People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1893 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

The Bock beer season is now here. Sylvester Healy has a house for rent. Wm. Babcock is down with the measles. Subsciptions taken for any paper or magazine at this office. Work has begun on J. R. Kight’s new hopse. Go to Hemphill’s blacksmith shop for your work. 41-4 L F. Gk Henkle, of San Pierre, was in town this week. George Hopkins is clerking in F. B. Meyer’s drug store. Subscriptions for the Nonconformist taken at this office. Candidates for town marshal are becoming numerous. Smoke the Mendosa x cigar. For sale everywhere. The frame of the new mill on the river bank has been raised. Wanted.—A good girl at Goff’s restaurant. Good wages. The school children and teachers are enjoying vacation this week. A full line of sample carpets at J. W. Williams’ furniture store very cheap. N. S. Bates was in Fowler Wednesday being examined for a pension.

For Rent.—A three room house on Front street. Inquire of Sylvester Healy. A 10-pound daughter at John Renicher’s, in Barkley township, last Friday. Wm. Paxton and wife, of Chicago, are visiting relatives in Rensselaer.

You can now put in your spare time aiding your wife cleaning up the yard. Eighteen persons were examined for teachers’ license last Saturday. Miss Eva Jackson, of Hammond is visiting friends in Rensselaer this week. The Reynolds Broom is no more. It gave up the ghost for want of support. A hunting party from Rensselaer is exploring the Black Marsh this week. J. E. Spitler visited relatives at Tipton, Ind., a few days the past week. Charlie Sprigg has purchased Andy Minikus’ property near Frank Osborne’s. Marriage licenses: Charles Young, Joanna Walters; George P. Brower, Cora Poisel. The Roby race track opened again Wednesday, after being closed nearly two months. Dr. Hale, of Wabash, Ind., wds the guest of C. C. Warner and Sei Grant this week. Miss Mary Meyer is in Chicago this week studying styles in millinery and buying goods. The Iroquois club re-elected all its old officers for the ensuing year last Friday evening. Be ready to work for any enterprise that has for its object the upbuilding and prosperity of your town. Hemphill & Honan are selling out to quit business. Now is the time *to get bargains for cash.

Miss Ella Sinclair, of Cloverdale, Ind., is spending a few weeks here with her cousins, the Glazebrooks. Hemphill & Honan are selling out to quit business. Now is the time to get bargains’ for cash. Miss Mamie Williams is home from college for a short vacation. She will return next Tuesday. Take you faded clothes to E. M. Parcells and have them dyed. All work first class. Prices reasonable.

If you know an item of news, send it to us. Don't be bashful! Bashful people seldom get into the newspapers. Hemphill & Honan are selling out to quit business. Now is the time to get bargains for cash. Chas. W. Porter is visiting his parents. His run as Pullman conductor is now from Chicago. He will retnain a few days. Sim Dpwell is now a citizen of Marion township, having moved into his new house just north of town. Welcome, Mr. Dowell. A few shares of the Rensselaer building and loan stock for sale cheap. • Inquire of Geo. K. Hollingsworth. J. U. Iliff and wife are rejoicing over the first pair of twins ever born in Jordan township. They are girls. Hemphill & Honan are selling out as fast as possible, going to quit business. Now is the time to secure bargains for cash. One 60-gallon oil tank, two show cases and spice caddies for sale at a bargain by C. H. Vick, at the World’s Fair restaurant. We received a request this week for sample copies of the Pilot from Wyoming. They were wanted for missionary work. The women will yet have the laugh on the men. The peg-top trousers of 1830 bid fair to come again. They are as ugly as hoops.

J. C. Williams, the photographer, was called to Coshocton, Ohio, Wednesday, by a telegram announcing the serious illness of his father. Warner & Shead have added a delivery wagon to their grocery and will deliver goods to any place in town free. Give them a call. The citizens and business men of the town raised about $45 to help repair Milt Chipman’s house, which was damaged by fire Tuesday. • Farmers, if you are needing either a disc or spading harrow do not fail to call on Hammond Bros, as they are closing them out at cost. The stock of goods of Leopold & Mosier remaining unsold were sold Wednesdays by the assignee to A. Leopold, of Rens selaer, for SB,OOO. , 200 bushels of Mayflower seed potatoes for sale at $1 per bushel if taken at once. Enquire of A. Donnelly, 1| mile north of town. Dear reader, do you know how you can help this paper along? You can do it very easily by trading with the merchants who advertise in its columns. Farms to rent on equitable terms. Drainage good. Apply at my office. B. J. Gifford, Kankakee, 111.

