Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1885 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. The death of Goldsmith Maid, the famous trotter who reigned for years as queen of the turf, occurred in Trenton, N. J., last week. Since her retirement from the turf in *IB7B she had been tenderly cared for on H. N. Smith’s Fashion Stud Farm near Trenton. She was taken ill only two hours before her death. Death was caused by fattv degeneration of the heart.... George "Wilkes, founder of M’i/fces’ Spirt t of the Times, died of Bright’s disease, in New York.... Harry Thompson, husband of Henrietta Vaders, the actress, attempted! suicide at Syracuse. N. Y. No less than 12,000 school-children engaged in the memorial services in honor of General Grant in Pittsburgh. Special services were held under a linden tree planted by General Grant when a guest of the city.... Mrs. Thomas N. Thompson, who had been an abandoned weman before her marriage, decapitated her husband with an ax afc Hilltown, Pa,, and then committed suicide by cutting her throat with a razor The Italian bark Excelsior, from Marseilles, is detained at quarantine below New York, one of the vessel’s crew having died from cholera three days after she left port. ... .Plans have been completed for a new exposition building at Pitttburgh, Pa. It will be built entirely Of iron and glass, at an estimated cost of $200,000. On petition of the Howe Sewing Machine Company Judge Andrews, of Danbury, Ct., has appointed E. Parmeley receiver. The secured outstanding obligations of the company amount to $600,000, and the unsecured floating debt to $150,000. The nominal assets amount to $1,110,000. The company is $30,000 in arrears to employes. ....An application for a receiver for the Charter Oak Life Insurance Company was made at Hartford, Ct., at the instance of the Insurance Commissioner of that State. The company is said to have been embarrassed for about eight years, or ever since the investing of $1,000,000 in an office building... .At McKee’s Rocks, near Pittsburgh, John Jovce, of Leetonia, Ohio, and Pat Burke, ot McKeesport, Pa., heavy-weights, fought with three-ounce gloves, the latter* who was knocked out in the fifth round, being badly punished... . Judge Wallace, of the United States Circuit Court, New York, dismissed the proceedings instituted by James A. Hinckley to remove the Civil Service Commissioners, and declare the law unconstitutional.