Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1884 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

the: east. Some citizens of Trenton, N. J., who favor cremation, have purchased a potterykiln at Pennington, and will transform it into an oven for burning bodies.... The Rev. John W. Straub, of the Bloomfield Catholic Church, Pittsburg, while crazed with disease, committed suicide by shooting himself with a revolver. On the Charter Oak track at Hartford, while the pacers Princess and George G. were being exercised in different directions for the 2:17 race, both drivers pulled the same way. The animals went into the air and fell flat. George G. died almost instantly, and was buried in view of the assemblage. Princess; received fatal injuries. The horses were valued at $5,000 each.... This year’s hop crop in this country is estimated to be about one-fourth short of the average. - - The business portion of the village of Adams, Jefferson County, N. ¥., was burned, involving a loss of $200,000. Hog cholera has appeared at Shoemakersville, Pa. Many swine are dying... .A sailor found unconscious in a street in New York, died at the Marine Hospital of yellow fever. The Board of Aldermen at-New York, at a secret meeting, passed the ordinance giving a company the right to lay a surface railway on Broadway over the Mayor’s veto. ....The postoffice at Williamsport, Pa., was robbed of $3,500 of stamps.