Tax payers will do well to remember to pay the first installment of taxes prior to the third Monday of April, if they wish to avoid the legal penalty. A gold emblem pin has been left at this office which was picked up on the street. Owner can have same by giving description and paying for this notice. Have you seen that beautiful line of children’s suits, handsome jerseys, pretty three piece suits, nobby double breasted. Call in and inspect them. R. Fendig. CARPETS. Brussels, ingrains, hemps, everything in the carpet line. A beautiful line of symrna rugs. If you need anything in this line we can please you. R. Fendig.

Harry P. Kissinger and Cora A. Sayler were unied in marriage at the residence of the bride’s parents by Rev. Hawkins Wednesday of last week. Squire Morgan united in marriage last Thursday afternoon Mr. Chas. Young and Miss Joanna Walters, of Barkley township. The groom lives in Logansport but will shortly move to Rensselaer. The hen that loafed around all winter with no other object in view than to eat, now shows signs of activity and hustles around and evinces a disposition to contribute to her board on the installment plan. Dr. I. B. the optician, handles the celebrated Trolley’s Kohinoor eye glasses, the best made. Attention is called to the ad, "See Again as in Youth,” in another place in this paper. As we go to press the case of the State of Indiana vs. Edward D. Phalon, of Blackford, on the charge of stealing a log chain is being tried before a jury in the circuit court. The value of the chain in controversy is about $3. Mr. J. W. Clear, Horatio Ropp and A. T. Ropp came in to see us Saturday and each subscribed for the Pilot for a year, because "it prints all the homo news.” Get your neigbors to subscribe, gentlemen. Call in at Warner <fc Shead’s and buy your groceries. All their goods are new and clean and show off to advantage in their well lighted room. Goods delivered free to any residence in town.

The local union of the Y. P. 8. C. E. will hold a union service at the Presbyterian church next Saturday evening. Rev. B. E. Utz will deliver a sermon, subject, "Charity.” Services begin at 7p. m. All are invited. Strictly speaking, we are undoubtedly "in it” this year. Farmers, if you have not yet seen our varied and excellent line of implements this year do not fail to call and see us before buying. We are positively going to offer you some surprising ly low prices onjlral clam goods. Hammond Bros. The pupils of Miss Blanche Alter’s school engaged in a snake hunt one day last week, armed with hatchets, clubs, etc. and were making sad havoc with his snakeship when Blanche Ponsler stepping on one and screaming as girls generally do under such circumstances,, brought to her relief Frank Robinson who, striking furiously with his hatchet at the reptile, struck the little girl’s foot and gave her such a wound that she had to be hauled home. This little girl, in all probability, will not see school again this ternfc. Nearly all of this week has been taken up in the circuit court in the trial of Sherman Cooper on the charge of stealing 200 pounds of meat from James Comer of the value of about SIU on or about the night of April 30, 1891. Joseph Conrad was tried about a year ago on the same charge and was sent to the penitentiary for one year. His term but recently expired and he was brought to Rensselaer to testify in this case. The larger part of Barkley township was present as Witnesses at the trial and much interest w’as manifested. The case went to the jury at a late hour Wednesday night and yesterday morning a verdict of "not guilty” was returned. The jury were a little over an hour in arriving at their verdict. Thompson and ChWcote defended the case and Brown presecuted it

