Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1885 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

TUP KAST. While preparations were making for the funeral of Henry Hollowbush, a deceased octogenarian of Frederick, Pennsylvania, who was supposed to have died in' destitute circumstances, several thousand dollars were found scattered about his house. Advices from Mount MacGregor, N. Y., are to the effect that General Grant s condition is not improving. He sleeps reasonably well, but appears to be g: owing steadily weaker. Statements published in Chicago and elsewhere that Mrs. Grant and Mark Twain are sharers in the proceeds of a bust of the General. Karl Gerhardt being the sculptor, are false, and have caused pain to the General’s family. A commissioner has been appointed in Philadelphia u to take testimony regarding the mental condition of John McCullough, the actor.,. .Oil has been struck at a depth of one hundred feet, in Saratoga County, New York, the drill having passed through a stratum of salt and a vein of gas. A cavalcade of wagons laden with merchandise . belonging lo a party of Frenchmen, about sixty in number, was attacked near the forks of the Kennebeck Biver, in Maine, by a gang of thirteen riv-er-drivers, who overturned the wagons and plundered them freely. The Frenchmen rallied to the defense of their property, and a fierce conflict raged for several hours, at the end of which time twelve of the lumbermen were stretched on the ground, several of them with fatal injuries. All are now in custody... .Two men were killed and others ‘injured by the falling wall of a burning building at Albany, N. Y. One of the victims, John A. Luby, had been>s>rominent in politics as a stalwart Republican, and was removed from the position of Surveyor of Customs last month.... The American House and four or five structures at Belfast, Me., were burned, two men perishing in the flames, and twenty horses being loasted in their stalls. The financial loss is $50,900... .In the absence of the cashier , of the Fourth National Bank of Pittsburgh, the clerk in charge was called to see a mythical man at the door, and in his absence thieves got away with SB,OOO.