Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1885 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. - At Newburgh, N. Y., a decree of foreclosure has been entered against the West Shore Railroad Company, and the property ordered sold for not less than $22,000,000. A decree of foreclosure has also been granted against the St. Louis, Hannibal and Keokuk Railway Company....At New Britain, Conn., an omnibus crowded with school children was struck by a train, the son and two daughters of the owner of the vehicle being fatally injured. A similar accident at Chambersburg, Pa., resulted in the death of two brothers aged respectively 7 and 4.... Franklin J. Moses, the ex-Governor, was sentenced at Boston to three years imprisonment for swindling. The mud-drum connecting a battery of boilers ini Clarke <t Co.’s Solar Iron Works, at Pittsburgh, exploded, blowing machines, hoop-iron, and tools in all directions, a flying missile bursting the cylinder head /of a large engine, the escaping steam doing deadly work among the employes. Seventeen* men and boys were burned or maimed, two of the victims dying after being removed to the hospital. It is believed that four others are also mortally injured. This is the third explosion in the same mill within five years.... The failure of Mr. Henry Smith to put up Margins caused the suspension of the New York firm of William Heath & Co whose branch house in London is the leading American house in that city. Heath & Co. made assignments, as also did Mr. Smith, who, it is alleged, owes the Heath firm sl,000,000, while Heath <t Co. are supposed to owe their customers about $1,000,000.... After several rounds of a prize-fight between James Donnelly and Edward Berry had been fought near Pittsburgh, Pa., the friends of the latter threw pepper in Donnelly’s face, completely blinding him. Donnelly was at the time getting the belter of the fight, and the referee declaring in his favor, the affair broke up in a genera! row. George Bassendorf, a printer on the Freie Press, of Jersey City, accompanied by a woman, who, as learned from letters found afterward, had left her husband on account of ill-treatment, went to Central Park, in New York. There they made an agreement to kill themselves, Bassendorf shooting the woman and then himself. .. .According to the census just completed, the population of Massachusetts is 1,941,465, an increase of 158,380 since 1880. Boston has 390,406 inhabitants, against 362,536 five years ago.