People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1892 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. DOMESTIC. In the future the Carnegie Company at Homestead, Pa., intends to treat with its employes as individuals. Each man employed is required to sign an agreement in which he pledges himself to refrain from belonging to any labor organization and to be governed entirely by the rules and regulations of the company. The Order of Amitie, a beneficial organization in Philadelphia, has made an assignment. It had seventy lodges, 8,000 members, and has existed four years.

The Keystone bank robbers at Erie, Pa., who shot Assistant Cashier Koplcr October 3, were sentenced as follows: John Courtney, fourteen years; Charles W. Hawley, seventeen years in the penitentiary. A bulletin from the census office shows that out of a railway mileage for the world of 370,281 miles the United States has no less than 163,597 miles, or 41.18 per cent of the whole, and that the railway mileage of the United States exceeds by 3,493 miles the entire mileage of the Old World. Miss Lola Barnett and Mr. Kennecutt, both popular young people and engaged to be married, fell through the ice while skating near Nebraska City, Neb., and were drowned. John Volvosak was fatally injured and his wife killed in a runaway near Nashville, IIL At the national assembly in Champaign, 111., of the Farmers’ Mutual Benefit association resolutions were adopted favoring the free and unlimited coinage of silver, a graduated income tax and the election of United States senators by direct vote of the people. At the close of their annual meeting in St Louis the Knights of Labor adopted resolutions favoring the restriction of immigration to those with funds sufficient for a year’s support; restricting the ballot to those who can read and write; and that money should be issued by the national government only. On a kite-shaped track at Stockton, Cal., Stamboul trotted a mile in This beats«the world’s trotting record for stallions.

The annual report of the pension bureau says there are 865,087 names of pensioners on the rolls, an increase of 179,928 over the preceding fiscal year. Sylvester Critchlow, on trial at Pittsburgh for murder in the Homestead riot, was found not guilty. The Dubuque (la.) lumber mills have closed for the season. The cut of lumber, 66,000,000 feet, is the largest on record in that city. A lumber camp near Marshfield, Wis., was destroyed by fire, and two men were cremated and three others terribly burned. Flames in the large furniture factory and salesroom of Otis Corbett in New York caused a loss of 8500,000. Miss Libby Miller, of Elkhart, Ind., and a guest, Miss Josie Franklin, of Middletown, were struck by an engine at a crossing near Elkhart and killed. Mrs. Minerva Wright and John Hutchison while driving at Richmond, Ind., were struck by an electric car and fatally injured.

Fuller’s livery stable at St. Joseph, Mo., was burned, and twenty, horses, one % trotter valued at $15,000, "perished in the Hamess The historical Unitarian church at Plymouth, Mass., was destroyed by lire. In the belfry was a bell cast by Paul Revere in 1801. Ohio odd fellows have decided to build an orphans’ home to cost about $75,000. Robert Geradtng, an amateur bicyclist of Denver, Col., broke the world’s track and road record for 5 miles by 45 4-5 seconds. His time was 12:07. Flames among tobacco factories and other buildings in Lynchburg, Va., caused a loss of $150,000. The Hotel Zinzendorf, at Winslow, N. C., recently built by the West End Land Company at a cost of $140,000, was destroyed by fire. Three men and a boy were drowned at Lewiston, Wash., by the upsetting of a boat Jonasen’s jewelry store at Omaha was robbed of diamonds and watches valued at SIO,OOO. At the leading clearing houses in the United States the exchanges during the week ended on the 25th aggregated $1,108,600,048, against $1,398,798,448 the previous week. The increase as compared with the corresponding week of 1891 was 9.1. 'The works of the Michigan Forge & Iron Company at Detroit were burned, the loss being SIOO,OOO. In the United States during the seven days ended on the 25th the business failures numbered 203, against 210 the preceding week and 295 -for the corresponding time last year. James Fox, aged 12, and John and Kennedy Cotton, 11 and 9 respectively, were drowned while skating on the Fox river at Green Bay, Wis. Cashier B. J. Martin, of the Webster bank at Eupora, Miss., went into the vaults and helped himself to money and securities ranging from $15,000 to SSO ,000 and skipped. A panther made its appearance at Bopkins’ trading post in the Cherokee outlet and killed an Indian child in the presence of its mother. May Sams, a chambermaid, shot and instantly killed Capt Ransom Sampson at the Planter’s hotel in Cairo, 111., then fatally shot Sampson’s bride, to whom he had been marrifed but a week, and then shot herself fatally. Jealousy was the cause. Miss Agnes Beers poisoned her brother-in-law, Joseph Haunder, at St Henry, Minn., and then took her own life in the same manner. No cause known.

