Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1886 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

.mG BAST. ' JtrDOS Nott created a sensation in the County Court at Albany, N. Y., by announcing that Superintendent McEweu, of the Albany Penitentiary, had offered him a bribe of SSO for every long-term prisoner sent to that prison.... In a suit tried at Philadelphia, the Central TransjKiriation Company obtained judgment for $110,729 against the Pullman Palace Car Company. Providence, R. I„ celebrated on Wednesday, the 23d of June, its 250th anniversary with a procession, speeches, aitipinp of school children, and other exmmuJmmm’ m , .Judge Stanley Matthews, of the United States Supreme Court, was married in New York to Mrs. Mary K. Theaker, of Cleveland, Ohio. The couple have sailed for Europe. In a hospital at Buffalo, in the case of a woman with a ing was made into the stomach, through which food is passed directly.... .New York dispatch: Ex-President Arthur has gone to New London, (V>nn. He was accompanied by his son Allan, his sisters ( Mrs. McElroy and Mrs. Caw), Miss Nellie Arthur and her maid, and Dr. Mr. Arthur walked through the railway station leaning on the arm of his son. be stepped up to the platform alone, but slipped and nearly fell at the top step. Recovering himself he entered the car. The ex-President looked pale and worn. Several friends came to a good-by. To one of them he said: “My y trouble is my stomach." Then he added, laughingly: “You know how good that used to be. ” In reply to a question bis physician said that his patient was progressing favorably, and without doubt would be benefited by'a change of air: Mayor Grace removed General Alexander Shaler from his position as President of the Health Board, and forwarded to Governor pill, for his approval, a copy of the evidence and findings in the case tried before him, in which General Shaler was charged with receiving sbrilie for his vote in favor of the purchase of certain armory sites while acting a 6 a member of the old Armory Board; Bomby, the big rhinoceros, just imported from Hamburg, died at the New York Central Park Zoological Garden last week. The cost $5,000, and was only ppl into his new quarters a few days previous. It was supposed to be the largest one in the world living in captivity. An affection of the lungs is supposed to have been the cause of death. A Providence, R. 1., dispatch reports a distressing accident, by which six lives were sacrificed. .E. G- farmer, his wife, Mary E., and daughter, Mamie, aged six; Mr. C. W. Girsch. wife, and two children, both men being members of the firm of Farmer, Girsch & Co., engravers and printers; also William G. Brayton, their traveling salesman, and his wife, went for a sail down the bay in the sailboat Wan- ' derer. They reached Bristol safely, and,, after a short stop, started toward Prudence Island. The wind was blowing strong, and Mr. Brayton, who was sailing the boat, was unable to manage the craft. NVhen entering Potter’s Cove the boat capsized, and six of the party were drowned. The four children were in the cabin, and were not again seen alive.