Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1885 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. In answer to a letter from Mayor Grace, reciting that rumors were current to the effect that the remains of General Grant would in the near future be removed from their present resting-place, Mrs. Grant writes that Riverside was the choice of the General aadthe family; that it is near the dwelling Which she hopes to occupy until called to join her husband, and that the city unreservedly conceded the condition that after death she should have a place by the General’s side. Mrs. Grant’s decision should, therefore, set at rest all reports of intentions to disturb the hero’s tomb.... A Pittsburgh paper reports that the Standard Oil Company practically controls the Chartiers Natural Gas Company, recently formed, and that it means to absorb all the smaller concerns, its aim being to declare war against the Philadelphia Company.... The wife of Frank Gilmore, residing at Providence, gave birth to four children, who, however, died in a few hours. The mother is doing well. Otto Funk, well known in Chicago in connection with the theft of two thousand books from the public library, and who recently escaped from the insane asylum at Elgin, ended his career by poison in the jail at Cambridge, Mass., where he was placed for stealing an overcoat. He recently applied for admission to the divinity school of Harvard University, but was not received... .Six laundry girls were terribly burned by the explosion of a steam-drum in West Twenty-fourth street, New York. At the faith cure convention in session in Buffalo, N. Y., a number of addresses were made, and a feature of the occasion was the anohying with oil of seventy-five persons who came to be cured of various maladies... .The New England Tobacco Growers’ Association met at Hartford and adopted resolutions opposed to the present tariff on tobacco and in favor of amending the same so as to impose a tariff of $1 per 1 pound on all imported wrapper leaf.... Ferdinand Ward, the New York banker, who wrecked the firm of Grant & Ward and absorbed the fortune of Gen. Grant and his sons, was sentenced to the Peniten- . tiary for ten years and at once taken to Sing Sing. ...The budget of New York City for current expenses for 1886 will amount to $36,054,325, a decrease of $6,000,000 from a year ago... .The works of the National Furnace Company, Williamsport, Pa., were burned. Loss, $40,000.