Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1885 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THEEAST. The Grand Jury at New York has found an indictment for grand larceny against Ferdinand Ward. The case will be tried at once.... New York telegram: “Dr. Douglas remained all night at Gen. Grant's house. He was called once during the night to attend the General, who, while he slept nearly the usual time, passed a restless night ‘I don’t believe father will drive out any more,’ said Col. Fred Grant this morning. ‘His experience lately while driving has not been good, and I think he will not go out in the park any more.’’ Drs. Shrady and Douglas held a consultation and examination, and found the condition of the General’s throat unchanged. He was suffering little if any pain and appeared cheerful. ” Boston dispatches announce the death of Henry Morrison, for many years comptroller of the Boston Theater, and of Robert Treat Paine, a grandson of the signer of the Declaration of Independence.... Two years ago the Rural New Yorker produced a hybrid grain between wheat and rye, and between these has affected another cross that is three-fourths rye, but still very distant from that plant... .Abe Buzzard, the notorious outlaw ~of' Pennsylvania, walked into the jail at Lancaster, and surrendered himself, on the promise of prominent citizens to endeavor to secure a commutation of his sentence by nine years.... A planing-mill in North Buffalo, N. Y., was burned; loss, over SBO,OOO. Several stores and a shoe factory, at Danvers Center, Mass., and the opera house at Plainwell, Mich., were also burned. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher is preaching a series of sermons to his Plymouth Church congregation upon the subject of evolution. In his last Sunday’s sermon he took the ground that the developments of science have rendered the theory of plenary and- verbal inspiration of the Scriptures untenable, but that in another sense—the sense that it is a history of the human race, and that eveiy part of it was lived—the Bible is a divinely book. The preacher advised theologians to abandon the effort to harmonize such biblical legends as the story of the creation of the world in six days with the facts of science. The theory of literal inspiration, he claimed, led surely to infidelity... .After the doctors had visited Gen. Grant, Sunday afternoon, they said that, as compared with a week before, there was no appreciable, increase of the swelling on the throat and no apparent increase of the cancerous trouble in the throat. Philip D. Slocum, of New Bedford, Mass., was shot and killed by Charles Foss. The latter ' was a drunkard, andwanted transportation to Hudson Bay, where he wished to die if he could not be cured of his intemperate habits. Slocum did not procure the transportation, and Foss became enraged at him. After killing Slocum Foss committed suicide..... William Henry, ex-business manager of the New York Herald, is about io start a newspaper in New York City to crush the Herald and the World. He says th it $600,000 of the $1,000,000 necessary has already been subscribed. McLean, of the Cincinnati Enquirer, and ex-Assistant Postmaster General Hatton are said to be interested in the scheme... .The Governor of Massachusetts has signed the Hoosac tunnel bill, which lays the foundation for a through rail line between Boston and Chicago.