Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1886 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. _ Ok* of the Anarchist strikers in New York City the other da? tw arrested for placing an obstruction in the way of the Third avenue cars. He had a fair trial before an intelligent jury, and was found guilty end sentenced to the penitentiary for sis months by the Judge. It is said that the striker was very much astonished at his sentence, but it is also said that there have been no farther obstructions to the business of the toad. A little firmness and promptness in enforcing the laws is all that is necessary to protect business and property. AT the dose of an all-night meeting of the District Assembly, Knights of Labor, at New York, the action of the strect-car strikers in refusing to accept the terms of the Third Avenue Company was indorsed, and the resignations or Joseph O’Donnell, John Hughes, and Joseph F. Downing, members of the Executive Committee, were requested, tendered,and accepted.. Emily Burton, a colored resident of Newport, R. L, has been sentenced to imprisonment for life for complicity in the murder of her father. The new iron bridge being built at Lyons dole, Lewis County, N. Y,, gave way, precipitating seven workmen and a wreck of twisted iron into Moose River, twenty feet below. Two men escaped by jumping on a pier. One workman, in leaping to an abutment, lost his footing and was fatally injured. The others swam ashore, although some of them had sustained severe injuries .... Ferike Fernandez, a rich Cuban residing at Hawthorne, N. J., was lulled by his wife, who instantly took her own life.