Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1885 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

TOE EAST. The total assessed valuation of real and personal property in Providence, R. L, is $124,202,000, as against $122,496,500 last "“year... .Iron and steel of all kinds are active at Philadelphia, and heavy shipments are been made to the West. Large lots of plate and tank iron have been ordered for October delivery, and the demand, for structural and bridge iron has largely increased. Nails, in small lots, are selling at $2.30, but for large orders quotations are $2.15 and $2.20. Typhoid fever is prevailing in New York City.... .Mrs. Mclntosh, residing near Pittsburgh, requested her son James, aged 23, to shoot a cat Through an inadvertent movement of his mother, the young man sent the bullet into her brain, causing her death. Half-crazed by the accident, young Mclntosh then tried to kill himself. r ' 7 •/: ‘ The Irish Catholic Benevolent Union, in session at Brooklyn, adopted resolutions eulogistic of Judge Keiley, and denouncing the Austrian and Italian Governments for their treatment \of him.... Christian Cooper, of the town of Livingston, Columbia County, N. Y., died last week, aged 111 years 10 months and I£> days. -The completion of a dam in the Ohio River, constructed forthe purpose of maintaining a navigable stage of water at all seasons in the port of Pittsburgh, will be celebrated at that city in grand style on Oct 7... .Wm. N. Riddle, ex-President of the defunct Penn Bank, at Pittsburgh, whose wealth was formerly estimated at $3,000,000, has. been discharged from custody as an insolvent debtor. He is nowpenniless, and owes $250,000... .The 251st anniversary of the incorporation of Concord, Mass., was celebrated last week. Senator Hoar delivered the oration. • : *