Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1884 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. Some students in the Industrial Institute at Worcester, Mass., recently led a horse up two flights of stairs to the chapel. Twenty-eight members of the classes have been suspended for refusing to confess the details. ..Three masked men entered the house of Capt John Morrow, an aged invalid, at Mansfield, Da., bound two ladies of the family with ropes, and carried away SSOO in money and some valuable property.... The community at Trenton, N. J., was shocked the other morning by the report, subsequently confirmed, that the Rev. Henry E. Williamson, rector of St. Paul’s Church of that city, and a son of ex-Chancellor Williamson, of Elizabeth, had taken his own life. According to the statements of friends, the deceased had for some tithe suffered from acute mental depression. Counterfeit $lO bills on a Cincinnati bank are plentiful at Camden, N. J., and Wm. L. Thompson, an engraver, was arrested at Philadelphia as being one of the coiners.... Services commemorating the one hundredth anniversary of the consecration of Samuel Seabury, the first American Episcopal Bishop, were held at Trinity Church, New York, and Christ Church, Hartford.... King & Upstou’s glue works at Peabody, Mass., were burned, causing a —loss of $90,000, with insurance of $70,000. Rebecca Jones, for many years housekeeper for the Hammersleys, in Fifth avenue, New York, was last May sent to Ludlow street jail for contempt in refusing to answer questions in the famous -will case. After remaining in prison with a parrot for six months, she has petitioned to be sct-rit liberty ... .The losses incurred by the Hocking Valley strike are reported at $4,011,000. ....Miss Nancy Gould, of Portland, Me., who recently died, willed to the Government a house and lot worth $2,000, to be liked in paying the national debt. The Solicitor of the Treasury will sell the property.