People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1893 — DOMESTIC. [ARTICLE]

DOMESTIC.

The extensive planing 1 mills and lumber yard of Rarely, Voorhis & Co. in Brooklyn, N. Y., were burned, the loss being- $250,000. Cyclones and windstorms passed over portions of nine states, doinggreat damage. In Indiana buildings were wrecked at Jeffersonville, Kokomo, Greencastle anti Rockport, Mr. and Mrs. Frank being killed in the latter place. At Ypsilanti, Mich., nearly all the business buildings and several residences were demolished. In Mississippi the town of Robinsonville was swept away and several persons were killed and many injured. At Coudrav, Mo., only three houses were left standing, nine persons were killed and fifty others were injured, some fatally. In other portions of Missouri trees, fences, houses and barns were demolished and .many persons killed and injured. In Illinois many buildings were unroofed and trees leveled at Rockford, Quincy, Galena, Alton, Vandalia, Olney and at other points. Kansas and lowa also suffered from the tornado. The cyclone that wiped out the town of Robinsojiville, Tenn., killed seventeen persons and injured over 100 others, some fatally. The town of Saline, Mich., with a population of 1,500, was entirely wiped out by a cyclone. Ox a farm at Bradford, Wis., Matthew Bitson, during a quarrel, shot and killed his wife and Mrs. Arthur Hearn, a neighbor who was acting as peacemaker, and then burned the house in which the two women lay and made his escape. The loss by prairie fires in Somerset and Blair counties in Pennsylvania was placed at $200,000. In a fire in a tenement house at WilJ liamsburg, N. Y., Mrs. William Ainsworth and two of her children were burned to death and five other persons were more or less seriously injured. The A. S. Holmes oil refinery at Buffalo, N. Y., covering twelve acres of ground, together with 30,000 barrels of oil, were burned, the loss being over $300,000. Mbs. Mary Getchefsky, of Greensburg, Pa., cut her new-born child into small pieces and threw the remains into the sewer. The recent cyclone at Ypsilanti, Mich., destroyed all of the principal business blocks, stores, the opera house, post office, hotels and 150 dwelling bouses. No person was fatally injured. Jeffeson D. Barnett (white) was murdered by a negro near Eufaula, Ala. His murderer was run down by a posse, shot and wounded and then burned. The village of Hillsboro, Ind., was almost completely blown away by a tornado. The recent cyclone in Missouri killed eight persons at Hawkins Bank, five at Lexington, two at Stanbury, two at Steeletille and five at Page. A large number of persons in the places named were injured, some fatally. William Bond (colored) was hanged at Rockville, Md., for the murder of Margaret Cephas (colored) November 23, 1891. The exchanges at the leading clear ing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 14th aggregated $1,210,901,192, against $1,198,742,949 the previous week. The increase as compared with the corresponding week of 1892 was 9.6. A CYCLONE which struck Thibodeaux, La., and vicinity wrecked several buildings, killed fifteen persons and injured many others. Two policemen named Frith and Henry Talcott, officers in the employ of the Milwaukee Railroad company at Dubuque, la., were shot dead while attempting to arrest tramps. At Columbus, 6., John E. Mcßride, of Ohio, was elected president and Patrick Mcßride secretary-treasurer of the United Mine W T orkers of America. Business failures to the number of 209 occurred in the United States in the seven dkys ended on the 14th, against 223 the preceding week and 226 for the corresponding time last year. A forest fire in Warren county, N. C., swept over 4 miles of country, destroying over 200 farm buildings and much other property. Fire in the establishment of the L. M. Rtunsey Manufacturing company in St. Louis did nearly $200,000 damages. In the Ohio oil fields over fifty derricks were blown down by heavy winds, causing great damage. Flames in the yards of the West .Michigan Lumber company at Diamond Lake caused a loss of SIOO,OOO.

