Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1885 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. . A—Ik a contest at New York for S2OO a side, Frank Barrett opened 2,500 oysters and John Gillen 2,300 in two hours and eighteen minutes. A court in New York has rendered a decision that Miss Ellen King can not recover from innocent purchasers the value of bonds stolen from her residence .... Strikers assailed the miners ’who were going to work in the Old Eagle Mine, near Monongahela City, Pa., firing guns and revolvers in a reckless manner. The surprised miners fled for theft lives, and as they rushed down the hill-side some of them sustained painful injuries. The strikers also attacked the dwellings occupied by the “scabs,” demolishing the windows in twenty-five of them, but the inmates escaped unhurt. » Fire in One Hundred and Sixty-sixth street, New York, destroyed a dwelling occupied by Patrick Driscoll and his family. Driscoll, his wife, and one son escaped in a badly burned condition, but two youths, 17 and 14 respectively, and a girl aged 7, perished in the flames. Mat.com Hulbizeb, who went to the war from a Jersey town twenty-two years ago, and has since been mourned as among the dead, returned to his parents on Christmas night. He owns large beds of nitrates in Peru.... Cape Cod was visited by a severe gale which caused iguch damage and several casualties on shore and at sea.... About one hundred cigar-makers started from New York to take the place of Chinese in San Francisco.... A fire at Georgetown, Mass., destroyed the most of the village and killed two persons. The loss was $80,000.... Buffalo’s first cremation took place Dec. 27.