Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1884 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. Ex-Jailer Merrick, of Carmel, N. J., convicted of manslaughter by beating a prisoner to death, has been sentenced to ton 1 ears’ penal servitude... .Four of William I. Hooper & Son’s cotton-dnck mills at Woodbury, Md., have closed down nntil September ar until the trade shows greater improvement Anthony Woolver, a wealthy farmer of Erie County, Pennsylvania, stood on the edge of the family veil and cut his throat With a razor. In falling to the bottom he was caught by projecting timbers and rescued, but died m two hours. He was aged 80 yean.