Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1886 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE KAST. The jury in the cue of McQuade, the New York ‘•boodle" Aiderman, were disdunged by Recorder Smythe, of New York, being unable to agree. A motion ■was granted for a new trial, to begin immediately.... The Yale-Princeton championship foot-ball game was played at Princeton in a driving snow-storm, and resulted in a draw. -. . .The heavy cloth curtain which during the daytime covers the electric-light lenses on the Bartholdi Statue, caught fire and fell on the light woodwork of the staircase in the interior. It was only by hard work that the statue was saved from ruin.... Severe snow and sleet storms are reported in the East.... An important labor movement was consummated at Pittsburgh last week, It consists of the complete disbandment of the Miners and Mine-Laborers’ Amalgamated Association of the Monongah la Valley and the railroad mines in the Pittsburgh districts, which supply all the lake and Southern river ports with coal. As a result, the organization of the Knights of Labor has an accession to its ranks at one fell swoop of 9,000 men. Henry George will issue a weekly paper at New York to be named the Standard. in the beginning of 1887, It will be about the sizfTtif the Irish World. . ..The strike of tanners and curriers at Salem and Peabody. Mass., in which 5.000 men were involved, has been declared off for lack of financial support by the Knights of Labor... .William Herbst, President of the First National Bank nt Glen Rock, Pa., has been arrested for embezzling $"0,000. ... .In a barrel used last August George Hazelett and Sadie Alien made a voyage through the whirlpool rapidsTtt Niagara on Sunday last. The woman was seasick the entire trip. : •