Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1887 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. The Supreme Coart of Pennsylvania has held an express company liable tor the fall amount of a lost package, having given no explanation of the failure to deliver.... By the explosion of a dynamite cartridge in a 'shaft of the new Croton fqueduct at Merritt’s Corners, New York, two men were killed and five others were seriously injured. A Nkw-Yobkkb has invented a “vacuum car" with which to navigate the air.... George Clark, the millionaire land-owner and bop-dealer of Springfield, Otsego County, N. Y„ has failed. The police in New York arrested 300 storekeepers and clerks for sweeping dust into the street. Each was fined or severely lectured. A story comes from New York to the effect that the death of Eliza Weathersby. the wife of Nat Goodwin, was the result of the doctors' blunder, the allegation being that they killed her by an unnecessary operation. The case will probably be developed in the civil courts, Mr. Goodwin having refused to pay the doctors’ bi 115.,.. Twenty pereons were injured by the explosion of a rotary rag-boiler in a papermill at Paterson, N. J. One is dead or dying, and seven others are very seriously hurt. _________