Up to April 1 there had been expended toward building the world’s fair $16,708,826.48, and the total receipts were $17,496,432. The world’s fair directors met in Chicago and reelected all the old officers with H. N. Higinbotham as president. John Hill, q colored lad of 17 years, was hanged at Camden, N. J., for the shooting on October 16 of Joseph Dodson, also colored. It was reported that thirty men were killed by explosions in the Homestead, Terra and Highland mines near Deadwood, S. D. William Hardin, the foreman of a cattle company who shot and killed a Mexican at Monticello, N. M., was captured by a mob, riddled with bullets, and his body mutilated in a horrible manner. The city stables at Atlanta, Ga., were destroyed by fire and 140 mules perished in the flames. The report of the statistician of the department of agriculture shows that the approximate number of the several classes of farm animals in the whole country is: Horses, 16,207,000; cattle, 52,4’ftj.000; sheep, 47,274,000; swine, 46,095,000. The steamer Nellie Bly blew up near Winamae, Ind., seriously injuring eight persons. Henry Perry was hanged at Bennetts ville, S. C., for the murder of L. D. Taylor, a white man on August 6, 1892, and Charles Scott (colored) was executed at Tyler, Tex., for the murder of B. H. Curtis on July 12. Thomas H. Dudley, of Camden, N. J. ex-consul to Liverpool, dropped dead at a-railway station in Philadelphia. Mat Bitson, the murderer of his wife and Mrs. Hern, was captured at the farmhouse of John Carle, near Clinton, Wis. Twelve of the trunk line railways having termini in Chicago have subscribed for the last $1,000,000 worth of the $5,000,000 of bonds issued by the exposition company to finish the work of building the world’s fair. Mrs. John Budneb, aged 16 years, of Beaver Brook, N. J., gave birth to four children, two boys and two girls. Both mother and children were doing well. The duke of Veragua, a lineal descendant of Christopher Columbus, arrived in New York from Spain to help open the World’s Columbian exposition next month. The Lake Shore Railway company has refused to reinstate the engineers who quit work at Toledo, 0., recently. Nearly the entire business portion of Alto Paso, 111., was destroyed by fire. John Sciiardt, cashier of the Mechanics’ Savings Bank & Trust company at Nashville, Tenn., was said to be $65,000 short in his accounts. The discovery caused the suspension of the bank.

Two miners were killed and three others seriously injured by the caving in of the roof of the Champion coal mine at Wood's Run, Pa. A valuable paint mine was discovered near Pendleton, Ore. Two colors were found, one a deep blue and the other a Venetian red In* Hodgman and Logan counties, Kan., many houses and barns w r ere burned by forest fires and large numbers of horses and cattle perished. In a fight between Italian and Hungarian miners at Milnesville, Pa., two men were killed, two others were pitched down into a deep mine hole filled with water and sLx or eight other men were badly wounded. Henry Schroedfr and his sister and George Reinfeldt were drowned in the harbor at San Francisco by the capsizing of a skiff. Charles Schmidt, aged 40, shot and killed Henry Horn, aged 48, and then killed himself. The men were partners in a chicken ranch at Fairhaven, Wash., and quarreled over a of the profits. The Louisville (Ky.) cotton works plant was destroyed by fire, the loss being SIGO,OOO. The visible supply of grain in the United States on the 17th was: Wheat 76,098,000 bushels; corn, 13,800,000 bushels; oats, 4,189,000 bushels; rye, 837,000 bushels; barley, 807,000 bushels. Owing to a grudge John Johnson, a prisoner at Auburn, N. Y., killed two fellow convicts with a knife and wounded two others. George W. Smith & Sons, lumber dealers at Buffalo, N. Y., failed for SIOO,OOO. The remains of Charles Longfellow, eldest son of the deceased poet, who died at Cambridge, Mass., were cremated at Germantown, Pa. Sekgt. J. W. Warwick, a brave young officer in the United States army, was crushed to death in the government building on the world’s fair grounds by the fall of a heavy gun. The village of Gravel ton, Ind., was completely blown away by a tornado. Wesley Corns was elected mayor of Ironton, 0., for the thirteenth consecutive term.

Flames in the paper mill at Enon Station, 0., caused a loss of SIOO,OOO. A. G. Yates, wholesale coal merchant at Rochester, N. Y., made an assignment, with liabilities of nearly $1,000,000. A block of four-story buildings in Cincinnati was burned, the loss being SIOO,OOO. A JURY in Boston gave Mrs. Susan L. K. Cleveland a verdict for SIO,OOO in her suit against Charlotte W. Lyman for alienation of her husband’s affections. The bureau of statistics in its statements of foreign commerce shows that during the twelve months ended April 1 the excess of imports over exports was $53,626,000. The amount of free gold in the treasury at Washington on the 17th was $40,560. The trial of the United States cruiser Detroit took place at New London, Conn., and the result showed the boat to be the fastest cruiser in the world for her displacement. The queerest railroad train that has been seen in many a long year drew out of New York for Chicago. The locomotive was the first one used on this side of the Atlantic. It is called “John Bulk” The two coaches look like stage coaches on railway wheels. The train will be on exhibit at the world’s fair.

Carter Harrison was inaugurated for the fifth time as mayor of Chicago. Fire in a quantity of baled cotton in the hold of the steamer Chatham at Boston caused a loss of SIOO,OOO.