Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1886 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

: T»S M«T. The tte of natural gnu in the factories at Pittsburgh has thrown out of work about five thousand coal miners in that district ... Ex-Aiderman Waite, of New York, requested a commitment to the house of detention as a witness against the indicted aidermen. He had been so annoved by the public that he preferred to be locked up. He waa accommodated... In the trial of the seventeen Bohemian boycotters of Mrs. Landgraf, the New York baker, the jury brought in a verdict of guilty against six of them. Four of the prisoners were sentenced to ten days’ imprisonment and two of the most violent ones to thirty days, r The report that Jay Gould has been a loser to the tune of some S6,(KK),WX) in “Wabash" will posMbly be far from exciting profound sympathy in the breast of the great public. A few of those who regard themselves as his victims may even manifest an unchristian joy at the' thought that their loss is not his eternal gain... .Charles Marsh, the Boston dry-goods merchant, died from a stroke of paralysis, in his fiftyseventh year. Hi* estate is estimated nt *10,000,000, including life insurance for *250,000. A forest fire near Lancaster, N. H,, destroyed property to the value of $75,000. ....Henry Kirke Brown, the sculptor, died last week at his home in Newburg, N. ¥., aged seventy-two Carlisle D. Graham, of Buffalo, went through the whirlpool at Niagara in an oak barrel seven feet long, ballasted with cast-iron and a sandbag. He made the trip from the Cantalever bridge to Lewiston, seven miles, in half an hour. On reaching the whirlpool he opened the manhole and put out his hand, but concluded to be swept along until picked up by a boat.