Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1886 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THS EAST. > The banking firm of Lee A Browu. at Saranac, Mich., is reported to have collapsed, and that Brown has fled to Canada. The liabilities, due to workingmen and farmers, are $30,000, with no tangible assets. Lee asserts that $6,000 worth of the Inn's paper is a forgery.... The business portion of Greenfield, Neb., was destroyed by fire, creating a loss of $40,000. The Unitarian Conference, in session at Saratoga, subscribed SII,OOO to help rebuild the Charleston churches. ...A severe frost damaged vegetation throughout northern New Hampshire and Vermont. In a riot between a party of drunken police and city officials in the Fifth Ward at Philadelphia William Powell was probably fatally shot, and Charles Petroff wits beaten until he was insensible and will probably die... .It is sjiid that Bartholomew, the fugitive President of the Charter Oak Life Insurance Company, has been. stealing right and left for years from the concerns in which he had been interested. Hartford banks, it is alleged, hold $2,000,000 of his paper, and the Schuyler Electric Light Company will lose $200,000. Johann Host's organ of anarchy in New York, the Freikcif, is in a dying condition, and the present editor says that if the circulation does not speedily increase the sheet “will be suspended, and the anarchists will be abandoned to their fate.”.... Bight Bev. J. F. Shanahan, Boman Catholic Bishop of the diocese, died suddenly at Harrisburg, Pa. In enlarging a cellar at Mahnnoy City, Pennsylvania, workmen found an earthen jar containing several thousand dollars in gold. The widow who owns the residence made the excavators surrender what they had pocketed. - -