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

LATER.

The Belgium chamber of deputies has adopted universal suffrage by a vote of 119 to 12. It was expected that this act would quiet the popular excitement and agitation which had been rapidly assuming the dimensions of a general insurrection throughout the empire. The twenty-eighth session of the Minnesota legislature came to a close. A cyclone at Lyndon, Kan., blew down the courthouse and jail and the Methodist church and killed Henry Hirsh. Thomas M. Bakr & Co., coffee brokers in New York city, failed for $300,000. The immense Ijusna Voxuna sawing works at Soederhamn, Sweden, were destroyed by fire, the loss being- $600,000. Thieves took from the safe of George Wilkinson's jewelry store at Mansfield, 0., watches and diamonds valued at §O,OOO. Charles R. Williams, managing editor of the Cleveland (O.) Plaindealer, dropped dead in his office of apoplexy. A cyclone wrecked forty buildings at Osage City, Kan., killed Anderson Wagner and his wife and injured twenty other persons. An explosion at the Buck-Ivanhoe tunnel near Leadville, Col., killed five men and seriously injured several others. Cassville, the county seat of Barry county, Mo., was almost wholly destroyed by fire, the loss being §150,000. The town of Boles, Ark., was almost entirely destroyed by a cyclone and seven persons were killed and a large number injured. Fob the nine months of .the fiscal year ended March 31, 1893, the aggregate receipts from internal revenue sources were §120,510,056, a gain over the corresponding period of 1892 of 17,208,078. The dowager duchess of Sutherland was sent to the common prison in London for six weeks and fined £250 by the probate court justice for contempt of court. Fere in the village of Jaszladany, Hungary, destroyed 120 houses and killed two persons. The Lansing (Mich.). Lumber company and the Lansing Iron & Engine works, the former with a capital of §200,000 and the latter capitalized at §IOO,OOO, and both under the management of Orlando F. Barnes, executed mortgages covering all their property. Mr. Barnes was also president of the Central Michigan savings bank and the doors of that institution were closed.