... Sparks from a locomotive at Cleveland fired three hundred barrels of patroleum on the fiats, the flames extending to a train of fifteen oil-cars, causing a loss of #80,000.....Wi11iam liam H. Allen, of Philadelphia, President of Girard College for many years, died yesterday of Bright’s disease The banking house of William H. Lloyd k Co., of Philadelphia, closed its doors recently, with liabilities of #150,000.

A mortgage covering property to the amount of #160,000,000 was placed upon record at Philadelphia recently.... Lizzie Selden, the little girl who was kidnapped in Brooklyn a short time since has been found and her abductress arrested... .Two hotels' and a public hall at Orchard Beach, Maine, burned Thursday. The officers of the New York, Chicago and St. Louis road went over the track from Grand Crossing to Cleveland, on Wednesday, In nine hours and twenty-seven minutes.... The Russian refugee committee in New York shipped back to Liverpool on Wednesday 111 filthy and worthless Jews, each of whom was provided with creature comforts for the trip. ... .A mysterious fever is raging among the operatives of the knitting-mills at Little Falls, N. Y. Four have died and twentyeight are prostrate. The following named horses have been entered for the great ten thousand dollars purse for 2:17 class, to be trotted at Beacon park, Boston, on the 14th: Fanny Witherpoor, Black Cloud, Helene, Clingstone, Parana, Edwin Thome, Humboldt, and Santa Claus.