Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1886 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

TBRE HAST. 'lt Km been Mcertained'that the children in the Mercer (Pa.) Soldiers* - " Orpheus’. Home were brutally ill-treated and'start ed; the boy* in some instances fighting for bones and refuse meat that had beeti thrown into a swill-tub. Intimacy of the attendants with the older girls in the institution is also charged. i " In the Pittsburgh crematory, by the use of natural ..gas, the remains of Milton Fisher were reduct'd to nuhgs in less than an hour .. The Gorman heirs of George Rapp have instituted proceedings in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, to bring al>out a division of property of the Harmonist Society, estimated to be worth $17,000,000.. The referee in the case of I'crdiii ard ami William S. Warner filed his report, at New York, which finds that $1,395.752.54 is dne Ward's assignee by Warner. Who, with his wife, is directed to yiake out the necessary conveyances and releases within thirty days, lx New Y’ork. Aiderman- Henry W. Jaehne was arrested charged with having received A bribe, in consideration of which he voted for the franchise to build a street railroad in Broadway, after the resolution had been vetoed by the Mayor. Jaehne was released in $20,000 bail. The affair and rumors were afloat of the arrest of a number of other Aidermen.. A dispatch from Scitunte. Mass., reports the death of Miss Abigail Bates, one of the two heroines who in the war of 1812 drove away the by playing aTHe” and" "(ItllTtF lU" "tiie" bushes. . .......... .- ' ■ Leaking natural gas exploded at Murraysville, Pa., fatally burning three persons aortransinr the destr net ten irtrtire of seven • dwellings. The McWilliams well also caught fire, and at last accounts was burning fiercely, and fears were expressed that the flames would reach other gas Wells. At Albany, N. Y., there are fears that the Capitol Building may collapse at any time. The costly structure is pronounced a Standing disgrace to the Empire State.... A Mr. Snyder and his wife, living near East Aurora, N. Y., were chloroformed by burglars, who secured $2,500 in cash, which Mr. Snyder had drawn from the batik to purchase land... .General Thomas Swords, of the regular army, and stationed at New Y’ork, is dead.... Ex-Senator Emson was horsewhipped by a school-teacher, Miss Louise Blackman, near Trenton. N. J. He was charged with circulating reports derogatory to her character. ™w-