Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1884 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. Four families of "assisted” immigrants from Ireland, and four from Germany, who arrived at New York the other day, will be sent back:The brick manufacturers of New York and New Jersey have agreed to close their yards for the season Sept. 20, thus greatly curtailing the produc-' tion. Edward Yard, Jr., & Co., laoe merchants, of New York, have foiled. The liabilities are estimated at $1,000,000. The value of the assests is not fully known.... J. J. Deavitt, formerly a practicing lawer at St. Albans, Vt., has foiled for $50,000. While in the woods near Fritztown, Pa., William Seachrist was attacked-by seven polecats, who scratched and bit him for twenty minutes. He killed six of them with a club, and lay helpless when found by his neighbors. Henry C. Pedder, manager for Arnold, Constable <fc Co., of New York,, has transferred his valuable New Jersey property to the firm, from whom he has embezzled, it is alleged, between SIOO,OOO and $500,000. Herbert Seymour, the confidential bookkeeper of the company, is said to be a defaulter in the sum 0f550,000..... Mrs. C. E. Browne, the mother of Artemus Ward, died recently at Waterford, Me., in her 78th year Five suspected cases of cholera in New York proved to be summer complaint among childrenA company has been formed to build and operate a public crematory, to be heated with natural gas; on the outskirts of Pittsburgh, Pa.