Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1887 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

TMK BANT, is Allegheny City, Pa., a grocery borne lb deployed by Are and two men were suffocated in the burning building, end two otbera were fatally injured by jumping bom window*. * A collapse of pillars In a colliery at Ashland, Pa., resulted in a fall of coal, accompanied by a volume of gas. Fire men and six males were suffocated.... The Holton Dyeing, Printing and Blenching Company's mills, at Broxdale, near New York City, were damaged by explosions and by Are to the extent of $130,000. A LAD named Defreitus, who recently leaped from the Brooklyn bridge, was sent to prison for three months. Jakes N. Taggart, paying teller of the Union Trust Company at Philadelphia, who disappeared about April 18, proves to have embezzled SIOO,OOO of the company's funds.. . .By the great floods in the Kennebec River in Maine millions of feel of lumber were swept into the sea.