Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1887 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. Miss Shafer, the possessor of * luxuriant head of hair, was seized at her boms in Pittsburg by a peddler, who compelled “her to inhale chloroform, and while she was unconscious cut off her tresses close to her head. The Bethlehem Iron Works Company of Pennsylvania has been awarded the contracts for furnishing to the Navy Department 1.400 tons of steel gun forgings and 4,500 tons of steel armor plates, at a total cost of f 4.512.938. Mrs. Sarah E. Howe, the Boston female of 'Woman's Bank fame, has absconded with $50,000 belonging to other people. A MOB broke open the door of the Chrl •office, at Troy, N. Y., and wrecked the place. The mob smashed everything. Type was strewn about the room, frames broken, and forms wrecked. The raiders had their faces blackened so their identity could not be ascertained. Charles B. Conant, the editor, was pounded and kicked after the office had been sacked. Recently the Girl has been noted for the virulence of its attacks on the Knichts of Labor, and Conant claims that he recognized several of the attacking party as members of the order.... Two of the wealthiest Episcopal churches in New York—Grace and Trinity—are to have free pews. The pews already sold are to be purchased by the churches and opened to the public.... The Mayors of Pittsburgh and Allegheny have refused to license John L. Sullivan's exhibition.