People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1892 — PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Db. F. L. Patterson, a former prominent Baptist evangelist of the northwest, died at his home in Mason City, la Sylvia Best (colored) died in Morristown, N. J., aged 118 years. Mrs. Betsey Dowling, aged 101 years, died at her home near Mitchell. Ind. Mrs. Diana Doutf, aged 103 years 9 months and 15 days, died at the home of her son, Bainbridge Douty, in Charlton, Mass. Mrs. Douty was born in Charlton March 7, 1788, and had been a widow fifty years. Gen. Frederick T. Dent, the distinguished union soldier and brother-in-law of U. & Grant, died in Denver, Col., aged 72 years. McCabe Benge died at his home near Bloomfield, la., aged 111 years. He voted in every presidential contest since 1804 and his last vote was cast for President Harrison. “Uncle Jeff” Hutchinson, a colored man, died at the home of Mrs. Maria Griffin in Chicago, aged 117 years.

AloK2V> Nute, member of the Fiftyfirst cetigress from the First district of New Hampshire, died at his home in Farmington, aged 66 years. Jacob Henbici, first trustee of the peculiar sect known as the Harmonist society, died near Pittsburgh, Pa., aged 89 years. Sallie Jackson, a colored centenarian, was buried in Washington.

FOREIGN. A defalcation of $250,000 was discovered in the treasury of the, state of Pueblo, Mexico. Morgan’s carriage works at LeightonBuzzard, England, were destroyed by fire, the loss being $200,000. Among the stock burned were* ten carriages that it was intended to exhibit at the world’s fair in Chicago. Several prominent officials in Paris, including M. ex-minister of finance, and M. Jules Roche, ex-minis-ter of commerce, have been indicted for Panama canal swindles, and the overthrow of the republic was threatened. The first issue of an evening paper called the Sun made its appearance in Toronto, Ont., its object being to advocate the annexation of Canada to the United States. During a fire at Berson, France, fourteen persons were either burned to death in their homes or were killed while attempting to escape. In a wreck on the Mexican Southern railway near the City of Mexico four persons were killed. At the municipal election in Guatemala, Mexico, a number of street brawls occurred in which seven persons were killed. Indians massacred over a dozen families in the Sierre Madre mountains in Mexico. The state department of Mexico has prepared a complaint regarding the crossing of bandits from the United States to Mexican soil and of the damage they have caused, and requesting the American government to put a stop to such practices. M. Clemenceau and M. Deroulede fought a duel in Paris, six shots being exchanged without injury to either. Marquis de Pendana, a grandee of Spain, has been appointed Spanish minister to the U nited States to succeed Senor Suarez Guanes. Michael Davitt, a member of the British parliament for North Meath, has been deprived of his seat by a court decision. Montague Williams, a famous English criminal lawyer, died in London, aged 57 years. The cholera is increasing in the province of Lublin, in Russian Poland, and adjoining the Austrian border. Scores of persons were dying from starvation in the government of Uleabory, Sweden. A jealous man at Tehuantepec, Mexico, chopped to death with a knife his wife, his mother-in-law and his sis-ter-in-law. During a violent gale on the west coast of Spain the ship Maria Teresa foundered off San Lucars and eight of the crew were drowned. A yacht was upset in the harbor at Sidney, N. S. W., and ten persons were drowned. There was said to be 173,000 persons in the province of Tula, Russia, dependent upon outside assistance. The crops are an utter failure and the condition of the farmers is even worse in 1891. An earthquake shock lasting forty seconds was felt at Cornwall, Ont. The fact has just been made public that during the Trefort ministry in Hungary 4,000,000 florins were embezzled in the department of education.

LATER. Orange Judd, the veteran agricultural journalist and philanthropist, died at his home in Evanston, 111., at the age of 70. He had been in poor health for several months. Fire destroyed every business house in Snow Hill, Ala., except one. A battle took place near Las Animas, Mexico, between 300 Mexican troops and 250 revolutionists, in which thirteen were killed and many wounded and the troops were routed. Terrible losses among stock owing to col t d weather and deep snow were reported from Englewood, Kan. A fire in the Continental block in Omaha destroyed property valued at 8500,000. S. S. Orchard, carpet dealer, and Freeland, Loomis & Co., furniture dealers, were the heaviest losers. Mrs. Liri L-sczynsky, 124 years old, - died in Washington. She was born at Wilna, Russia, in 1768, and came to this country two and a half years ago. The Delaware county courthouse at Muncie, Ind., was burned, the loss being 8300,000. The famine in north Finland was increasing, and there was a movement in Sweden to renew the subscriptions of the last year for the aid of the starving Finlanders. The seventieth anniversary of the birth of M. Louis Pasteur, the distinguished biologist and chemist, was celeb- .ted in Paris with great pomp. Jacob Dischart, aged 109 years and 10 months, died at Washington, Ind. The Russian authorities believe that they have unearthed a widespread plot against the czar in which a number, not only of the lower officials, but also those of higher rank, are involved. John D. Rockefeller made the University of Chicago a Christmas present of 81,000,000, making a total of 83,600,000 that he has given to that institution. Incendiary fires in Milwaukee destroyed the tanneries of the William Becker Leather company and Conrad Bros, causing a loss of 8250,000 and the death of three men, and the street car barns and electric plant of the Villard line, the loss being 8300,000. A family named Rasmussen, consisting of husband, wife and child, were asphyxiated by coal gas in their home near Bradley,'B. D. The sugar mills and warehouses on the Darlington plantation in Fort Bend county K Tex., owned by Mrs. Narcissa Willis, were destroyed by fire/entailing a loss of 8250,000. and the Chinn plantation owned by Mr. Brown suffered a similar disaster, his loss being 8100,000.