Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1885 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. Petitions are in circulation in New York to abolish the postoffice in Brooklyn and place the mails for that city under the Erisdiction of the New York office.... The terocean Improvement Company, a Chicago concern, with a capital of $1,000,000, has filed articles at New York. It will build and equip elevated and surface roads. Eight thousand persons gazed on the dead face of John McCullough the actor, in St. George’s Hall, Philadelphia, and fully 10,000 people could not gain admission to the structure. The religious services were conducted by the Rev. Robert Hunter, hymns being sung by Miss Bertha Ricci and Mr. W. H. Morton. The collection of flowers, ferns, and palms was beautiful and tasteful. The remains were interred according to the rites of the Elks ,in Monument Cemetery Benjamin Franklin bequeathed £I,OOO to the town of Boston in 1791, to accumulate for a centary, when £IOO,OOO was to be expended in some important public work. It has been decided to devote $350,000 to the purchase of West Roxbury Park... .A misplaced switch caused the wrecking of a Baltimore and Ohio passenger train near Pittsburgh, Pa. No one was killed, but between fifteen and twenty persons were more or less injured. Congressman Boyle was one of the victims.

Sidney Dillon, of New York, has subscribed SI,OOO to the Grant monument fund. He expressed at the same time a hope that other members of the association who could afford it would follow his example. The friends of Mr. Stead, the imprissoned editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, are making arrangements for a monster demonstration on his release from jail. It is reported that he will start a new paper as the organ of the social-purity movement, now carried on by a number of organizations Tinder the patronage of the Methodist Church... .The expulsion of Russian Poles from Prussia continues unabated. In one settlement alone 2,000 Poles were ordered to settle their affairs and at once ?uit Prussian territory forever. While russia is driving thousands from their homes Russia has issued an edict refusing to receive them unless they’ can proven that they were bom on Russian territory. Many of those expelled have resided in Prussia so long that they have forgotten their native language. Two wars are now being Wagedin the Old World. The Servians have invaded Bulgaria and the British have invaded Burmah. The Servians want to seize and annex a part of Bulgaria, because Southern Bulgaria has annexed itself to Northern Bulgaria. The British covet Burmah for the additional trade it will give them and the trade route it will afford them into China.

"With the recovery of his voice Mr. Gladstone has apparently recovered all his intellectual adroitness. Because of a quarrel with her husband Mrs. Albert Fritz of. New York committed suicide after killing her two little children. ... .John a Philadelphia lad 13 years of age, killedffiimself with rat poison because he had wasted a week's wages in dissipation and feared disgrace. Horace Brigham Claflin, whose reputation as one of the greatest merchants of New York extended throughout the country and to Europe, died of apoplexy recently at his country house at Fordham. Mr. Claflin was in his 74th year.