Important Intelligence From All Parts. U. S. SENATE IN EXTRA SESSION. In the senate on the 22d Mr. Manderson resigned his position as president pro tern. and Mr. Harris, of Tennessee, was elected in his place. The following nominations were received from the president: John S. Seymour, cf Connecticut, to be commissioner of patents; Silas W. Lamoreux, of Wisconsin, to be commissioner of the general land office; Horace H. Lurton, of Tennessee, to be United States circuit judge for the Sixth judicial circuit, and Max Judd, of Missouri, to be consul general of the United States to Vienna. The senate on the 23d confirmed the nominations for public positions previously sent in by the president No other business was transacted and an adjournment was taken until the 87th. In the senate on the 27th the elections committee reported in favor of seating the three men appointed as senators from the states of Montana. Wyoming and Washington Among the nominations received from the president were the following: Samuel E. Mores, of Indiana, to be consul general at Paris; C. W. Chancellor, of Maryland, to be consul at Havre; Allen B. Morse, of Michigan, to be consul at Glasgow; George F. Parker, of New York, to be consul at Birmingham. DOMESTIC. A T. Freeaian murdered his wife and child at Tyertown, Tex. Domestic trouble was given as the cause. J. J. Ervers fatally injured Mrs. Christian Onstall at Gridley, Cal., and then killed himself. She was engaged to marry Ervers but had jilted him. Mrs. Onstall was a divorced Woman with five children. At Laramie, Wyo., VV. ‘J. Hunter, incensed at his wife for having him arrested for beating her, shot her fatally and then shot himself dead. “Mother” Mandelbaum, the famous New York “fence” and accomplished criminal, is dead. For nearly nine years she has lived like a princess in Canada, where she found refuge when she fled from New York, leaving her bondsmen in the lurch. A fire swept away a large portion of the town of Pauhuska, Oklahoma, and five lives were lost. The sale of a negro at Mexico, Mo., was stopped by proceedings instituted by George Robertson, a leading attorney, who will test the constitutionality of the vagrant Jaw of the state. A CLAM mine, full of little necks, and of great breadth and depth, was discovered at the mouth of the Delaware bay, near Cape May, N. J. A cyclone wiped the town of Kelly, Miss., off the face of the earth, not a soul being left to tell the tale. Great damage was also done at Tunica and Cleveland, in the same state, and twen-ty-five persons were killed. The supreme council of the Patrons of Industry in session at Detroit, Mich., elected R. P. Kerrick, of Durell, Pa., as supreme president. The Morgan, a fashionable apartment house in Cleveland, 0., was burned, and Mrs. Mary E. Abbey, Mrs. Jesse Hunt and her daughter, Mrs. Emma Somers and Mrs. P. G. Somers perished in the flames. The cotton firm of Dobbins & Dazly, of Nashville, Tenn., with branch houses in Memphis, New Orleans, Little Rock, Montgomery, Mobile and other cities, failed for $300,000. J. C. Davis, a grocer at Sedalia, Mo., who was in love with Miss Mary, the 17-year-old daughter of M. A. Miller, a prominent real estate dealer, shot her dead because she refused his attentions and then killed himself. The east wing of the state prison at Jeffersonville, Ind., was destroyed by fire.

A windstorm at Indianapolis wrecked several buildings, causing a loss of *IOO,OOO. Ella Fugate, 13 years old, daughter of J. E. Fugate, of Brazil, Ind,, has not eaten a mouthful of victuals for the last twenty-five days and persistently refuses subsistence in any form. Grief over the death of a brother is the cause. A sole-leather trust wa j formed in New York with a capital of $80,000,090. Secretary Carlisle signed vouchers to the amount of $250,120 in favor of the world’s fair commission, which is payable in souvenir half dollars. The commission up to this time has received *1,920, W 0 of the *2,500,000 appropriation by congress payable in souvenir half dollars. At the third annual convention in Louisville. Ky., of the National Association of Skilled Glass Workers Albert Paulson, of New Albany, Ind., was elected president. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the wesk ended on the 24th aggregated *1,227,224,418, against *1,231,454,629 the previous week. The increase as compared with the corresponding week of 1892 was 6.5. The livery barn of George Faurot at Lima, 0., was burned by an incendiary fire and eight head of fast horses belonging to prominent sportsmen were burned, together with several other horses. In the United States during the seven days ended on the 24th the business failures numbered 243, against 220 the preceding week and 231 for the corresponding time last year. A tornado that passed over Indianapolis wrecked fifty houses, caus-ing-a loss of ovpr *IOO,OOO, and several persons were seriously injured. The Thirty-seventh general assembly of the state of Missouri has adjourned sine die. , Maj. C. C. Wilcox, formerly of the Thirteenth. Tennessee regiment and noted as being in command of the troops that killed Gen. John Morgan, the confederate raider, at Greenville, Tenn., died at his residence in Emporia, Kan. The vault in the register of deeds office at Newton, Kan., was broken open and the county records destroyed. The loss cannot be made good for less than *100,090. George W. Selby, of Macon county, and his brother Oscar, of Peoria, IIL, were drowned in the lake by the up•Ottogof »skiff. |

