Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1886 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

Till: EAST. "*■".■- - 1 AT West Stratford, Conn., Joseph Erase fatally wounded his wife with a dagger and then ended his life by throwing himself in front of an express train, which beheaded him... .President Green made his annual report to a meeting of the stockholders of the Western Union Telegraph Company. The year's revenues aggregated $16,298,638; the profits were $3,910,855, and the surplus is $4,309,834. Austin Corbin, Henry B. Hyde and John G. Moore were elected Directors. Mbs. Sarah E. Howe, the Boston' woman’s bank swindler, having served her term in prison, has opened a similar institution at the “Hub."....Near Newark, N. J., workmen unearthed a strong box containing $30,000 of canceled bonds of Kearney Township, New Jersey. Ten years ago the town treasurer had been accused of stealing $25,000, but he solemnly averred that he redeemed the bonds, which had been stolen from his office. The discovery clears up the mystery. A jury at Belvidere, New Jersey, convicted the janitor of the Hackettstown Seminary of the murder of a young colored girl who resisted his demands.... The legal fight for the Harlem Commons property in New York, valued at $30,000,000, will be begun within a few days by the filing of a bill in equity in the United States Court at New York. There are 1,400 claimants, but of these it is said that not over 500 will be able to trace their lineage to the proper source... .A fire at Roseville, New Jersey, destroyed the Windsor Hotel, valued at $24,000. A laundress was burned to death.. The city of Eastport, Maine, suffered to the extent of about $200,000 by a conflagration. Wm. J. Sherman, the young Catholic priest who married Lillie McCoy, of Brooklyn. and then went into a monastic retreat to purge himself of contempt of the church, has given up that scheme and gone back to his wife. He now proposes to become a Baptist