People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1893 — DOMESTIC. [ARTICLE]

DOMESTIC.

Flames at Chateaugay, N. Y., destroyed almost the entire business portion of the town. Loss, >175,000. The wife and daughter of Jacob Ringger, a farmer near Alma, Wis., died from eating diseased pork. Wealthy Farmer Judd, of Tyrone, iAu mourns the loss of a hired tramp, 8900 and a shotgun. Fire swept clean one street in the business district of Alliance, Neb., involving a loss of over SIOO,OOO. Cushing academy at Ashburnham, Mass., a noted educational institution and preparatory school, was burned, the loss being $160,000. It was repprted that a gigantic lumber combine had been formed by Maine and Massachusetts parties which would practically control the lumber business of the United States. Advocates of a canal to unite the great lakes and the ocean met in Washington. Between seventy-five and 100 gentlemen were present, representing the commercial bodies and the lake in-’ terests of the country. The westbound Maysville accommodation train collided with a freight train at Dover, Ky., killing the engineer, flreinan and six passengers. The National Bicycle Association of America was formed in Philadelphia. It is allied with baseball and its purpose is to give regular bicycle meetings With cash prizes. A hire in the heart of the retail district of Kansas City, Mo., caused a loss of 8245,000. Will Brown, aged 18 years, and Alice Smith, a 15-year-old girl, surprised their friends at Springfield, 0., by eloping and getting married. Two negroes, Ed and Dick Moorman (brothers), were hanged by a mob at Gaston, Ky., for murdering and robbing a farmer.

An avalanche swept down the mountain side in Salzso, Wash., and buried two miners, James Switzer and Martin Flaherty, under 150 feet of snow. An ice bridge of frozen foam was formed at Niagara Falls and frozen so solid that a number of persons crossed it This was the first time in 100 years that these boiling waters had frozen over. All but one of the 150 rare manuscripts presented to Knox library in New York by Banker John S. Kennedy have been pronounced forgeries by the British museum experts. The trial of Hugh Dempsey, district master workman of the Knights of Labor, J. M. Davidson and Robert Beatty, charged with poisoning non-union workmen in the Homestead steel mill, began at Pittsburgh. Thebe was considerable excitement in Jackson over reports of outrages committed by white caps against wealthy Jews in southern Mississippi. At the leading clearing houses in the United States the exchanges during the week ended on the 13th aggregated ¥1,370,808,981, against $1,000,549,436 the previous week. The decrease as compared with the corresponding week of 1892 was 3.1. The Hotel St Louis, the first large hotel ever built in Duluth, Minn., was destroyed by fire, the loss being SIOO,000. William Baudre and Charles Preston, railroad men, perished in the flames. Eighteen persons were badly injured by the telescoping of a Chicago & Eastern Illinois accommodation train by the Chicago & Erie express at Fiftyfifth street in Chicago. > Three more negroes were lynched in Monroe county, Ark., on accpuntof the Atkinson murder'ai Cotton Plant The four negroes named Charles Brooks, Frisby Comegys, Fletcher Williams and Moses Brown were hanged at Chestertown, Md., for the murder of Dr. James H. Hill April 23, 1892. Three of them were 16 and one 13 years of Ae. / Henby Codman, landscape artist of the World’s Columbian exposition, died suddenly at St. Luke’s hospital in Chicago. „ 1 • In a railway wreck near Minshall, Ind., George Stith, engineer, and William Warren, fireman, were killed. An engine with a snow-plow in front dashed into the rear of a Chicago & Northwestern train at Story City, la., injuring twenty-one people, but killIn the United States during the seven days ended on the 18th the business failures numbered 806, against 340 the previous week and 830 for he corre- > ... . ® •*

Tme steamer Jolm Warner v oat a flue at Chattanooga, klllinglwo deck hand% and twelve others were scalded more or less serioaaly. Twenty-five persons narrowly es- . caped death from asphyxiation by illuminating gas at Pittsburgh, Pa. Ben Lafargue, son of the state superintendent of education, was lynched in Avoyelles parish, La. He killed a negro some weeks ago. A passenger train on the lowa Central was derailed near Burlington. la., -killing two unknown passengers and injuring fatally Rev. Mr. Miller, es Wayland, la; Elmer Reece, of Morning Sun, la, and E. S. Drummer, of Wyoming, IIL Flames at Brewster, N. Y., destroyed •everal business buildings, causing a loss of SIOO,OOO. The Winnebago Indians at the reservation near Black River Falls, Wis., were suffering terribly from the cold, the mercury being 40 degrees below zero. In a quarrel at Dallas, Tex., Albert Grant shot Fannie Howard and then killed himself. James Kelly and Tobe Hines, two farmers living near Truxton, Mo., engaged in a quarrel that resulted fatally to both.

