Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1885 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. > Advices from Pitteborw report that 70 per cent, of the 7,000 coke ovens controlled by the syndicate are now in operation. There is marked improvement in the trade, and all the men discharged during the dull season have been re-employed It is stated that at a meeting of Irish Revolutionists at Buffalo, delegates being present from New York, Chicago and Detroit, an invasion of Canada was projected in case Dominion troops were sent to the Soudan. ... .Mrs. John L. Sullivan has filed an application for divorce from her pugilistic spouse. She Bays that her husband is a drunkard and a brftte, and declares that he has frequently beateh and threatened to kill her.... .Isaac Landauer, dry goods dealer at Medina, N. Y., for the past twenty years, has failed for $30,000. The Citizens’ Latv and Order League of the United States held its sessions last week at New York, the Hon. C. C. Bonney, of Chicago, presiding, in the absence of the President... .Edward Vogely. book-keeper of the Butler (Pa.) Savings Bank, has decamped, leaving a shortage of $50,000, which he lost in oil. George D. K oremac completed, at New York last week, his long walk of 5,100 miles in 100 days, exclusive of Sunday nights. He performed the feat in a track two feet in width and forty-four laps to the mile. He weighed 132 pounds when he started and 114 when he finished. He has probably gone a greater distance on foot than any other man in the same time. Noremac received an ovation at the completion of his task from members of the Midlothian Club and a delegation of the Ancient Order of Foresters. He was given a timing watch by the societies and a, banner bearings the inscription: ‘‘George D. Nore mac, 5,100 Miles in .100 Days. 1884 - 1885." Justos Schwab, the anarchist, was held for trial at New York, for inciting a riot and resisting arrest... .8. C. Bowen <fc Son, a produce baying firm at Medina, N. Y., have failed for $40,000, mid farmers in the district are likely to lose heavily.... All the colliers in the Schuykill district will work but three-quarters time during March. A special dispatch from New York, based on what is claimed to be reliable medical authority, says: Notwithstanding the rose-colored report of Gen. Grant’s health recently given in a medical Journal, the truth Is Gen. Grant. is a very sick man, and his death is apparently not far distant The public have no conception of the shattered condition of his physical system. It is hoped the affection of the tongue may not prove fatal, but there is, as yet no appearance of its not developing a malignant and fatal disease. Although somewhat better now than some weeks ago, the enlarged and inflated tongue continues making it painful to speak or swallow liulds, the only _ nourishment he can take. In addition to this malady Gen. Grant IS a terrible sufferer from neuralgia, and it seems to have taken possession of his whole system. He has had most of his teeth drawn to lessen the neuralgic torture, and his injury in the hip, caused by his fall a year ago, is still a source of very great suffering and forbids physical exercise. It is a fact that should no longer be concealed from the country that Gen. Grant Is rapidly breaking down and apparently without hope of reaction, and unless there should be some unexpected relief, he wiU not be long among the living. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad placed on record at Baltimore a $10,000,000 mortgage to the Union Trast Company, New York, to cover the second consolidation bonds of the Pittsburgh and Connellsville Railroad, recently negotiated to defray the construction expenses of the Pittsburgh aud Connellsville Road and certain branches... At the Court of General Sessions in New York Richard Short, who stabbed Capt. Phelan in O’Donovan Rossa’s office, pleaded not guilty. His bail was increased from $3,000 to $5,000. Mrs. Dudley, the woman who shot Rossa, was held in SSOO bail. A plea of not guilty was also entered in her behalf... .Albany, N. Y., was visited by a destructive fire, which consumed railway and manufacturing property valued at about $225,000. Several acres of ground were bnmedover. ■ »