Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1886 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

TBK MW. The Webster Historical Society unveiled ft statue of the great orator at Concord, N. H., Thursday. Senator Evarts, Oen. Butler, Robert C. Winthrop, Congressman Bingham, of Pennsylvania, and Richard Olnev, of Boston, made speeches.... A banking-house conducted by John A. Veach A Sons, at West Middlesex, Pa., has been eloeed by the Sheriff. Their liabilities are believed to be in excess of SIOO,OOO. The wrecked bank of Fletcher A Sharpe, of Indianaoolis, axil be enabled to jiav a second dividend of ten per cent, by the sale of its offloes and the residences of the partner*. O. B. MaTTESON, of Cticn. N. Y., once ft conspicuous figure in the politics of that State, has suddenly regained hia sight, after four yean of blindness, and has left for a fishing tour in the Adiroudaoks... .Fire destroyed Sperry A Barnes’ packinghouse *at New Haven, Conn. Loss, $300,000 to $400,000. Thb New York Board of Trade and Transportation has declared in favor of the butterine bill passed by „the House of Representatives. The reason given for 1 this action is stated to be that “local efforts to compel the honest sale of butter substitutes have proved inadequate on account of tbe interstate character of the trade nnd inadequate means in many parts of the country to prevent its fraudulent sale.'' The Board believes it to be to the interest alike of produceis, consumers, and honest dealers that the bill should become a law. ■Under the new law of New York against imprisonment for debt, the authorities at Long Island City released Henry S. De Bevoise, ex-Mayor, who had lain, in jail for three years because of his inability to meet a judgment for $100,700 obtained against him by the city. __

only man in Washington who understood how to handle the locks of the Treasury Department. His immediate restoration to the pay-i Oil was a necessity .. Archibald Forbes, the war correspondent of the London ,\Vir«, was married in Washington to Miss Louisa, daughter of' General M. C. Meigs. 4 „; - ■ f