Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1885 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. William Shields, an old man whom President Arthur recently appointed Postmaster at West Chester, Pa., grew so mnch confused over h* B new duties that he drowned himself. A fellow named Lieb advertised in a New York newspaper that he had a girl of 11 years to dispose of. A detective was sent by a charitable society to investigate the matter, and found that the father demanded SI,OOO. - The child was brought before Judge Van Vorst, who gave the case a searching inquiry and awarded the girl to a wealthy and reputable insurance agent as a companion for his wife'...Mrs. E. D. Morgan, widow of ex-Gov. Edwin D. Morgan, died at New York. The Supreme Court of New York has ordered the release of Becky Jones, who spent a year in Ludlow Street Jail rather than testify in the Hammersley will case. Gen. Grant testified that he paid in SIOO,OOO as a special partner in the firm of Grant k Ward; that on May 1 last he thought himself worth $1,000,000; that he drew from the firm $3,000 per month for two years, and that everything he possessed was lost in the failure. The lithographic art establishment of Schumacher k Ettlinger, New York, was burned, causing a loss of $350,000. Mr. F. 8. Winston, of New York, whose death is announced, had in many respects a unique and remarkable history. He was the founder really of American life insurance, and lived to see the system from a very small beginning reach its present imposing dimensions. American life insurance, with its $500,000,000 and upward of assets, its 700,000 policy holders, and its average weekly payments in death and endowment claims of over $1,300,000,is largely the outgrowth of Mr. Winston’s ideas and methods. A corpse found in the Delaware River at Trenton, N. J., has been identified by several persons as that of hi. 8. Conant, the missing editor of Harper’a 'Weekly.