Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1887 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. An Altoona (Pa.) dispatch says a terrible accident happened at Bellefonte. A gang of bricklayers employed by the firm of Wenterine A Dixon, of Pittaburgh, were engaged in lining the stacks at Valentine’s furnaces, when the scaffolding on which they stood gave way, precipitating twelve men to the bottom of the stack, a distance of sixty-five feet. Five men were killed and two others fatally injured. The scaffolding had been weighted down with some eight thousand bricks., All the men killed were single, and were residents of Pittsburgh. An unknown three-masted schooner struck on the wreck of the English steamship’ Brinkburn, on Fenwick’s Island Shoals, mar Philadelphia, rolled over and sunk. The wreck of this English craft, which has been lying on the shoals for a year, having become detached from its original position, has drifted up and down the island, to the terror of all kinds of shipping. The loss occasioned by the sunken steamer this winter will amount to S3(M) ,000 to American vessels alone. The Marquis de Mores publishes in New York a prospectus of his Co-operative Meat Supply Company, and offers stock in the enterprise to laboring men. The capital stock is $10,000,000 divided into $lO shares, payable in five monthly installments •f $2 each. Basing the calculation on the assertion that an average family eats five pounds of meat daily, he figures for the holder of one shaie a daily profit of 5 cents, or at least $18.25 a year, and a cash dividend besides of 21 per cent, or $2.10 a year. He estimates that $2,500,000 is necessary to start a business of twenty-five ear loads daily,.. .Carl Schurz slipped and fell in New York City and dislocated his hip... .Gen. B. F. Butler dislocated an arm in alighting from a car in Philadelphia. ... .Six lads Walking on the railroad track near Easton, Pa., were killed by a coal train.