Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1884 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. The Craighton House and Brickett Building, at Haverhill, Mass., were destroyed by fire. Several inmates of the hotel escaped by tying bed-clothing into a rope, and by this means sliding to the ground. Two girls jumped from a window, one being fatally hint and the other seriously, while a baby’s life was saved by throwing it, tied up in a sheet, to a fireman...Zin the United States Circuit Court, at New York, Judge Shipman directed the jury to return a verdict for Secretary McCulloch in the action brought by A. D. R. Lamar to recover SIIO,OOO for cotton confiscated during the war.. . .Students at Harvard have begun an effort to make attendance at morning chapel voluntary for men 21 years old, and optional with parents for students under that age. The co-operation of Harvard graduates throughout the country will be invoked.. .. Clergyjnen of various sects held a meeting at New Haven, Conn., and agreed to hold a congress of American churches in that city next May. Reports of heavy reductions in the number of operatives, and of fears that many of the manufacturing interests concerned will close down indefinitely, come from Boston, Fall River, Pittsburgh, and other centers. The outlook for the winter is not a specially attractive one to the skilled working classes in the East.... A street-car dashed down the incline in Butler street, at Pittsburg, and jumping the track, ran on the sidewalk for a block, when the horses fell and the car passed over them, inflicting injuries which necessitated their being killed. The twenty-three passengers on board were badly bruised, two of them seriously... .A meeting of Boston merchants urged Congress to suspend the silver dollar coinage, to pass a bankruptcy law, and to effect as speedily as possible reciprocity with Mexico and Canada.... While being warmed by workmen, at Worcester, Mass., Atlas powder cartridges exploded, one of the men being killed, two injured, and all the windows in the vicinity wrecked;.. .The United States dispatchboat Dolphin, built by John Roach, broke down on a trial trip off the coast of Connecticut. A SERIOUS drought prevails in New' Hampshire. In Nashua scarcely any water can be obtained for purposes. The sewerage of the city is affected in consequence of the scarcity of water, and scar - let fever has broken out The schools of the city have been ordered closed.... J. L. Cranberry, a clerk in a wholesale house in Baltimore, lost $1,500 of his employer’s money while on a spree. On fully recovering his equilibrium he was so con-science-stricken as to kill himself by severing an artery in his wrist—.r— New Hampshire experienced several further shocks of earthquake in various parts of the State on Nov. 22..... Charles A. Hill ate a crow in Boston, in payment of an election bet. He ate if all except the bones.