People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1893 — DOMESTIC. [ARTICLE]

DOMESTIC.

Herbert M. Hayden, 68 years old, chief clerk in the auditor’s office of the Chicago & Northwestern railroad, was killed by being knocked down by a horse in the street in Chicago. At the eighth annual meeting in New York of the American Protective Tariff league the report of the general secretary showed that during the past year the general operations of the league had been more extensive than ever before in its history. A motor car ran into a sleigh load of persons in Cleveland, 0., and five were badly injured. Farmers about Great Falls, Mont, have been plowing for the last three weeks. Nathan Ramsey (colored) was hanged in the jail yard at Helena, Ark., for murdering Prince Mallory, a negro neighbor, on January 13, 1892. Fire in the large warehouse of the American Phosphate and Chemical company at Baltimore destroyed property valued at 8200,000. The case of ex-Detective Daniel Coughlin, the only survivor of the three men sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Dr. Patrick Henry Cronin in Chicago May 4, 1889, has been reversed and remanded by the supreme court at Ottawa. This gives Coughlin a new trial. David Williams (colored) was hanged by a mob near Carrollton, Ala., for criminally assaulting Mary Davis, a white girl, aged 13 years. When the will of the late Horace Smith, of Springfield, Mass., was opened it was found that with the exception of SIO,OOO the entire estate, valued at about 83,000,000, was given to benevolent and charitable institutions.

At Colorado Springs, Col., William Ilall struck a rich gold mine in his back yard. . Trains on the Pennsylvania road collided near Jersey City, N. J., and fifteen persons were injured, three fatally. Mrs. Samuel K. Langrell, of Denton, Md,, and her three children were buried in one grave, all having died of the measles in one day. Mrs. John Bradford, of White Plains, Mo., while in an epileptic fit fell into an open grate and was burned to death. Charles W. Thorn, wanted in Kansas City for the robbery of a bank there of $11,300, was captured in St. Paul, and in his valise was found $7,200 in bills. , W. B. Hoffa and Harry Rollins, two young men of Grenada, Miss., got lost from a hunting party in the Tallahatchie swamps and perished from exposure. A passenger train dashed from a bridge into the Wabash river near Peru, Ind., and George C. Dorland, of La Porte, was killed and sixteen other persons were injured, some fatally. District Master Workman Hugh Dempsey, K. of L., was found guilty in Pittsburgh of administering poison with intent to commit murder in the Homestead poisoning cases. The extreme penalty for this crime is a fine of SSOO and ten years’ imprisonment A small audience assembled at the office of the long-distance telephone in Chicago and listened to a conctert given in New York. Joseph Winsor, a prominent inventor, died at Providence, R. 1., aged 84 years. He was married seven times and secured judicial separation from six of his wives. The seven wives survive him. John Logan, foreman of the American Watch company and inventor of the hair spring, committed suicide in Boston by shooting himself. By an explosion of giant powder at Richmond, Utah, Lewis and James Kerr were killed and Thomas Exeter, Fred Rainey and Clander Peart fatally injured. At the leading clearing houses in the United States the exchanges during the week ended on the 20th aggregated •1,464,626,829, against $1,370,808,981, the previous week. As compared with the corresponding week of 1892 the increase was 18.1. Dubing a fire which destroyed Story & Co.’s warehouse in New York fifteen firemen were buried under falling walls and four were probably fatally injured. The property loss was SBOO,-

I> a sudden fit of anger Mrs. Mary Taggert, of Philadelphia, stabbed to death her son Thomas Davis, a 17-year-old boy by a former husband. An ice gorge broke at Belmont, Ky., and one steamer and several barges were sunk and three negroes were drowned.

Charles G. Sinclair, charged with embezzling $20,000 from the Armour Packing company at their New York market, was captured in Chicago. While engaged in clearing out a large vault built by the government in connection with the army hospital at the fort in Fort Scott, Kan., during the war the workmen found a large amount of money in dimes. The new Northwestern college at Albany, Mo., which was just being completed, was destroyed by fire. A case of genuine leprosy was discovered at Napoleon, O. It is that of Lee Lung, a Chinese man who had lived there two years. A train on the Big Four road ran into an oil train near Alton, Ilk A large number of persons gathered at the scene of the wreck when an explosion occurred, killing sixteen persons and injuring over fifty others, seventeen fatally. All places of amusement in Denver, Col., were closed Sunday night by order of the police board, and the proprietors and employes were arrested and placed in jaik Mbs. Kate Rosler and George Rosier, her nephew, aged 6 years, were burned to death in a fire which destroyed their house in Pittsburgh, Pa. The Capitol national bank of Lincoln, Neb., was closed by the national bank examiner. The deposits amounted to $625,000, of which the state had $250,000.

Not in the history of the present generation has Lake Erie been frozen as it is now. There is an unbroken field of ice from Detroit to Put-in-Bay. A building occupied by manufacturing firms in Rochester, N. Y., was burned, causing a loss of $250,000 and the death of S. W. Burns, a fireman. The Tise block at Raleigh, N. C., in which was several business firms, was destroyed by fire, the loss being 8100,000. The Carondolet elevator at South St. Louis, containing 1,250,000 bushels of wheat, was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $1,500,000. A mob took Robert Landry and Pick George (negroes) from the jail at Convent, La., and banged them. One was charged with murder and the other with robbery. Twenty-three men under arrest on charges of murder in the rustlers’ war in Johnson county, Wyo., have been acquitted for lack of money to carry on the prosecution. In a rear-end collision on the Pennsylvania road at Docklow, Pa., eight persons were badly injured. Over a block of business and dwelling houses were destroyed by fire at Tyrone, Pa., the loss being estimated at $150,000. The Mcßeth lamp flue works at Elwood, Ind., the largest of the kind in the world, were burned, the loss being 8100,000. In the United States the visible supply of grain on the 23d was: Wheat, 82,252,000 bushels; corn, 12,176,000 bushels; oats, 5,617,000 bushels; rye, 1,029,000 bushels; barley, 2,054,000 bushels. Two dredgers who reached Norfolk, Va., from Tangier island reported the inhabitants of the island on the point of starvation.

George Fellows, aged 74, and his son William, aged 38, died at Columbus, Ind., within fifteen minutes of each other from lung fever. Three days before Mrs. Fellows, aged 71 years, died suddenly. Augustus Cronkhite, of Williamsport, Ind., treasurer of Warren county, discovered to be a defaulter to the extent of $60,000. He had fled. Two children of Albert Glass, living near Hollidaysburg, Pa., were burned to death iu a fire following a lamp explosion. Five more deaths were reported, making twenty-one thus far, as the result of the explosion near Alton, 111., and twenty-five more were in a dangerous condition, many of them without hope of recovery. Father J. T. Culleton, a Catholic priest at Raywick, Ky., was excommunicated for marrying his cousin. Near Marietta, 6., Nicholas Haas, a farmer, 75 years old, killed his wife, aged 63, and then took his own life. Trouble over money matters was the cause. Cohn Bros., of Salt Lake City, one of the oldest and largest dry-goods firms in Utah terrritory failed for SIIO,OOO. Cracksmen blew open the safe of the First national bank at Greenville, Tex., and secured S7BO. Frank Woodruff, alias Black, who was one of those who won notoriety in connection with the Cronin murder case in Chicago, died in the penitentiary at Lansing, Kan. A call has been issued for a world’s •ongress in Chicago of representative women, which, it is expected, will open the series of world congresses to be held during the Columbian exposition.