Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1887 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

Tin: east. At Pittsburgh last wwk the temperataue row to 95 degrees—the highest ever known there in May.... A switch-engine exploded . at New Haven, Conn., badly wounding six persons, and wrecking the ronnd-houae and two other looomotiTes. A terrific thunder-storm, accompanied by heavy hail and wind equal to a hurricane, swept over the Allegheny Mountains in Somerset and Bedford Counties, Pennsylvania, canaing great destruction to property... .Peter Smith was hanged in New York City for the murder of John Hannon. Thomas A. Edison, the electrician, has returned to New York from Florida, thoroughly returned to health.