Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1884 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. Swbeney, pitoher of tha Providence Base Ball Club, refused to obey orders on the field, abused the manager, and was expelled. The visit of a certain Union club magnate is alleged to have prompted Sweeney’s action.. . .Several large storehouses and factories were destroyed by fire at Gloucester, Mass. The loses are estimated at half a million dollars.... Jane Grey Swisshelm, the well-known abolitionist and advocate bf woman’s rights, died last week at her home in Sewickley, Pa., in her 69th year Grant <t Ward’s receiver has been empowered to sue all persons who borrowed money from the firm. Two PERSON’S died recently at Arietta, Hamilton County, N. Y.. find many other persons were taken sick, from eating ham obtained from a local butcher, who says it came from Thorn & Co., of Chicago. An analysis of the ham shows that it contained trichina?. It appeal’s that the persons who died used the meat in a partly cooked state. A workman at Gloucester. Mass:, discovered a spark in a bucktful of dynamite cart- ■ ridges'which he was carrying. Hurling the bucket- from-him; it struck a tree. and the explosion which followed shook houses for and-Ttemolrslied windows.: ,D. Root. Sons lt Co.. agricultural im-. plement manufacturers at Mount Joy, Pa., have failecLfor $46,000. Overholt & Co.’s distillery at Connellsville, Pa., has been destroyed by fire. The bonded warehouse attached, Containing 7,000 barrels of whisky,-was also burned. The less on the buildings was $115,060, and on thewliiskyssso,ooo.Both ths buildings and goods were fully insured. A number _of those, who collected during the tire drank of the whisky as it flowed from the warehouse, and got drunk... .An assignment has been made by Hand A Ellsworth, paper dealers in New York, whose liabilities are about $200,000. The Pennsylvania.. Railway Company purchased of land at Freedom, Pa., upon which they will erect shops and round-houses, and will hereafter make up 7 their east and west b'OWfisTfreight trains at tji°t point... .The New’ York Board of Apportionment has authorized—thajssue of 3 per cent, bonds to the amount of $1,000,060 for the purchase of school sit"s and the erection of buildings... .Near - Whitehaven, Pa., a locomotive on the . Le- ’ high Valley Road exploded, killing four men. A freight train then ran into the ■wreck, demolishing several cars. .. .Ex-Gov. Harriman of New Hampshire, died last week, aged 67. Eighteen members of the Salvation Army were arrested in Rochester for singing while parading the streets, and they spent a night in jail,-;. . Fire at Millerstown, Pa., destroyed the Schreiber House, Odd Fellows’ Hall, Herald office, and two stores, the loss reaching $30,0(0.