Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1887 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. The N»w York Presbytery adopted resolutions emphatically declaring the Scriptarea and New Testament are the word of God. The preamble recited that “loose views touching the inspiration of the Holy Scriptures have become current in certain parte of the'Christian Church,” i William T. Brigham, a prominent lawyer of Boston, has been arrested for the embezzlement of $17,000 from two old ladies for whom he was trustee. He invested the money in anon-paying enterprise in the South... .lames W. Foshay, indicted for bribery in connection with the Broadway Railway Tranchise, has just died at New York. Maggie Beadling, the IC-yenr-old bed-ridden daughter of a miner at Hanksville, Pa., announced last November that at 2 o'clock p. m. February 17, IBH7, she would be restored to health. At the appointed hour she arose from her bed. flung aside her crutches, and danced about the room, to the amazement of a number of people who had gathered to witness the miracle. Captain Unger, who murdered Edward Bohle, cut up his body, and shipped it to Baltimore, was found guilty of manelaughter in the first degree, at New York, and sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment at hard labor. OFFICER Mclntyre, who was suspended in Philadelphia, entered and captured one of the police stations while drunk, and it was with the greatest difficulty that he was arrested. He had on h>s person eight loaded pistols, which he used freely on his brother officers, and it was not until a bullet took him in the arm that anything could be done with him.. . Lightning fired the cotton docks at Tompkinsville, Staten Istand. Two employes were killed by falling walls, and the estimated loss by the flames is $900,000 One of the Election Board of Scranton, Pa., was sent to jail in default of hail for tampering with the election returns..... The Emery Opera House at Titusville, Pa., valued at $30,000, was destroyed by tire.