Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1886 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

TOE EAST. The death of Major General W. S. Hancock, which occurred on Governor's Island on the 9th inst., was caused by a carbuncle on the neck, which had for some days kept him in lied. He was bom in Pennsylvania in 1824, served with distinction in the Mexloan campaign, was promoted for gallantry at Fredericksburg, and was second in command on the bloody field of Gettysburg, where he was severely wounded. In 1880 he was the Democratic candidate for Presi--1 dent James Scott, engineer and architect, has been arrested at New Haven, Conn., for defrauding his employer, Wilson Waddingham, a California millionaire, out of $50,000. Scott, who was supervising the erection of a residence for Mr. Waddingham, claims that merchants have been involved in the swindle, as they charged one-third more than the regular pries for articles purchased, dividing the “extras” with Scott... .Notices have been posted in almost all of the cotton mills of New Bedford, Concord, Manchester, and Lowell of a general advance of 10 per cent, in wages from March 1. The remains of General Hancock were on Saturday, the 13th inst., escorted by regular troops to Trinity Church, New York, where funeral services were conducted by Rev! Morgan Dix. A special train conveyed the cortege to Norristown.’ Pennsylvania, and the casket was placed in the vault. Mrs. Hancock has received telegrams of condolence from Samuel J. Tilden, the Governors of various States, and numerous military officers of high rank.

Michael Doran, a shoemaker at Weymouth, Massachusetts, who for three years has lived apart from his wife, prayed that a curse might rest upon her, and then deliberately cut her throat with a razor... Laura Don, the actress, died last week at Greenwich, New York, Owing to the strike, the scarcity of coke is such that furnace men are offering largo figures to procure a supply. Members of the coke syndicate say that if consumers were willing a month ago to pay a slight advance for the article the coke men would have raised the laborers’ wages and the strike would thus have been averted. The banking of furnaces at this time will he ruinous to the owners. Charles Hermann, who recently murdered bis wife at Buffalo, was hanged last Friday. He made a detailed confession of his crime.... Heavy rains flooded the Delaware River, and a portion of Trenton, N. J., was submerged, the water in some instances reaching to the seeond stories of houses. Many bridges were swept away, and travel on the Pennsylvania Road, between Trenton and New York was suspended. The damage in Boston and vicinity by the recent flood is estimated at 81,000,000. The police boats supplied food and fuel to families driven from their houses. Tremont street was entirely under water from the car stables at Lenox street to a point above Cabot street. Considerable damage was done in the vicinity of Baltimore and Washington by a rise in the Potomac and Susquehanna' Rivers. All over the country high water and serious damage by flooding is reported. The remains of Gen. Hancock were, on the morning of the 13th inst., escorted by a detachment of 200 regulars from Governor’s Island to Trinity Church, New York, where Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix held brief services. The pall-bearers were Gens. Sherman, Sheridan, Schofield, Franklin. Fry, Terry, Miles, Newton, Wilcox, Walker, and W. F. Smith; and Secretary Bayard. After the services the steel casket > was borne to the hearse by eight nou-commis-sioned officers, and the cortege made its way to the Jersey City ferry, where a special train was in waiting. At Philadelphia, Governor Pattison and staff and 150 members of the Loyal Legion joined the cortege. Norristown was reached at. 3 o’clock, when the casket was deposited'in the vault with a salute of thirteen guns.... The night express on the Ontario and Western Railroad ran into a wash-out near Liberty, N. Y., killing the engineer and fireman and seriously injuring a number of others.