Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1886 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

, THK EAST. horse Gen. Butler is dead. He ww 30 years of age, and was in his day one of the most famous trotters in the { country. He took part in ninny notable contests against such flyers as‘Lady Thorne and George M. I'atchen. and at Chicago, Sept. 22, 18G6, was the contending horse against the Western crack. Cooley, when William McKecver, his driver, wits murdered in the gathering shadow* of the back-stretch by some one who bad pools on the other horse, and who sliovod a board oat over tbe fence as McKecver passed, crushing his skull .. .On yarrant* issued by Recorder Smyth. the police of New York arrested thirty men for boycotting a clothing-house... The rolling-mill of Oliver Brothers & Phillips, in Pittsburgh, shut down because of n demand for increased pay. _ ’ w An astronomer at Phelps, X. Y., has discovered a new comet. .. .Three shares of New York Tribune, stock Were sold at New York to J. B. Beach, who bid therefor $6 ,GOO per share. It is stated that he made the purchase in behalf of Whitelaw Reid. A PETITION for a pardon for James D. Fish, of Marine Bank notoriety, ic being circnlnted at New York, and has roceived the signatures of prominent persons. : r;A meeting of citiwus at Albany, N. Y., protested against, the utterances of Jefferson Davis at Mongomery. The gathering sung "John Brown's Body.” The Grand Juiy at New York returned a presentment condemning boycotting ns n “cursed exotic,” and urging the press, the bench, the bar, and the Legislature “to aid in exterminating the hydra-headed monster.” The‘Executi ve Board of the Empire Protective Association—Joseph R. O'Donnell, Andrew J. Best, James K. Graham, _ James F. Downing aud John Hughes—were indicted, and eace gave bail in the sum of $1,000... .A fire at Natjck. Mass., destroyed the Summer Street Hotel nnd three boot and shoe factories, the loss being $60,000.