Louis Michael was hanged at St Martinsville, La. for participating in the murder of Robertsoh and his daughter in August 1891. It was the first legal execution which had taken place there in forty years. Two firemen were killed and a number badly injured at a fire in the Summit Fuel & Feed company’s house at Denver. Flames destroyed the Weber building in Chicago, causing® loss of 8150,000 to the various firms that occupied it The Chicago Inter Ocean celebrated the twenty-first annivertay of its birth by the issue of 200,000 copies. Each eopy of the paper consists of sixty pages. Anton Wood, the 11-year-old murderer of Joseph Smith, was found guilty at Denver, Col., and sentenced to life imprisonment An explosion of gas at the Oak Hill colliery near Minersville, Pa., killed John Morgan and William Purcell and injured three others. # An earthquake shock lasting thirty seconds was felt at Helena,’ Mont, but ne damage was reported. Advices from Memphis say that the damage done by the recent cyclone in the Mississippi valley would reach 82,000,009. One-half of the state penitentiary at Nashville, which covers eighty acres of ground, was torn to pieces, entailing an enormous loss. Bi- the upsetting of a skiff in Bigbee river near Mount Sterling, Ala., Hubert and John Dix and Edward Westcott were drowned. The trial trip of the new battleship showed it to be the fastest armored vessel in the world. The government of Spain, through the state department at Washington, has officially tendered to the United States as a gift the reproduced flagship of Columbus, the Manta Maria. Elizabeth and Raymond Yost, aged 5 and 7 years respectively, were fatally poisoned at Sedalia, Mo., by eating canned plums. The barge Equator was lost off Fenwick islands (Va.) light, and Capt. John Feehan, of Philadelphia, and his crew of three men perished. The thriving town of Lynnville, Tenn., was swept by a fire which wiped out the business portion of the place. The strike of over 7,000 miners in the Monongahela (Pa.) valley that commenced July 1 last has ended in a victory for the employers. The Sandusky Insurance company of Toledo, 0., has failed with assets of 850,000 and liabilities of SIOO,OOO. Two custom inspectors at Portland, Ore., were suspended for allowing six-ty-seven Chinamen to land in violation of the exclusion act. The French legation at Washington has been raised to the rank of an embassy. A blonde at Youngstown, 0., began eating roasted coffee inorder to change her complexion to a brunette. She now eats a pound a day and cannot break herself of the habit, which is rapidly killing her. The big clothing lockout was inaugurated in New York by the manufacturers when 500 employes were paid off. Frank Ackerson, aged SO; George Dow, aged 24, and Henry Dow, ageu 15, were drowned at Marietta, 0., by the upsetting of a boat. The Commercial national bank of Nashville, Tenn., suspended, owing depositors $500,000,

Flames destroyed the shoe factory of Snedicor <fc Hathaway in Detroit, the loss being *150,000. A fire among business buildings at Tyler, Tex., caused a loss of *IOO,OOO. During the progress of the work on the world’s fair grounds in Chicago eighteen men have been killed and 610 have been injured. Jode Holloway, John Bell and Seth Calhoun were fatally shot by a negro at Fort White, Fla. The district a£U>rney’s office and the pc lice superintendent have decided to close up all the pool rooms in Buffalo, N. Y. Pancoast, the cebrated trotting stallion belonging to Ben Johnson and valued at *38,000, died at Bardstown, Ky., On the 27th Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Maxwell appointed 100 fourth-class postmasters, and of this number sixty-seven were to fill vacancies caused by the removal of the incumbents. Judge Billings, of the United States circuit court at New Orleans, says that a combination among laborers to allow no work to be done in moving goods and merchandise is forbidden by the interstate commerce law. Francis M. Bowie, a millionaire living near Upper Marlboro, Md.. was murdered and his body thrown in a well J. W. Johnson (colored) was arrested on suspicion. R. Irveng Latimer, who was serving a life sentence in the prison at Jackson, Mich., for murdering his mother, made his escape after fatally poisoning G. W. Haight, one of the guards. Frank Marshall’s elevator in Chicago, containing 100,000 bushels of wheat, was burned, entailing a loss of *IOO,OOO. The visible supply of grain in the United States on the 27th was: Wheat, 73,211,000 bushels; corn, 15,101,000 bushels; oats, 4,599,000 bushels; rye, 9-54,000 bushels; barley, 1,173,000 bushels. Bandits robbed the bank at Caney, Kan., of *4,000. The Mechanics' savings bank, with a capital of $500,000, and the Bank of Commerce, with a-capital of *250,000, closed their doors at Nashville, Tenh. The stable containing Kirk Bros. ’ racing string was burned at Mason City, la., and several valuable horses perished in the flames. Loss, *IOO,OOO. R- W. Bear, a Dunkard preacher, dropped dead while offering prayer in the pulpit at Abilene, Kan. The elastic web concerns of the country which manufacture rubber goring for the shoe trade are about to pool their issuerThe Elm Park Methodist Episcopal church at Scranton, Pa., was destroyed by fire, causing g, loss of *125,000; insurance, $30,000. |

