Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1887 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

TUB EAST. Secretary Manning Has been electedPresident of the new Western National Bank of the city of New York.... .John C. Leighton,*!-Clerk of the Municipal Criminal Court at Boston, is a defaulter for a large amount,* Rome placing it as high as 1800,000. He held the office for nearly twenty yeare, and was appointed last December,. but immediately resigned. At West Suffield, Conn., Rose Daly decapitated her illegitimate child, threw the head in a stove, and placed the body in a cellar. The head, which had been out off with a table knife, was taken from the fire in a cooked condition. Db. Howard Crosby lectured on temperance, Thursday night, before the students of the Theological Seminary at Rutgers College. He said he didn’t believe in the pledge, and created a great sensation by remarking that a man who could afford to drink claret with Ids beefsteak and refrained from using-tee wine was a fool..Ex-Alderman O'Neil, of New York, one of the Broadway railroad jobbers, has been sentenced to imprisonment for four and one-half years and ordered to pay a fine of SI,OOO.