Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1886 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

TUB EAST. Ex- Senator Simon; Cameron celeliratcd hi* 88th birthday at Harrisburg, Pa., March 9. He received nunicrou* personal and telegraphic congratulntidfis. . . The committee of the New York Senate which investigated the Broadway railroad charter unanimously re|>orted that it was procured bv bribery, and recommended that swift justice be dealt the guilty parties. Four bills have been prepared to restore , the franchise and preqterty to its rightful owners, 8 . A STEAM' tugboat exploded in Boston harbor, being comdletely demolished. There vrere five' nieh bn her, alTof, whom were instantly killed.... The Governor- of Massachusetts granted a respite for One month to Allan Adams, the Amherst murderer. l>ecanse he is too weak to stand upright on the gallows. An aged inmate of the almshouse near Lebanon, Pennsylvania, threw paris green into a huge kettle of coffee. by .which, .one hundred persons were poisoned, ten or more of them fatally. The Secretaiy of •State of New Jersey ordered the Dime Savings Bank of New Brunswick to close its dobra. There arc rumors that Arthur ,'G. Ogilby. the. Treasurer, ia A defaulter for SBO,OOO. Andrew .1. Backus, a business man of North End, Pa., while eating sausage on a wager was. choked bv the u*e«e. and died under a surgical operation Fire Chief Mahady was thrown from his bu.-gy at New York, and was killed by falling under the wheels of a'fire .engine. While rehearsing a drama at Turner . Hall, Pittsburg. Sunday evening. John Egeder was accidentally ami fatally shot by A. Welder./. .A brutal prize-fight was fought Sunday morning at Rye, just on the border-line between New York and t'onnec-■'UcW'Jack'li(mq)Bey-.'or"Nrw' York, in thirteen bitterly contested rounds established his superiority as a slugger over George Le Blanche, of Boston, and was awarded the stakes of $2,000 and a;purse of m much more.