Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1885 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

TBS IiAST. An examination of the books of the ]ate Henry Conover, Assistant Cashier of the Manufacturers and Traders’ Bank of Buffalo, has disclosed a defalcation of $74,000, the money having been abstracted from time to time during several years. The officials announce that the bank’s capital and surplus are unimpaired... .The “American Benefit Association" and the “American Benefit Society, ” insurance concerns of Boston, have been decided fraudulent by the State Insurance Commissioner. They take risks and collect assessments, but pay no claims. They are managed by the same individual, and will be suppressed. ... .One man was killed and three injured by falling from a bucket in a shaft at the new aqueduct in New York. A dispatch from Mount MacGregor says: The letter from Mrs. Grant put in the General's pocket when he was laid in his coffin simply read: “Farewell, we meet again in a better world.” It also contained a lock of Mrs. Grant’s hair. Mrs. Grant visited the remains Thursday morning, and remained alone with them seven or eight minutes. Then she went to her room and remained there until evening, when she again visited the remains..... Dr. George F. Shindy, one of General Grant’s medical advisers, publishes in the Medical Record of Aug’ 1 an extended review of the “surgical and pathological aspects of General Grant’s case/’ He believes that the disease had its inception in the month of June, 1884. and gives a succinct history of' the progress and treatment of the ease from the day ip October last when General Grant first called on Dr. Fordyce Barker, his family sician, up to its fatal termination. It suggests no new theories in regard to the case, and is rather intended- to be a connected narrative for the benefit of the medical profession, being hugely couched in terms familiar to that body. x A New York dispatch of the Ist inst. says: “Preparations for the great military pageant, which is to be the principal feature cf the great funeral on the Bth, continue with great zeal. With the exception of the vast number of details which will now take care of themselves, these preparations may now be called completed. Gen. Hancock has appointed all his aids, and is now occupied during every working hour of the day in receiving and answering applications for place in the line. One hundred and fifty dollars has been offered for the use of a single window on Broadway on the day of the funeral. The decora'ions of the City Hall, where the body is to lie in state, were finished to-day and are very imposing. 'I be bufilling is being girdled with electric light, so that the somber center of interest while the remains lie there will be constantly illuminated. General Hancock issued an prder charging Major General Alexander Shaler with the formation of the escortpolumn of in which the army and navy and commissioned State organizations will be represented. ” Miss Nellie Haeeison, of New York, left Boston for that 6ity, carrying SIB,OOO worth of jewelry in a hand sachel, which was stolen from her before she reached her destination. There is no clew to the thieves In accordance with an act of the Pennsylvania Legislature defining the age at which boys may be employed in and about coal-mines, 500 boys have been discharged from the collieries in the vicinity of Shamokin.... The Supreme Court of New York decided that a load of gypsy paupers, landed there by a French boat, should be returned to France.