An explosion of g- s caused by a leak in the pipe fn the rooms of the White Dental Manufacturing Cotnpany at —: -*.• . I—-—— the establishment Tt was feared that forty-eight miners had perished from hunger and cold in the mountains east of Snohomish, Wash. In speaking of the southern posts of the Grand Army of the Republic Commander Weissert says colored soldiers must be recdgnized. The building of the Indian industrial school at Clontarf, Minn., was entirely destroyed by fire. The forthcoming report of A. B. Hepburn, the comptroller of the currency, shows that the number of banks in operation October 31, 1892, was 8,788, having an aggregate capital of $693,868,645 and total resources of $3,510,094,897. The circulation outstanding shows a net increase for the year of 810,487.226. The residence of A. H. Austin, treasurer of Harrison township, 0., was entered by burglars, who blew open the safe and took 81,500. The Northern Pacific overland express was held up at Hot Springs, Wash., by three masked men who relieved the passengers of cash to the amount of $1,500.

“The Breakers,” the elegant and costly summer residence of Cornelius Vanderbilt at Newport, R. 1., withits valuable contents, were burned, the loss being $400,000. Dispatches received from various parts of the United States indicate a general observance, in the usual manner, of Thanksgiving day throughout the countrv.

A whirlwind swept over California, carrying destruction in its wake. In the harbor at San Francisco a dozen vessels were destroyed and orchards in the interior of the state were ruined, causing a loss of over $500,000. All towns in Ohio using natural gas were greatly aroused over the unmistakable evidence that the supply was slowly failing. A fire that started in the cigarette factory owned by Vaios & Co. at Havana, Cuba, caused a loss of $150,000. Henry Banks, a colored farmer at Clarksville, Ark., who had been absent from home, returned and found his wife talking to Joseph Per-y, a neighbor. Banks pulled out a razor and literally carved them to pieces. Four men lost their lives by the capsizing of a boat near Newberne, N. C. Ten business houses at Dunkirk, Ind., were burned, tho loss being 8100,000. Sheriff McGinnis, of Gordon county, Ga., was killed while attempting to arrest two desperadoes at Plainville. The criminals, Jester Scott and William Morrow, were lynched by a mob. The secretary of the interior transmitted to the secretary of the treasury the estimates required to pay pensions for the next fiscal year. The sum of $166,831,350 will be necessary. The treasurer of the United States, E. H. Nebeker, in his annual report says the total receipts for the year were $736,401,296 and the expenditures 8684,019,289. Of the aggregate stock of money at the end of the fiscal year $771,252,315’ was in the treasury and mints, leaving $1,603,081,736 in the hands of the people. The holdings of the trcasary increased $50,000,000 and the amount in circulation $100,000,000 during the year, In the heat of passion Kate Green, a colored woman at Louisville, Ky., killed her 10-year-old daughter because she told a lie.

The trial of Prof. Charles A. Briggs, of Union seminary, on the charge of heresy, was begun by the presbytery in New York. A consensus of opinion of the mem-bers-elect of the Fifty-third congress on the question of an extra session shows that seventy-two favor it, seven-ty-eight are opposed and thirty-eight are non-committal. The lumber firm of Bills & Koch at Toledo, 0., has failed for $150,000. Alice and Clifford Vessey, the former 3 and the latter 6 years of age, were burned to death by a fire at their home in Chicago. James Stone and William Blakenship were arrested near Anniston, Ala., while making counterfeit nickles. The damage suit of G. W. Herrick against the Lake Shore railroad was decided at Norwajk, 0., the 7 plaintiff getting $9,000. The case had been on trial eleven years and Herrick has since died. While on their way to school at Madison, Neb., Ambrose Malone and Ridgley Wagner, each aged 15 years, attempted to cross a mill pond and they were drowned. ca* Prairie TfFes near Aberdeen, S. D., started by sparks from railroad locomotives, spread over a large territory, burning out several farmers. In the United States the visible supply of grain on the 28th was: Wheat, 70,765,000 bushels; corn, 12,032,000 bushels; oats, 8,037,000 bushels; rye, 1,288,000 bushels; barley, 2,743,000 bushela

Three men and two iromen, um-brella-menders, were burnecl to death in an old barn at Middletown, Conn. Mr. and Mrs. D. Manus, aged 90 and 86 years,, respectively, two well-known and influential German people living near Freeport, 111., were suffocated by coal gas. A large number of non-union men have left the Homestead (Pa.) steel works, being convinced that their places are to be given to old men. A freight train struck a buggy at Foraker, 0., and Miss Andrews was killed and Miss Fry fatally hurt The horse was also killed.

