Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1886 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THU EAST. The Presidents of the anthracite coal companies held a meeting at New York and decided to limit the output for the present year to 33,500,000 tons. The price was also advanced twenty-five cents. h j „ Ex-I’kesident Arthur has declined the Presidency of the Grant Monument Association, of New York, It has just developed at Uniontown. Pa., that Capt. A. 0. Nutt, whp was murdered by Dukes, who in turn was killed l>y his victim's son, was short in his accounts ns State Treasurer, $42,500 at the time of his death. The question of settlement of the estate led to the disclosure.... Near Reading, Pa., Mrs. Henry Franke, in attempting to kindle a fire with coal-oil, caused an explosion which scattered the blazing flui«l on the woman and her two children and fired the premises. Mrs. Franke ran to a cistern, jumped in nnd was drowned, and the children were fatally burned before assistance arrived. - ’ ' The weekly statement of the New York banks shows a decrease of over $11,000,000 in deposits, and states the surplus reserve at $13,533,043. The Treasury Department is about to disburse $17,000,000 for interest and called bonds. The clearings of the Chicago banks for the week were $42,$05,000. _______