Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1884 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. Fob the murder of his father, Joseph Sarver, aged 18, ■was hanged at Indiana, Pa. Michael Murray, -whose sanity was questioned, was executed at Ebensburg, Pa., leaving a letter stating that persons who had the power of witchcraft exercised a Bpell over him, which prompted him to commit the murder... .Near Brattleboro, Vt., a car of a mixed train left the track, dragging four other cars, including a passenger coach, down a steep embankment. Two or three persons were fatally and a number slightly injured.... A boiler explosion in Witters’ brewery at Elizabeth, N. J., fired the building, which, with its contents and an adjoining grocery, was destroyed, the loss reaching $25,000. Two men are 6aid to have been killed. An urn which ornamented the roof of a building on West Twenty-third street, New York, was dislodged by the flapping of a flag. It fell to the sidewalk, killing a man engaged in examining colored lithographs on a bulletin board... .Burdett & Pond, of New York, engaged in the South American trade, have failed. The liabilities are placed at $250,000. An association has been formed in Oil City, with a capital of $1,000,000, to purchase oil property belonging to men who will not join the association for the purpose of shutting down the territory and restricting production... .Philadelphia telegram: The Secretary of the American Iron and Steel Association says the price of steel rails is undoubtedly much firmer to-day than it was a month ago. Then We heard of the bottom price being $2(1.50 in Pennsylvania, but now no well-informed person thinks of—a lower price tlmr- $27,507 This recovery of $1 per ton is an exceedingly hopeful sign of the times.... The late Francis B. Haves, of Lexington, Mass., in willing away $8,000,000 or more, left SIO,OOO each to Harvard and Dartmouth colleges and Berwick Academy.,.. Galbraith McMullen died at Sandy Lake, Pa., at the age of 105... .One LTilman, a German, aged 75, fatally shot his wife, 65 years old, near Whitestown, Pa. At Pittsburgh, Abel Smith & Co.’s extensive glass works, a machine shop, and five frame dwellings were consumed by a fire. The loss is placed at $200,000. The A. T. Steams Lumber Company’s property at Neponset, Mass., was burned, the loss reaching $210,000. William Funda & Son’s planing mill at Syracuse, N. Y., was —destroyed: On the fair grounds at Erie, Pa., one of the pole props holding a balloon fell when the aeronaut, Oscar Hunt, had—ascended, killing one person outright and badly crushing a number of others, and resulting in _ a panic.—Hunt descended into the lake, and was drowning when rescued.... In a Brooklyn court a sentence’of three and one-half years in the penitentiary was passed upon a handsome woman of 20 years named Ellen Larrabee, known to the police as a professional burglar. She has already served two terms in prison. A Connecticut farmer named Daniel Shngnee has fallen in love with the fair thief, and begged permission to marry her. Flames destroyed tire Buckingham Hotel at Portsmouth. New Hampshire, sixty, guests having barely time to escape with their lives. A force of marines from the navy yard rendered all the aid possible. The loss is estimated at $140,000 The directors of the New York Central Road, at 8 special meeting - authorized the issue of $15,000,000 debenture bonds to run twenty years at 5 per cent.... Commodore Thomas S. Fillebrown, commander of the New York Navy Yard, died of heart disease... .A daring thief made way with a fold bar from No. 102 Broadway, New ork, valued at $597. He was closely followed, but made good his escape. Dispatches from Allegany county, New York, and the Pennsylvania line tell of a terrible' cyclone. At Sbongo, eight miles south of Wellsville, the town was destroyed and four persons were killed. 'lu Buffalo the wind was forty-four miles per hour, and considerable damage was done. Great damage was inflicted at Alton, many houses being demolished und Several persons injured. The injury to farm property along the track of the storm is very

great.