Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1886 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. IT is alleged that tlio discovery lifts beejr nude that cracksmen intende<l a descent npon the rhilmlelphia Mint, and were preparing to tunnel into the structure from an adjacent house. The precious metals stored in the vaults of the mint are valued at between UP,OOO,WW to tMMNNMWft .. William 8. Nichols, a boy who twice se* Hie to a book-binding establishment in New York where 100 girls are employed, when arrested stated that he desired to born the building so that be would not hare to work there any longer. There were 141 failures in the United States reported to Bradjitrccf* during the week, against 200 in the preceding week. .. , ,In a foundry at . Miles Grove, Ta„ a shower of sparks fell upon Frank L. Nelson, the foreman, burning out l>oth his eyes ■Tames A. Richmond. President of the Broadway Surface Railway Company, was arrested in New York, on an indictment charging him With being connected with the Broadway franchise bribery matter. The Pemberton cotton mills, a cluster of large buildings on the bank of the river at Lawrence, Mass., were destroyed by lira. The loss was about $90,000; one life was lost. In 186(1 the factory was destroyed bv fire, after one large building, in which nearly 700 operatives were at work, had collapsed. The number killed outright or burned to death was lid, and 165 more were wounded.. „.: A party of South Americans were arrested in New York for living engaged in' preparing counterfeit bank notes with which to flood the Republic of Bolivia. The jiolice unearthed the plates from which the notes were printed, and about 200,0 ml in bogus Bank of Bolivia ?I0 notes The Hon.. John Welsh. who was Minister to England during the Hayes admiuislra- . tion. died at Philadelphia last week. _