Mrs. Lottie Smith, while playing with a revolver at Columbus, 0., fatal* ly shot her friend, Mrs. John Hally. Jonathan R. Jewell, 92 years old, one of the most picturesque characters among the mining men of the Rocky mountain region, was run over and killed by a train at Great Falls, Mont W. Lander, a prominent attorney at Green Bay, Wis., committed "suicide by hanging. No cause was assigned. Samuel Yates, a miser, who had a vast board of money secreted in his residence near Milan, Tenn., was burned to death in a fire which destroyed his house.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. William McKinley, Sr., father of Gov. McKinley, died at his home in fUwton. 0.. aged 85 years. f The non-pariiaanA Of iaffepenaents, hold the balance of power in the California legislature and can name the next United States senator. The official vote of Illinois gives Cleveland a plurality of 29,178 and Altgeld, for governor, 22,480 plurality. The official count of the vote of Rhode Island shows the following result: Harrison. 27,069; Cleveland, 24,335; Bidwell. 1,565; Weaver, 227. Plurality for Harrison, 2,734. The official vote of Minnesota gives President Harrison a plurality of 21,270. Nelson (rep.) for governor has a plurality of 14,967. The official canvase of the vote of Connecticut shows the following result: Cleveland, 82,397; Harrison. 77,025. Bidwell, 4,025; Weaver, 806; Wing (socialist labor), 329; scattering, 245; total, 164,825; Cleveland’s plurality, 5,370. The republican majority on joint ballot in the legislature is 14. Thomas Pembridge, 80 years old, and Mrs. Sarah, von Storch, 70 years old, were married at Scranton, Pa. The groom is a well-to-do fanner of Spring Brook.

Edward Daniel Boler, for over forty years at the head of the Mount Lebanon (Pa.) Shakers, is dead. He was 90 years old. The official returns from the recent election in Tennessee show the following vote: Cleveland 136,477; Harrison, 99,973; Weaver, 23,633; Bidwell, 4,856. The democrats elect eight congressmen and the republicans two. The official vote of lowa for president was: Harrison, 219,378; Cleveland, 196,408; Weaver, 20,616; Bidwell, 6,322. Ann Davis, who was born in Wales in 1791, died at the Schuylkillhaven (Pa.) almshouse. She had been a widow for fifty years. The official vote of Kentucky at the recent election was: Cleveland, 175,424; Harrison, 135,420; Weaver, 23,508; Bidwell, 6,385; total, 340,732. Mrs. Abby Hutchinson Patton, wife of Ludlow Patton, died in New York. She was the last survivor of the famous Hutchinson family of singers of New Hampshire. The corrected vote of New York by counties gives Cleveland a plurality over Harrison of 45,981. The official vote of Pennsylvania gives Harrison a plurality over Cleveland of 63,747.

FOREIGft. William O’Connor, champion oarsman of America, died in Toronto, Can., of typhoid fever, aged 29 years. In a gale off the Japanese coast a number of boats were wrecked and nineteen fishermen drowned. Eighty soldiers were crushed to death by the falling of a temple at Changchow, China. Eighteen miners were killed by a cave-in at the Borda mine at Pachuca, Mexico. At a bull fight in Arteaga, Mexico, the enraged animals broke from the arena and charged the crowd of spectators, sixty persons being injured and one killed. Jenner’s silk store at Edinburg, Scotland, was burned, causing a loss of $500,000, and the damage to adjacent buildings by fire and water was $750,000. J. J. C. Abbott resigned the premiership of Canada and Sir John Thompson, minister of justice, is his successor. The health officer of Berlin reports that there have been in Germany this year 19,647 cases of cholera, of which 8,575 were fatal.

LATER. Census Superintendent Porter in his annual report to the secretary of the interior strongly urges that the Census office be made a permanent bureau of the interior department The cost of taking the eleventh census amounted to $8,203,693. Dr. John W. Scott, father of the late Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, died at the white house, aged 93 years. Mrs. Carrie Richardson, a widow, and her 8-year-old daughter Mabel, committed suicide lu Chicago by turning on the gas in their room. Graham N. Fitch, United States senator from Indiana from 1856 to 1861, died at his home in Logansport, aged 82 years. Near Enterprise, Kj , Carl Burgham killed his wife , by cutting her throat with a razor and then committed suicide by shooting himself. The total collections of internal revenue for the first four months of th a present fiscal year were $56,258,020, an increase of $4,332,752 over the corresponding period of the last fiscal year. The official vote in Ohio of the presidential candidates is as follows: Harrison 405,187; Cleveland, 404,115; Bidwell, 26,012; Weaver, 14,852. Harrison’s plurality, 1,072. Alexander H. Wyant, the famous American landscape painter, died at his home in New York of softening of the brain.

Returns from the recent elections in the various states indicate that the next United States senate will be a tie politically. John Noland, of Cleveland county, N. C., died of hydrophobia after chewing his tongue into shreds in his convulsions. The corrected vote of Wiscousin cast at the late election shows that Cleveland received 177,447 votes, Harrison, 170,973; Cleveland’s plurality, 6,474. The vote for governor was: Peck, 178,11’; Spooner, 170,445 f Peck’s plurality, 7,658. The prohibition vote was 13,064 and the labor vote 7,870. A mob at Hiawatha, Kan., lynched Commodore True (colored) for the murder of William Walthall. The members of the senate committee oh immigration in session in New York considered propositions that all immigration, eicept from North and South American countries shall be suspended for one year from March 1, 1893, and that nonimmigrant shall be admitted to the United States between the ages of 12 and 55 years unless he can read and write and possesses SIOO in money or its equivalent