Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1884 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

TIIE EAST. Wbstcott & Co., stock-brokers at Sjracuse, N. Y., made an assignment, giving preferences for $52,377, and the assets will just about cover the latter sum. S. D„ Richardson, drj goods retailer, of the same city, also failed. Both were caused by the suspension of "Wilkinson Brothers’ bank ' Uncle” Silas Savage was buried at public expense last week at Hartford, Conn. His claims under the French spoliation matter were $175,000, and he died the very day the United States Senate referred the question of claims to the Court of Appeals. Miss Newman, whose supposed dead body was taken from a grave in Egremont, Mass., to Albany and was restored to life on the dissecting table, is now perfectly sane and wedded to a physician—nephew of one of the men acquainted with the facts of her resurrection. She proposes to visit friends in the Berkshire Hills within a short time. ZZZ H, J. Goodwin, dealer in woolens, at New York, made an assignment, his preferences amounting to $100,000.... A fire at New Bedford, Mass., destroyed the drygoods store of Haskell & Tripp and injured other buildings, causing a loss of $88,500. The New York Leaf Tobacco Board of Trade resolved by r a unanimous vote to protest against the ratification Of the pending treaty between Spain and the United States The imports at the port of New York for the week were $8,133,000, of which $6,430,000 were general merchandise, and $1,703,000 drygoods.