Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1885 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. , - - • The war ship Niagara, which was sold at auction in Boston last week for $12,300, aided in laying tho first Atlantic cable, and took home the earliest Japanese embassy visiting t£e United States.... An octogenarian of Freesville, N. Y., named Geo. W. Tripp, being informed that his wife would soon die from cancer, hanged himself to a beam in his barn, leaving a note stating that he Could not bear the thought of being left alone. It is now shown that the only foundation for the report that shots were fired at the train in which President Cleveland was returning from Gettysburg to Washington, was the fact that a man on tho cars discharged a pistol which he disliked to carry loaded....A Wilkesbarre dispatch says “the frightful epidemic at Plymouth. Pa., is explained and the medical theory that typhoidfever originated from a poison swallowed with the food or drink is sn6tnined. Plymouth has a population of 8,000. Fully 1,000 people were prostrated, and there were seventy deaths. The disease is just reaching its climax. There are half a dozen deaths daily. ”.... The Sea View, Atlantic, and Ocean, Houses at Hampton Beach, N. H., with several cottages, were burned, the loss reaching SIOO,000.... It is now thought that more than twenty people in the recent Brooklyn l disaster. Gen. Grant is taking daily walks, and 6eems to be gaining strength, but there is no apparent diminution in the cancerous affection in his throat Dk, H. T. Helmb®ld, of buchu fame, discharged recently from the Insane Asylum, was remarried at Philadelphia to his former wife, after the granting of an application to set aside the appointment of a commission, under which he had been declared insane, had been granted... .The banks of New York report the possession of $55,300,725 above the legal requirements