E. C. Allen fatally shot his wife and shot and killed Bert Van Tassel in a restaurant at Rice Lake, Wis. He alleged that the two were criminally intimate. Diphtheria and scarlet fever were epidemic at DanvilU, Pa., and all public gathering? hail been prohibited. The pope Has debided to establish a permanent apostolic delegation the United States, and has nominated 'Mgr. Satolli to be the first delegate. Miss Ethel Cary, an estimable young lady .aged 22, shot and killed an unknown man at Crawford, Tenn., who attempted to assault her. Mrs. M. M. Anderson, of Pulaski, has been elected assistant sergeant-at-arms. of the Arkansas legislature. This is the first time a woman has been elected to that position. Intensely cold weather was reported from all portions of the country, the thermometer ranging from 26 degrees below zero in the north to 10 belew in the south. At Knoxville, Tenn., and vicinity over a dozen persons froze to death. Exports from the United States to South American countries in 1892 amounted to $62,808,003, an increase of $7,106,359 over the previous year. The continued cold weather has increased the suffering at Homestead, Pa., and it was stated that nearly 300 people were on the verge of starvation. Gov. Stone, of Mississippi, issued a proclamation commanding the white cap organizations in the southern part of the state to desist and offering SIOO reward for the capture of each of the outlaws. Because told that he must go to work Thomas Kilday fatally shot his father, mother and sister in Philadelphia. Fire destroyed the Neufeld manufacturing company’s building in Chicago, the loss being SIOO,OOO. * The country residence of W. C. Harrison near Philadelphia was burned with its contents, the loss being $125,000.

J. N. MiTTijEBEfeGBR, treasurer of St. Charles county, Mo., was said to be $16,000 short in his accounts. Gbandville Stevenson, second engineer, and Henry Thompson, third engineer of the British steamship Glenbervie, were suffocated on that vessel in New York by coal gas. A four story warehouse in Philadelphia collapsed, and seven men were caught in the ruins, three of whom were killed and one injured The first regular session of the twenty-fifth annual convention of the National American Woman Suffrage association was opened in Washington. In the United States the visible supply of grain on the 16th was: Wheat, 82,081,000 bushels; corn, 12,260,000 bushels; oats, 5,903,000 bushels; rye, 1,044,000 bushels; barley, 2,135,000 bushels. Koknel Loth, the murderer of Mrs. Demacsek, met death by electricity at Clinton prison in Dannemora, N. Y. In the trial at Pittsburgh of the Homestead poisoning case Patrick Gallagher, the cook upon whose confession the charges of poisoning were made, said that Hugh Dempsey, master workman of the Kpight of Labor, gave him powders to place in the coffee and tea that was to be given to the nonunionists C. R. Ryan & Co., wholesale grocers at Memphis, Tenn., failed for $150,000, The new SIOO,OOO courthouse at Dubuque, la., was dedicated with imposing ceremonies and a banquet. Gisbert Waescher, of Chicago, arrived in San Francisco after riding horseback overland from" Chicago. It took him ninety-eight days to travel the 3,000 miles. A mail car on the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia railroad was totally destroyed by fire near Selma, Ala., and all United States mail and southern express matter was burned. Michael J. Kelly, famous catcher and right fielder of the old Boston baseball team, made his debut as a theatrical star in New York.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Lewis Baker died suddenly at his home in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., in the 101st year of his age. lie leaves three sons—Alexander, aged «0; -Nicholas, aged 77, and Cyrus, aged 72. Upon canvassing the returns of the election on November 8 in Arkansas it was shown that the amendment to the constitution requiring an elector to exhibit a poll tax receipt before he Can vote at an elect on was-adopted., Dr. Samuel Logan, aged 63, one of the oldest and most prominent physicians in the south, died suddenly in his office in New Orleans. The official canvass of the vote cast in Nebraska at the recent election showed that the republican governor and other state officers were elected and Gov. Crounse was du|y inaugurated. W William H. Wickham, mayor of New York city during 1875 and 1876, died in that city, aged 65 yeair