A syndicate headed by Charles R. Flint has pm chased the New York Times for 8950.000. In a fight between moonshiners near Danville, Ky., Dick Crowder shot and killed James Meader and John Harp. The stables belonging to John Teneyck near Leadville, CoL, were burned, and twenty-five imported draft horses were cremated. Hobace O’Donoghue, aged 48, a wealthy Chicago publisher, killed himself with a razor while temporarily insane. The house of Oliver Sanders near Neillsville, Wis., was burned, and Mr. Sanders and two of his children perished in the flames. Two families, consisting of Acy Harlowe and wife and Peter Wolfrey and wife, were foully murdered at their home in Cooper county, Mo. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Col. Elliot Fitch Shepard, editor of the Mail and Express, died suddenly at his home in New York from the effects of ether taken that he might undergo a surgical operation. He was 59 years of age. CoL Shepard married Miss Marguerite Louise Vanderbilt, the oldest daughter of William H. Vanderbilt, and she and five children survive him. Mr. Shepard was president of the American Sabbath union and founded the State Bar association and was its first president Rev. John Souder, a Methodist minister, died at his home iu Tiffin, 0., aged 95 years. He had lived there seventy years and had been in the ministry for fifty-one years. • Rev. Dr. Ashley died at bls’ home in Milwaukee at the age of 81. For fiftyfour years he was a minister of the Episcopal church. Stephen Strange (colored) died at Lovelady, Tex., aged 105 years. The Massachusetts socialists in state convention in Boston nominated Patrick F. O’Neil, of Boston, for governor. Rev. George R. Bliss, D. D., professor of Biblical theology at Croser theological seminary, died at Chester, Pa., aged 77 years.

FOREIGN. A band of revolutionists entered the town of Allegretta, Chili, which they sacked. The residents resisted the ravages, and in the fight which followed forty persons were killed. The court of arbitration appointed to adjust the difficulties between the United States and Great Britain in regard to the seal fisheries in Behring sea met in Paris. Two men from New Orleans committed suicide on the casino grounds at Monte Carlo. Their names were given as Weill and Robb. They had lost heavily. The Russian government has suspended the coinage of silver rubles for the reason that the silver ruble is now cheaper than paper. The yarn spinning mill of the Rivett company in Stockport, England, was burned, the loss being $250,000. Rome was in a state of great excitement cause by a workingman having struck King Humbert with a stone as he was returning from the Villa Borghes. The French Canadians of Montreal are organizing committees among French speaking people in the United States to iivvarfcn a sentiment in favor of annexation. Tee voled.no at San Martin in Mexico is now in a stat-e of eruption, after having been extinot for more than a century. M. Challemel Lacour was elected president of the French senate in place of Jules Ferry, deceased. The office of the Daily Herald at Montreal was burned, the loss being $125,000.

LATER. Resolutions for the election of officers of the United States senate —W. R. Cox, of North Carolina, as secretary; Richard J. Bright, of Indiana, as ser-geant-at-arms, and Rev. Mr. Milburn as chaplain—were presented on the 28th, but action was postponed. A resolution was offered directing the commit tee on privileges and elections to investigate the allegations of criminal embezzlement against Senator Roach, of North Dakota, and to report the facts, and what the duty of the senate is in relation thereto. A gang of counterfeiters was discovered plying their trade in the state penitentiary at Little Rock, Ark. The Choctaw feud resulted in a desperate encounter at Antlers, 1. T., in which ten persons were killed and fifteen others were wounded. The breaking of the great ice gorge in the Delaware river at Washington’s Crossing, N. J., and the consequent subsiding of the water on the farm lands along the Delaware caused a loss of $1,000,000. Frank Nicolin, a miller at Jordan, Minn., failed for $120,000. Barney McFadden, a miner living near Scranton. Pa., murdered his wife and child and then escaped. No cause was known. The boiler at the Conrad stone quarry in Franklin county, Ala., exploded, and John Bur field, James Ferguson and Crockett Gray were killed. Gen. E. Kirby Smith, the last of the full ex-confederate generals, died at his home in Sewanee, Tenn., in his 69th year. The funeral of the late Elliott F. Shepard took place from the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church in New York. , A. R. Sutton, a liquor dealer at Louisville, Ky., was charged with forging whisky warehouse receipts to the extent of *200,000. R. Irving Latimer, who escaped from the Jackson (Mich.) prison after fatally pftisoning Keeper Haight, was captured at Jerome and returned to the prison. Edward Sterrett, a physician at Auburn, Neb., shot his wife because she had left him and them killed himself. A battle near Tatumbia, Honduras, resulted in the defeat of the government troops with a loss of more than 100. Nearly one-fifth of the revolut ion ary soldiers were slaughtered and after the battle the bodies of all the men found on the field were collected in a heap and burned.