Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1885 — THE HEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE HEWS CONDENSED.

:■ : V THE BAST. JOHN McCullough, the unfortunate actor, came very near being crashed to death in a railway station in Philadelphia, Hew Year’s night A colored coachtnan saved hie life by lifting him upon a car platform.... It is said that five physicians who met in consultation the other day regarding the condition of Gen. Grant's health came to the condnsion that he was completely broken down.... John Gallagher, a gray-haired citizen of New York, was compelled to ask admission to the workhouse, because of delay by savings bank officers over the loss of his book, representing $20,000. Andrew Carnegie, the Pittsburgh millionaire, has announced himself a Socialist. He has not divided up his millions among his employes as yet... .The Pittsburg Bessemer Steel Works have reduced the wages of employes, on an average, 21 per cent.,. .last year at the Philadelphia Mint 62,270,000 pieces were coined, the valne of which was $16,947,000. Archbishop Ryan, with imposing ceremonies, was invested with the pallium at Philadelphia, 5,000 people being in the church. The streets were crowded with those unable to get into the building, and it required the services of fifty policemen and two companies of the pioneer corps to keep them under control... .The widow of George T. Chambers and her stepson, Harold Chambers, were married m New York. He is now 21 and his bride 45. Harold is her third husband, and the mother, mother-in-law, and bride are said to be worth millions.... .The amputation of a toe developed blood-poisoning, which caused the death of the Rev. Noah Hunt Schenck, of Brooklyn, in his 60th year.... The employes of the Keystone Bridge Company, at Pittsburgh, have accepted a reduction of 10 per cent in their wages, and work will be resumed.:.. Dr. John Maxwell, who was lodged in jail at Springfield, Ohio, for poisoning ms three young daughters, hanged himself in his ce11.... U. S. Grant, ’Jr., testified at New York that the day succeeding the collapse of the family banking honse Ferdinand Ward made to him a full confession of his rascality... .George Lisner, proprietor of the “Palace Royal" dry goods store, New York, has made an assignment Liabilities, $100,000; assets, unknown. Ex-Gov. Cobourn died at Skoehegan, Me., aged 82 years. He never recovered from a severe attack of illness received while attending the electoral college at :* Atigusta.