Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1885 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. A LOSS of over $1,000,000 was incurred in New York by the burning of a marble building in Barclay street, occupied by several manufacturing firms. Seventeen engines were employed in suppressing the flames. Dr. 8. J. Allen, formerly a surgeon in Gen. Custer’s command, has beeii sentenced to five years* imprisonment in the Massachusetts Penitentiary for shooting Dell Hanson in a Boston saloon. Richard Short, who stabbed Capt Phelan in O’Donovan Rossa’s office at New York, was held in $3,000 bail, Phelan, who was in court looking wan and thin, identifying his assailant and asking for police protection. Two officers accompanied the Captain and his wife to their lodgings the burning of a leather store at No. 85 Gold street, New York, property to the value of $225,000 was destroyed.... A strike is impending in the Tuscarawas Valley. 3,000 coal miners refusing to accept a reduction of wages. An oil-train from Philadelphia, while stopping for repairs on the Pennsylvania Railroad bridge over the Raritan River at New Brunswick, N. J., was struck by a through freight and thrown over the bridge into the street below. The oil took tire and ran along the gutters and over the ice of the Raritan Canal, setting fire to a number of buildings, which were totally destroyed. One span of the bridge, which is the finest on the road, is damaged. The loss is estimated at nearly $1,000,000. Two lives "at least were lost. The accident was caused by the carelessness of a.telegraph operator.... D. J. Morrell, formerly a member of Congress from Pennsylvania, and now holding the Presidency of the Cambria Iron Company at Johnstown, has been sent to a private insane asylum in Philadelphia... .The cashier of the Livepool and London and Globe Insurance Company’s branch at New York is a defaulter to the amount of $27,000.,.. President Arthur will resume the practice of law in New York after March 4, in partnership with Charles E. Miller... .The New York banks are holding $54,985,00010 excess of their legal requirements.,. .Wm. Forrester, stage manager of the Boston Ideal Opera Company, died in Baltimore. ... .Jos. Grinnell, a member of Congress from 1843 to 1851, died in Boston.