Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1887 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

i THE EANT. S. Anuier Chace, who nine years ego embezzled nearly $500,000 from A Fall River mill, of which he was treasurer, has been pardoned from the Massschnsetts penitentiary by Governor Ames, on account of impaired health. ’ John Gilman Clark, of Worcester, Mass., has given $1,000,000 to that city to fonnd a university, and has already petitioned the Legislature for an act of incorporation... .Prof. E. L. Youmans, the lemons writer and lecturer on scientific subjects, died in New Y’ork in his 00th vear. The heirs of Samuel J. Titden, while objecting to a legislative bill creating the Tilden trust, announce their intention to .deed to the city of New Y’ork the Gramercy park mansion and the books and papers at Grey stone, and endow a public library With $3,000,000 or more. Two children at Niagara Falls slid into a swollen sewer which rnns under the town and empties into the river near the whirlpool. They were ten minutes in making the dark passage, but were rescued by men at the outer end, secured by ropes. Altbqugh apparently lifeless, the little ones were 1 resuscitnted..Small-pox continues to spread in New York and Brooklyn, and ] an epidemic is feared. The disease so far Las been confined to the tenement districts. ../..Edward Evans, one of England's champion sluggers, has arrived in Yew York, and announces his readiness to receive challenges. The trouble arising out of the refusal of the cigar firm of V. Martinez, Ybor A- Co., of New York, Ybor City, and Havana, to employ Cuban cigarmakt rs. culminated in a bloody riot at Ybor City, in the course of nhich the Cubans killed M. F. Martinez and fatallv wounded four other Knights of Labor. ' It is reposted that Henry Ward Beecher and Mark Twain contemplate the production of a joint novel, the preacher to supply the pathos and the joker the humor.