Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1886 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE BAET* Thk National Association of Commercial Travelers bold its annual convention at New York. J. 11. Trask, of St, Louis, Was elected President for the ensuing year. Edward C. Z. Judson, better known as “Neddßunthne," died of heart disease, at Btamford, New York, last week, aged 64. He was bom in Philadelphia. His father, who was a lawyer, tried to make a lawyer of the son, but at 11 years of age he run away after receiving a flogging and shipped as cabin-boy in a vessel that sailed around the Horn. The next year he entered the navy as an apprentice on board a man-of-war, and a year later, when 13 yean old, was commissioned' a midshipman by President Van Bureu for meritorious conduct in rescuing the crew of a boat ran down by a Fulton ferryboat on Fast River. Yonng Judson was assigned to the Levant. Other midshipmen refused to mess with him because he had been a common sailor before the mast, and while on the way to join the Gulf squadron he fought seven of them, one after another,, in Florida, New Orleans, and Havana, escaping without a scratch himself, but marking four of his antagonists for life. From that time on he had the reputation of being one of the best shots in the United States. During the rebellion he served as a chief of ecouts, and has since then borne the title of Colonel, Judson was- widely known as a writer of wild tales of adven-1 tare. His first story, “The Captain’s Pig,” was published in the Knickerbocker Magazine under the pseudonym of “Ned Buntline” in 1838, when he was in his 15th year. This sketch brought notoriety to the young writer and fighter, w ho subsequently received as high as $60,000 a vear for the product of his braih and pen. For many years his annual income from story-writing was $20,000. He once earned $12,500 in six weeks, and at another time, under pressure, wrote a book of 610 pages in sixtv-two hours, scarcely sleeping or eating Turing that time. He did not know exactly how many stories he had written, but estimated them at between 300 and 400, each long enough for a book. Samttel K. Gat, Chief Clerk in the Pension Office at Pittsburgh, lias embezzled from $16,000 to $20,000 and fled to Canada. He was a leader in the Murphy temperance movement and Young Men’s Christian Association.... The New York Agricultural Terra Cottn Company's works in Ravenswood, N. Y., were damaged $60,000 or $70,000 by fire.