Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1886 — THE NEWS CONDENSED, [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED,

THE EAST. Representative Abram Dowdney, of the Twelfth Nett York District, died nt hie home in New York City. This swells to twelve the death-list of the Forty-ninth Congress. ~ r x V. R. Chamberlain, the noted porkpacker of New England, has been <onvicted of perjury, and has taken an appeal to the Massachusetts Supreme Court Henry D. Garrett, a lawyer of New York, who is charged with appropriating $12,000 belonging to Mrs. Rosalie Carpenter, swallowed two ounces of nux vomica while being taken to court for trial. Physicians saveahis life.... William Rted, lormerly Treasurer of the South Bo>ton horse railroad, pleaded guilty to the charge of embezzling $160,000.. .. On the waters of Niagara River Alphonso King walked one hundred yards in a huge pair of tin shoes of his own invention, on a wager of $3,000 made in New York . . .. The Oil City Derrick, of Pittsburgh, Pa., has received a letter alleged to have been written by the notorious express robber, “Jim” Cummings, dated Yeungstown, Ohio, and postmarked Lafayette, Ind... .S. C. Hill, living near Pittsburgh, Pa., mistook his daughter for a burglar and shot her in the neck. She will probably die.,, .The Woodbury mill in East Cambridge, Mass., was blown to pieces by the explosion of the boiler; six men were badly injured, two of them almost beyond