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

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A bill was reported in the United States senate on the 24th authorizing the commissioner of pensions to accept as proof of citizenship of an applicant for a pension under the act of July 27, 1890, the fact that at the date of his application he was an actual and bona fide resident of the United States, and it was passed. The death of Justice Lamar was announced and an adjournment was taken. The house refused to agree to a motion to take up the sundry civil bill, the fight against it being made by the friends of the bankruptcy bill. Then, as a mark of respect to the memory of the late Justice Lamar, an adjournment was ordered. Alexandre Jacques, a Frenchman, completed a fast of fifty days in New York, winning a purse of $2,300. Later advices from the Fortschitt mine explosion in Bohemia say that eighty m t.ers were killed and scores were inju’ed. Frank D. Haenschen, aged 19, shot and probably fatally wounded his affianced. Alice Bruce, at her father’s home in St. Louis, and then shot himself dead. Cigarette smoking had weakened his mind. A gasoline stove exploded in the residence of Owen Rice at Baltimore, Md., and Mrs. Rice and her two children were burned to death. Flames destroyed elevator B in Indianapolis. It contained 250,000 bushels of grain, and the loss was $200,000. The State bank of Wahoo, Neb., closed its doors with deposits of over $50,000. W. H. Dickinson, the president and owner, was missing. A fire which started in the Casino building in St Augustine, Fla., caused a loss of SIOO,OOO. George A. H. Baker, for many years assistant state’s attorney, committed suicide at his residence in Chicago. No cause was known. A committee of the Ohio house of representatives will recommend that the state house be built at Mount Vernon. Fire destroyed the residence of T. A. Sullivan at Bonn River, N. 8., and Henry Sullivan, aged 14, and John Orr, aged 21, perished in the flames.

In a wreck on the Santa Fe road near Millsdale, IIL. M. Rohn, engineer, M. J. Mahoney, brakeman, and Richard Mitchel], engineer, were killed. William M. Stewart was reelected to the United States senate by the Nevada legislature and Roger Q. Mills was reelected in Texas. Messrs. Faulkner and Camden were chosen in West Virginia.