Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1884 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. The Supreme Court of New York has declared unconstitutional the law forbidding the manufacture of cigars m the tene-ment-houses of the larger cities... .The Fort Pitt iron and steelworks at Pittsburgh, Pa., which have been, closed down for nearly three months, have resumed, giving employment to several hundred men.., .About 10,000 persons assembled at the Northampton camp-ground, near tipringfield. Mass., on the Bth inst., to celebrate the centennial of the independence of American Methodism. ... Goenerweir, champion of Europe, and Augustine Schmitt, champion of Germany, wrestled (Swiss rules') at New' York. Schmitt pulled his antagonist’s arm out of its socket and won the match.... George Dolling recently caught a young rat hi a mine at Honesdale, Pai, and made a pet of it The animal repaid the kindness by biting its benefactor with such severity as to cause his , death.... John L. Sullivan, the pugilist, declares that he has forever given up drinking, and will immediately go into training to spar Laftin and others. He will then give some farewell engagements, and make a tour of the British islands and Australia.... Bufglai-s raided the town of Perry. N. Y., securing about SB,OOO worth of plunder. Masked and aimed men invaded the house of Joseph Gates in White Township, Pa., compelled the. proprietor to give them SI,OOO which he had secreted, and then departed firing their weapons.... .At Allegheny City, Pa., Leo Brigel, aged 13, destroyed the eyesight of Bertie Black, a 4-year-old girl, by throwing mortar in her eyes) besides seriously burning two' other children... .A fall of rock inlbe Bed Ash mine, near Wilkesbarre, Pa., killed two men. HOG cholera is prevailing to an alarming extent in Eastern Pennsylvania.... Diphtheria has become epidemic at Astoria, L. IThe window-glass manufacturers of Pittsburgh are considering the advisability of closing their works, owing to the dullness of trade.