Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1886 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. Th® Massachusetts Legislature has passed a bill appropriating $20,000 for entertaining President Cleveland, should he visit that State during the summer..... Frank H. Brown, a prominent grain merchant of Boston, has been held in $30,000 bail for forging bills of lading. A. P. Thomton, once a respectable attorney in New York, was arrested for swindling various firms by means of bogus checks... .The graduating classes of Yale and Harvard Universities numbered respectively 336 and 223. WHEN the convicted boycotters of Theiss, the proprietor of a concert garden, were arraigned in court at New York for sentence, says a dispatch from that city, Judge Barrett made some strong remarks to them on the lawlessness of the crime of which they were convicted. He said that this was a violation of peace in a country that welcomed foreignborn citizens. They had violated public, rights and opinions, and their offense was not short of blackmail. The distribution of circulars before places of business was conspiracy, and punishable as such. Their conduct, if unpunished, would lead to savagery. They may have been misled by bad advice, bnt their counsel should have rebuked them. They did not use the money for their own advantage, and this palliated their offense. He would not impose the full penalty of the law, as they were workingmen. The Judge then sentenced Paul VViltzig and Henry Holdorf to two years and ten months at hard labor; Michael Stroh and Julius Rosenberg to one year and six months imprisonment. Daniel Danenhauser, the most violent of any of the boycotters, got three years and eight months in State Prison.. . Ten men were killed and as many more injured by the explosion of giant-powder works near Drakesville, N. J.