Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1885 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. Gen. Grant’s unforced idleness is becoming irksome and his physician is seeking some means to divert the mind of the ■offerer. His general condition has not materially changed within the last week or 60.... J05eph F. Cottringer, of Philadelphia, ex-Secretary of the Central Transportation Company of Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty to charges of embezzlement and forgery, and was sentenced to four years’ solitary confinement. Cottringer is 68 years old and the head of a respectable family The dwelling of Josiah M. Evans, near Grahamton, Pa., was burned the other night, six of his children perishing in the flames. Evans, his wife, and three other children narrowly escaped... .Zoe 8., the famous trotter, was sold at Pittsburgh to &n Italian gentleman for SIO,OOO. The purchaser will take her to Rome Fire • in the grocery establishment of Thurber, Whyland & Co., New York; caused damage to the extent of $100,000; fully insured. THE gallantry of an engineer named George Murphy saved the lives of a number of jiassengers on the West Jersey Kailroad near Atlantic City. The train ran off the track, but the engineer stuck to his post, checking the speed of his train, but sacrificing his own life by so doing... .Fire in the Now York and New England Kailroad Company’s car shops, near Boston, ruined about one-half of the company s extensive works, the Joss being placed at $200,000, with full insurance.. The extensive cotton mills at Utica, New York, will suspend operations during the month of August, and possibly for a longer period, depriving a large'number of men of employment... .A new oil-field has been discovered on a mountain near Elmira, N. Y., the indications being that the deposit is a very rich 0ne.... Thirty persons were prostrated by the heat in New York and Brooklyn in one day.... Sixty persons were overcome by foul air and smoke in blasting at Roxburv, Pa., two of whom died.. Rev. Hr. Iremeus Prime, for nearly fifty'years editor of the New York Observer, died at Manchester, Yt., after a brief illness. John Roach, the ship-builder, bas made an assignment to George E. Weed and George W. Quintard. His preferred claims amount to about $122,000. No statement is made in regard to his financial condition, except that the trouble about the Dolphin, and the more recent decision of the Attorney General that no valid contract existed between him and the Government are the causes leading to the assignment. Roach has expended great amounts of money on the Dolphin and the three new steel cruisers, the Boston, Atlanta, and Chicago, and sees no way by which he can be reimbursed. It is also said that the trouble with the Government has preyed so heavily on his mind that it has been necessary to-keep a constant watch on him. When he found that there was no prospect of being reimbursed by the Government he decided that the best thing he. could do would be to make an assignment. He had $31,000 in bank which he drew out and paid his men. His employes number 2,500.