Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1884 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. The Thetis, Alert, and Bear arrived at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on the Ist inst, where Lieut Greely was joined by his rife and children*, from California, and his mother and brother, from Massachusetts. Secretary Chandler and Gen. Hazen extended their heartiest congratulations.... Ihe Wanuamaker Company's furniture factory, Howard’s Hotel, a planing-mill, (umber yard, and four saloons at Philadelphia were destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $100,000,. . . The Delaware and Hudson and Plattsburg Dock Company’s freight houses at Plattsburg, N. Y„ with their contents, two warehouses, arid a number of loaded freight ears Were swept away by fire.... By the burning of a building at New York a child perished in the flames, and four persons were fatally burned. The financial loss is $55,000... .Jay-Eye-See trotted a mile at Providence in 2:10, beating the record of Maud S. The big hotels in the fashionable resorts the East are not as extensively patronsed this year as during last and previous seasons. People do not appear to have so much money to spend, and are willing to out up with boarding-house aceommodaaons in order to economize... .Nearly half ihe buildings in Afton, N. Y., were swept ■-way by fire, the loss being $75,000.