Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1885 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

the Cast. The East Atlantic coast was visited by a' destructive storm on the 24th of November, accompanied by one of the highest tides ever known. A New York dispatch says: “Old river men in this city compared the tide to the disastrous rise of the rivers in 1854. Great discomfort, damage to property, and delay to business were caused by the submerging of slips, streets, and piers, and the flodding of basements and cellars. Ferry-boats stood so high in the slips that teams could hardly get aboard. Along the Jersey coast the storm was especially severe. Sandy Hook was inundated and the Government station was in danger of falling. The Southern New Jersey Railroad tracks were submerged. Two fine summer cottages at Seabright were swept into the Atlantic. Few steamers and no sailing vessels attempted to cross'Sandy Hook bar to go to sea. Off Ocean. Beach the ship Malta, from Antweip for New York, stranded early in the-morn-ing. One sailor jumped overboard and was drowned. The other thirty-three members of the crew were rescued by the life-saving crew. Walks and beach improvements at Ocean Grove, Deal Beach and Atlantic City are submerged and damaged. Houses are undermined all along the Shrewsbury River and many families have had to leave their homes. All along the east shore the docks aresubmerged. In Jersey City sewers and basements were flooded. Prisoner? in the City Prison had to stay in their sleeping bunks to keep put of the water. A sewer in South street .burst, flooding the cell are of the finest residences on the Heights. The railroad depot floors were under water, and improvised bridges were laid for passengers to walk on. Most of Coney Island was submerged. The Brighton race track was flooded and the races were postponed. The water is six feet deep on the SWtepshead Bay boulevard. Hotel property on the island is flooded, but will probably not be seriously damaged. The contour of the beach will, however, be much chaug d by washing away, and the damage to shoi 3 improvements is serious. Every hous and summer resort bordering on Flushing Bay is more or less damaged. It iff estimated that the losses will foot up into the millions.” Bail to the amount of $(>0,000 each has been given by William S. Warner and J. Henry Work, indicted for complicity with Ferdinand Ward in defrauding the Marine Bank of New York of $70,336.75. The penalty for the offense is a temi of from five to ten years in the Penitentiary.... The West Shore Road was sold at NewbUrg to J. Pierrepont Morgan, Chauncey M. Depew, and Ashbel Green for $22,000,000.... .The residence of Jay Cooke at Chelton Hills, Pa., was robbed of diamonds and jewelry valued at $2,200... .The exports of product from New York for the week were valued at nearly $5,700,000. Cybfs W. Field resigned a Director - , ship in the New York and New England Road and flung his stock upon the market because the bid made by himself and Russell Sage for $1,800,000 of second-mortgage bonds was rejected by the State of Massachusetts. The protest made by Field was answered by an excoriation by Governor Robinson Four children were killed and several wounded in Jersey City by the fall of a condemned four-story building at No. 44 Morris street. At a meeting of the Fenian Brotherhood in New York the Chief Executive was exonerated from censure for contributing SIOO to the destroyer of the Andre monu- . menl by a vote of 197 to G .The imports of general merchandise at New York for the week aggregated $6,700,492, exclusive of dry g00d5.... Three men were instantly killed and another received a fracture of the skull by an accident on the aqueduct now under construction above New York.