Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1885 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

f— T THE EAST. His Eminence John McCloskey, Cardinal Priest of the Roman Church, fifth Bishop and second Archbishop of New York, died at his residence in that city on the 10th inst., after a lingering illness. The Cardinal's three nieces—Mrs. John Kelly, Miss Mullen, and Mrs. Cleary, of Washington—and Catherine, the old servant who has been with the Cardinal since he was a young man, were with him when he died. By the death of the Cardinal Archbishop, Dr. Corrigan, the Coadjutor Archbishop, becomes Archbishop, but not Cardinal, and there remains no American Cardinal. Cardinal McCloskey was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., March 20, 1810. He received his early classical education at New York, and subsequently entered Mount St Mary’s College, Emmitsburg, Md., and after graduating pursued his theological studies in the seminary connected with the college. He was ordained priest in the St Patrick’s Cathedral, New York, in January, 1834”. Soon after this ■he went to Rome, and for two years attended the lectures in the Roman College. On his return to New York he was appointed assistant pastor, and six months later pastor, of the Church of St. Joseph, New .York, which office he retained or six years, except one year (1841), during which he was President of St. John's College, near Fordham, N. Y. In 1844 he was consecrated coadjutor of the Right Rev. John Hughes, D. D., then Bishop, and subsequently Archbishop, of New’ York, and in September, 1847, on the creation of the new diocese of Albany, was installed as its Bishop. On the death of Archbishop Hughes, Bishop McCloskey was transferred to the vacant see, May 6, 1864. He was made Cardinal by Pius IX. Leo XIII. conferred the red hat upon him in 1878. George H. Smith, of Pittsburgh} ran ■l5O yards in 14 J seconds, making the fastest time on record, and winning the American championship and a purse of $1,030. - ... .A handsome residence at Cambridge, N. X, belonging to Henry B. Welles, caugnt fire during a drunken revel given in his absence by his reputed wife, and was totally destroyed. Welles, who is a nephew of the late Gideon Welles, declares in the public prints that the woman was only his mistress, while she claims to have been the victim of a mock marriage. The couple have moved in the best society of Eastern New York. The explosion of 300,000 pounds of dynamite stored under Flood Rock in New York harbor was successfully accomplished last week. The shock was felt in the lower end of New York City. As nearly as could be ascertained the results of the explosion were satisfactory. The island appeared to be literally torn in pieces, and the work of Removing the obstacle to navigation made comparatively easy. The estimated cost of the improvement is not far short of sl,000,000. The object of all the work is to give a clear twenty-six-foot draft of water in Hell Gate, enabling the largest craft to enter in safety.