Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1885 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

nuisw. A FIRE which started in C. A. Coffin & Co.’s wooden shoe factory at Lynn, Mass.; spread to the buildings of the Smith Manufacturing Company, Charles B. Tebbetts <t Oa,W two other shoe manufacturing establishments, causing a loss of SIOO,OOO, with insurance in excess of that amount ....Samuel Cardwell, a director of the Murray Hill Bank, was garrotedatNew York and robbed of bank stock certificates amounting to $15,000, $l5O in money, and papers only valuable to the owner.... Three lignters loaded with cotton were burned at the foot of Christopher street, New York. The loss is estimated at $50,000.... An explosion of gas in the Hillman mine, near Wilkesbarre, Pa., killed one man and seriously injured ten others. In East Cambridge, Mass., ex-Governor Moses, of South Carolina, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for obtaining money under false pretenses. Moses made an appeal for mercy, alleging that his mind had given way under his troubles.... The elevated railroads of New York have decided to pay $300,000 in taxes and bring their offices back from Jay Gould’s place on the Hudson. Frau at Troy, N. Y., destroyed SIOO,OOO worth of property. The building burned adjoined the Everett House, and the guests were panic-stricken. An attempt was also made to fire the hotel. Two arrests were made of supposed incendiaries... .A valuable business block in Philadelphia was burned, causing a loss of two lives and $250,000. Nine large business houses, between Second and Front streets, en and near Chestnut, were gutted, and several more were damaged... .One of French, Palmer & French’s spice mills in Fairport, N. Y., was burned. The loss is estimated at $40,000; insurance, $26,000. ... . A medical journal of New York states that all alarming symptoms in Gen? Grant’s tongue and throat have entirely disappeared.