Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1885 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

TUB BAST; The Butera iron and steel market has been less active during the past week, although prices are firmly maintained. The weekly pig-iron output is estimated at 71,608 tons, whfie the idle capacity is 100,575 tons.... .A natural gas well,the second largest in the country, was “struck” near Canonsburg, Pa. The use of natural gas for domestic and manufacturing purposes at Pittsburg has displaced from 8,000 to 10,000 tons of coal daily..... In a Washington Township (Pa.) police court, Albert Southworth, the plaintiff in a suit, became so excited under a vigorous cross-examination that when he left the stand he fell dead....A severe storm prevailed along the Atlantic coast on the 13th inst, and for the first time in twenty-five years there were no arrivals at or departures from the port of New York. The tide at Rockaway Beach was the highest known for years. At Wilkesbarre, Pa., a church building in process of erection was blown down, and four men severely injure d. Consideiable damage was inflicted at Baltimore and other points. Five thousand persons witnessed the solemn obsequies of the late Cardinal McCloskey in the cathedral at New York, the surrounding streets and squares being thronged with people who could not gain admission. Archbishop Corrigan was the celebrant of the Pontifical requiem mass, and the rendering of the “Miserere" by the choir of 100, strengthened by the addition of 200 priests and boys, was highly impressive, surpassing, it is said, any choral singing ever heard in New York City. The sermon was preached by Archbishop Gibbons, of Baltimore, who extolled the life and sendees of the deceased prince of the church. After the bestowal of the episcopal absolution, the catalfaqueand casket were borne to the crypt under the high altar, where the remains were placed beside the body of Archbishop Hughes. FOUR men having the appearance of tramps begged food at the house of John and William Kester, twin on the outskirts of Siebertsville, Pa. The brothers were soon bound aud tortured, and when they definitely refused to surrender their money they were beaten to death,... Under a decree of the Supreme Gouri of New York, the Rochester and Pittsburg Railroad was sold to an attorney of the bondholders for $1,100,000. An express train on the Pennsylvania Road ran into a detached emigrant-car thirteen miles outside of Jersey City, killing nine persons therein and mutilating three others. Soon afterward a Lehigh Valley train dashed into the wreck, killing its' engineer and fatally injuring its fireman Lucius Graves, engineers Harvey, brakeman; and John Emerson, engineer, were killed in a collision on the Northern Railway, at Andover Plains, N. HAt a meeting of the Eastern flintglass manufacturers it was agreed to close their establishments at once rather than submit to the demand from their employes for an increase of wages The ironmills at Beading, Pa., are to resume at once.