Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1884 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. Bishop Matthew Simpson, of tbe Methodist Episcopal Church, breathed his Philadelphia, after a lingering illness at the close of his seventy-third year. About five thousand persons, mostly Spanish-Americans, assembled at Central Park, New York, to witness the unveiling of a statue to Bolivar, the greet liberator. ... .Mrs. John Roth escaped from a burning building at Erie, Pa. She rushed back to get her clothing and was burned to death. A statue of the late Gov. Buckingham, of Connecticut, was unveiled at Hartford, in presence of six thousand militianon and a vast concourse of citizens... .By a decision of the New York courts the Rev. John P. Newman is restrained from officiating as pastor of the Madison Avenue Congregational Church, taking charge of its services or meetings, or from receiving salary, save as acting pastor, sinoe March 31 of this year. June 21 was the hottest d9y of the season in New York; the thermometer in various parts of the city marked a temperature from 95 to 102 degrees in the shade. A large number of cases of prostration by heat were reported — two of them fatal. The wholesale bakery of A. D. Hassman, in Brooklyn, N. Y., valued at SIOO,OOO, was burned a few days ago. Three firemen were killed by falling walls, aud eight horses were snffiocated in the stable.