Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1887 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE KANT. It ia believed that the deaths from the Foseet ,Uill (Mass.) railway accident will teach thirty. The condition of a number of the wounded is critical, and the recovery of many of the victims is doubtful. - The business house of Walter E. Lawton, dealer in fertilizers, at New York, was seised by the Sheriff on attachments for nearly $700,000. Lawtou has fled, taking with him all the money he could raise on his real estate ¥ notes of the Delta Azoton Company and other securities, nud also withdrew from different banks large'sums. besides taking money belonging to Ins bookkeeper and other employes. Lawton’s liabilities are said to exceed $.1,000,000... .Pierre S. Milon. an Italian who distinguished himself in Bonaparte's army, died in Philadelphia last week, in his one hundredth year. Cabi, Sohvrz, who broke his left thigh bone by falling in the street in New York, suffers intense pain. He gets little sleep, as it is necessary lor him to lie in one position and keep the left leg subject to tension to prevent it from shortening. The injured bone Was set .and held in place by plaster, which will not he removed until the bone knits. Mr. Scliurz's nge—he is 58 years old—will retard his recovery, and it will be at least a month before he can leave his bed. and it will be several months before it will be safe for him to venture out. * Db. T. N. MuLauAhlix, Physician-m----chief of the Philadelphia Hospital, reports marvelous success in treating consumptive patients according to the formula of a French physician. Patients in the last stages of the disease Lave been given rectal injections of carbonic acic gas, specially prepared, and are dailv gaining flesh, strength, and courage. Their night-sweats and pains have vanished, and their appetittes have returned. Dr. McLaughlin believeß that at last a cure for consumption has been found... The New Richmond Hotel, at Buffalo, and adjoining build ngs were burned eaily on the morning of the 18th inst. It is believed that at least thirty persons lost their lives in the hotel, while a number of others were burned or otherwise injured. The financial losses foot up $400,000... Fourteen days were consumed in a New York court in obtaining a jury for the trial of ex-Aider-man Cleary. The judge decided to sit twelve hours per day, with recess only lor lunch. Miss Constance Osbourne, an aspiring actress, horsewhipped Charles Burnham, the manager of the Star Theater in New Y'ork. She spent $695 in making her debut, receiveli in return $66, and attributed her failure to Burnham The schooner A. W. Thompson was run down by the steamer Idlewild in Long Island sound. Three of the crew were lost \V. E- Lawion, the New Work abscond r, has not been heard from. His confidential clerk, however, has followed him. and upon opening his safe it was found that Lawton had not left a dollar that could be used in the settlement of his personal flflfairp. , t rttiy>ns~nf Buffalo, in view of the obstructions offered to firemen by telegraph wires iu front of the Richmond Hotel, held a meeting and passed resolutions requesting the telephone company to move its cables immediately.