Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1885 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. A YOUNG schoolmaster named Traher, at Numida, Columbia County, Pa., is charged with punishing talkative pupils by gagging them with corn-cobs and making them stand on the floor. It is said that when a child of Farmer George Snyder, thus treated, was relieved, the cob was covered with blood, and the boy was so exhausted as to require assistance on the way home. Snyder went ,in' search of Traher with a gun, but the young man had disappeared. It is feared that the boy will not recover... .Mayor Grace, of New York, claiming to have been libeled by the World. brought suit for $50,000 against Joseph Pulitzer. The latter was arrested, and gave ,bail in the »sum of $5,000.... A steam tug exploded at New York, the crew of six men being killed.... The glass in windows for squares around was sjiattered. Henry B. Hobton, the inventor of the calendar clock and the audiphone, died at Ithaca, N, Y... .A party of seven robbers blew open the safe in the banking-house of Bentel & Co., at Freedom, Pa., obtaining $12,000 in currency and bonds. Giant powder was used, shattering the windows and walls. Flames followed the explosion, by which several thousand dollars in money was burned. Citizens who flocked to the acene were kept at bay by a fusillade from revolvers.« The steel cruiser Chicago was launched from the Roach shipyard at Chester, Pa. The ceremony of christening was performed by Miss Edith Cleburne, of Philadelphia, who broke a bottle of wine over the bow and liberated a canary, an Irish' linnet, and an 0ri01e..... Two cable train® on the Brooklyn Bridge Railway collided, and several pepple were hurt. The grip slipped.