Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1886 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. Tbtxb A. Rattioan, editor of The Herald, at Millerstown, Pennsylvania, was horsewhipped by a dozen members of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, whom he had treated in an objectionable way in his newspaper. On Jone 28 a mail pouch destined for St. Louis, Containing $20,000 in money, and bonds, checks, and other papers, valued at $60,00Q, was stolen between New York and Pittsburgh. Postal clerks, who have since left the service, are suspected. The yacht Sarah Craig, which left Atlantic City with a pleasure party of sixteen ladies and gentlemen, was oapsized off Sandy Rook, and the following persons perished in the storm: Mrs. Cora E. Askins, Mrs. T. Stevens, Miss Mamie Stevens, Emma Merritt, Chester Clark, Miss Maud E. Rettew, and Miss Rebecca Merritt.... Henry Pnnsley suicided in Brooklyn by severing the arteries of his wnst. He left a note which said: “It makes me laugh to think I am lying here dying in this miserable condition while I have a brother a millionaire."... .A Baptist church at Pottsville, Pa., was blown up with dynamite as a matter of revenge against the Law and Order Society.. ..Hre destroyed the Indian Orchard Mill Company’s cotton factory at Springfield, Mass.; loss, $300,000.