Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1886 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. While Mrs. Albert Neff was planting vegetables in her garden, at West Newtou, Pa., the house caught fire and before she could rescue ber four children, who were sleeptng irp-stairs, they -were tembly burned. Two of the little ones are expected to die . The six-story building Noe. 58 to 66 Crosby street. New York, was damaged by fire to the amount of SIOO,OOO. It whs occupied mainly by importers of dry goods. Bartholdi’s colossal statue of Liberty will be unveiled in the harbor of New York next September. The lost stone in the pedestal was laid last week. New Jersey doctors are put to their wits’ end over the case of a boy. Thomas Smith, who is suffering fronWiydrophobia. but who was never bitten by a mad dog. The bov’s sister Nellie was bitten, and it so worried* him that he took thej malady out of sympathy. It takes four men to hold him during his ravings. .. . A New York Treasury agent discovered that the Government had recently been defrauded out of about $70,000 in duties on German cloths on account of undervaluations... The stove foundry of Rogers A Co., of Buffalo, employing five hundred men. shut down on account of the labor troubles throughout the country X . By the burning of a railroad boarding-house near the famous Kiuzua viaduct, in Pennsylvania, six Italian laborers lost their lives. .. .Gen. Grant's tomb was hid from sight by-piles of Eastern flowers, sent by many friends. The Grant monument fund now amounts Jo $120,648.75.... A Kansas idea has planted itself in Massachusetts. Arbor Day has been inaugurated in the Bay St^te.