Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1884 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. Mbs. Hows, of Woman’s Bank notoriety, who served three years for swindling the depositors, has again started a similar institution in Boston, offering $7 a month interest oh SIOO, with three months’ interest in advance... .While a Salvation Army meeting was in progress at Saco, Me., an incendiary fired the hall, bat prompt aotion in dismissing the audience averted a panic. ....Hotel-keepers in New York are excited to the utmost over, several daring robberies of rooms, the plunder amounting to thousands of dollars. A NEGRO named Howard Sullivan was executed at Salem, N. J., for the murder of a white girl named Ella Watson. Stephen Young, living near Dover, N. H., gave a party the other night There was some dynamite for blasting purposes on a shelf, and one of the party, to scare the rest, fired a revolver. The jar caused an explosion of the dynamite, and the house was blown to atoms and burned np. One person, a Frenchman employed by Young, was killed outright and seven wounded. Bonds to the amount of $50,000 and a large amount of railroad stock were destroyed. Miss Sadie Greenfield, of Rochester, was Wows through a window and her head cut open. Several of those injured will probably die. A bain and wind storm of unusual severity passed over Eastern Pennsylvania and New York, unroofing houses and barns, and destroying telegraph wires and doing much damage to other property. In New York City the front wall of the Adams Express Company’s office, on Fifth avenue, was blown down. At Pittsburgh three S’rsons were fatally injured... .The Home übber Works at Trenton, N. J., wero burned, involving a loss of $70,000.