Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1884 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. MaS. AnNa Heaney, of New Haven, pleasantly chatted with a friend on a steamer by which she was going home from New York until the vessel had cleared the harbor. Then she jumped overboard and was drowned.... The banking-house of Matthew Morgan’s Sons, in New York, has made an assignment in consequence of the shrinkage of values in railroad bonds. They were rated at $1,000,000, and the institution was founded fifty years ago. They own large amounts of real estate, including the New York Hotel. At the commencement dinner at Harvard College, President Eliot announced that only $125,000 had been donated during the year... .The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher celebrated his seventy-first birthday at Peekskill, N. Y., surrounded by his grandchildren and many of his friends. In the Columbia-Harvard freshman boat race at New London, Conn., the former crew beat the latter three lengths. Time — Columbia, 9:43£; Harvard. 9:54. Six lives were Ipst by the sinking of the schooner Babcock near Barnegat, New Jersey. .. .H. H. Bangs (the Bay State Casket Company) failed at Boston for $400,000.