Jeremiah Harvey* known throughout Indiana as the oldest odd fellow in the state and the founder of the first newspaper in Grant county, died at Marion at the age of 8$ years. State Senator Fred Born, the oldest member of the Wisconsin legislature, died at bis home in Cedarburg at the age of 77 years. He had served in the legislature almost constantly for forty-five years, having been elected to the first state senate in 1848. Horace Smith, founder, with D. B. Wesson, of the celebrated firm of Smith <fc Wesson, revolver manufacturers, died suddenly of heart failure at his home in Springfield, Mass. James Comstock, a veteran of the Mexican war, died at Carthage, Mo., aged 64 years. Miss Sarah Herring, daughter of Attorney General Herring, is the first woman admitted to the bar in Arizona. Gen. Rufus Ingalls, United States army, retired, died in New York city, aged 70 years. The funeral services over the remains of the late Gen. B. F. Butler were held at Lowell, Mass. Dr. John B. Rice, ex-congressman, died at his home in Fremont, O. The democratic members of the Delaware legislature nominated George Gray for United States senator. Ex-President Hayes was suffering from an attack of neuralgia of the heart at his home in Fremont, 0., on the 16th, and a fatal result was feared.

FOREIGN. A body of federal cavalry attacked the rebels at Sanotome, in the Argentine republic, and dislodged them from their position and fifty of the rebels were killed or wounded. The health officer reports that there ♦ere 10,919 deaths from cholera in Hamburg in 1892, and 26,323 deaths from all causes. A spinning mill at Osaka, Japan, was burned with a loss of 125 lives. Most of the victims were young girls. Two hundred and seventy houses in the vicinity of the inill were also burned. | Robbers fired a temple at Kam Li, Chiqa, which, was filled with natives who were thatching a theatrical performance, and 1.400 lives were lost. A law passed by th© Colombian congress decrees ample funds for the gradual exchange of paper money for silver. A band of brigands made a descent upon a church at Pego, Spain, killed'a priest named Suarez and one of his assistants, and then stole the altar service. The emigrants who left German ports for the United States in 18ffe numbered 108.820. The weather throughout Europe was intensely cold. In Russia the mercfiiry fell to 69 degrees centigrade below zero, and in Siberia to 79 degrees below zero. In Hungary it was 40 below. A train on the Congo railway collided with a wagon loaded with dynamite near Matadi, an explosiqn followed and fifty persons were killed. The body of a woman cut in 178 pieces was found in a coffee sack in the street at Moscow. Nothing had been learned as to the identity of her murderer. The French steamship St Marie ran down an Italian bark off Villa Franca during a heavy fleet storm and the bark went down with all her crew of thirteen men. Frances Anne Kembi.e (Mrs. Pierce Butler), once a well-known actress, died in London, aged 84 years. Domincio Taragnello, an Italian, and Sing Kee, a Chinaman, were hanged at Nanaimo, B. C. Each man murdered a fellow countryman.

LATER. A bill to repeal the silver-bullion purchase provision of the She: man bill was reported in the United States senate on the 17th and the McGarraghan bill was defeated by a vote of 29 to 18. The joint resolution to amend the constitution so as to limit the presidential office to one term was discussed. It* the house a bill was introduced to refund the 4 per cent, bonds, to increase the circulation of the national «banks and to discontinue the purchase of silver bullion. A resolution was agreed to making provision for the joint meeting of the two houses of congress on Wednesday, February 8, to count the electoral vote. The National League for Good Road§ m et in annual convention at Washington. Fire completely destroyed the homa of the Calumet club in Chicago, entailing a loss of $250,000 on the building and contents. Martin A. Redfield died from the effects of the flames and a domestic named Kittie McCabe was missing. - , Martin Milleb, aged 30, was kitted and his wife Kate, aged 43, fatally injured by their sleigh being struck by an engine near Belfast, Pa. Sixteen of a wandering band of gypsies were frozen to death near Koniggratz, Bohemia., United States senators were elected as follows: Michigan, Francis B. Stockbridge (rep.); .Indiana, David Turpie (dem.); Tennessee, W. B. Bate (dern.).; New York, Edward Murphy (dem.'j; Massachusetts, Henry Cabot Lodge (rep.); Connecticut, Joseph R. Hawjey. (rep-); Maine, Eugene Hale (rep.); Deiaware, George Gray (dem.). ' A freight train crashed into a largei, sleigh-load of people at Lonsdale, R. 1., killing eight of the occupants and in-* juring a dozen others. A train took fire near Samara, Russia, while running at full speed, frdm an overturned stove, and forty-nine persons were burned to death and many others’were injured. George T. Writs' took the oath of office in : Trenton and was duly installed governor of New Jersey. Rutherford Birchard Hayes, LL. D., nineteenth president of the United States, died from paralysis of the heart op the 17th‘ at his home in Fremobt, aged 71 years. He served' in th? army throughout the way,, was a member of congress in 1865, served as governor of Ohio frpm 1866 to 1870, was governor in 1875-76, and was inaugurated president oi the United States on March 5, 1877. : ’ r