People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1893 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. DOMESTIC. A train on the Iron Mountain railroad jumped the track near Victoria Station, Mo., and seven persons were injured. IN their ninth annual report the civil service commissioners urge that the classified service be extended as rapidly as practicable to cover every position in the public service possible, and hope that a bill may pass congress to take the fourth-class postmasters out of politics. The whole number of places subject to competitive examination under the rules is now 42,928. THE governor of Tennessee ordered troops to Tracy City to suppress a miners’ riot. ALL the gambling houses in Louisville, Ky., were closed by order of the mayor. AT Salina, Kan., a mob of 500 citizens lynched Dan Adams, a young negro, for having assaulted Agent Stout of the Union Pacific freight office with a razor. ALL over Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin and Iowa a violent blizzard raged, accompanied by hail, sleet and snow, stopping all travel and wrecking many barns and several houses. A STEAM scow was upset in the river at Lock Haven, Pa., and three men were drowned. MINERS made a desperate attempt to liberate the convicts from the stockade at Tracy City, Tenn., and during the battle two men were killed and a dozen others were wounded. FURTHER advices from the cyclone in Jasper, Clarke and Jones counties in Mississippi state that over 200 homes were ruined and nearly fifty persons were killed. A negro named Henry German with his wife and nine children were imprisoned under the ruins of his cabin, and fire originating from a stove slowly roasted the unfortunate wretches. An Ohio River railroad train was derailed on the twelve-pole trestle near Ceredo, Ky., and one man was killed and thirteen other persons were seriously injured. THE town of Shubuta, Miss., was demolished by a tornado. WARNER, a town of 1,000 inhabitants in the Cour d’Alene mining district of Washington, was destroyed by fire. Loss, $300,000. A CYCLONE struck Midland City, Ala., and destroyed a dozen residences, four stores and two warehouses.

IN some portions of Minnesota the snow was 3 feet deep on a level. THE business portion and thirty houses of the little town of Water Valley, N. Y., were destroyed by fire. A TERRIFIC hurricane swept over Nebraska and windmills, barns and hay stacks were overturned and wrecked and several persons were more or less injured. THE citizens of Lexington, Mass., celebrated the 118th anniversary of the firing of the “Shot heard around the world.” FOR over forty-eight hours Lake Michigan was lashed into frenzy by a tempest and several vessels were driven ashore near Chicago, others were wrecked and several lives were lost. THE new waterworks crib at Milwaukee was washed away during a terrific storm and fourteen men lost their lives THE exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 21st aggregated $1,242,015,644, against $1,210,901,192 the previous week. The increase as compared with the corresponding week of 1892 was 18.6. FRANCIS D. HARRIS, a prominent young man at New Haven, Conn., died, and when his wife was told of his death she took her own life with a pistol. THE rivers in Minnesota and Dakota were booming, and the Red river valley, the great wheat region of the north, was one sea of water almost from Fargo to the Manitoba border. BUSINESS failures to the number of 208 occurred in the United States in the seven days ended on the 21st, against 209 the preceding week and 201 for the corresponding time last year. REPORTS made to the comptroller of the currency by the 3,806 national banks doing business in the United States show that in round numbers these banks have $100,000,000 in gold coin and gold treasury certificates and gold clearing house certificates approximating $75,000,000. THE $100,000,000 gold reserve of the government has been depleted to the amount of $2,700,000. BY a fire in one of the shafts of the Butte and Boston company at Butte, Mont., nine miners were cut off from escape and were either burned to death or suffocated. Father Vandever, a priest in the parish at Butte, Mont., was said to have squandered $62,000 belonging to the church. FATHER CHARLES FLAHERTY, of Mount Morris, N. Y., on trial at Geneseo for criminal intimacy with Mary Sweeney, a parishioner under 16 years of age, was found guilty. WILLIAM P. GASPER, a colored hod carrier at Kensington, Pa., is heir to $10,000 left him by a slavery days mistress, Miss Mary Struthers, living near New Philadelphia, O. ROHLE and Pallister, two murderers under sentence of death, escaped from the prison at Sing Sing by throwing pepper in the guard’s eyes. They are both New York men. STORM damaged to the extent of $100,000 the United States ship canal connecting the Harlem and Hudson rivers in New York. A CYCLONE in Virginia did great damage at Danville, South Boston, Martinsville, Greensboro and other towns. THE home of Julius Manthieu at Beaver Falls, Pa., was burned, and Mr. Maethieu and his wife perished in the

A WELLS-FARGO express car was burned near Albuqurque, N. M., and $75,000 in gold in one of the safes was melted. ELEVEN white caps, some of them the most prominent men in Carrollton, Ga., were sentenced in the superior court to twelve months in the chain gang. A STORM in the Ohio oil fields wrecked over 100 wells, the Standard Oil company alone losing over $200,000. THE government expenditures so far this month have been heavy, exceeding the receipts by over $2,000,000. The receipts have been $22,700,000 and expenditures $24,900,000, and this has had the effect of reducing the net cash balance in the treasury to $24,905,000. DURING a recent storm in the oystergrowing districts along the Connecticut coast the oyster crop was almost ruined, the loss being estimated at over $500,000. THE schooner Newell Eddy, with a crew of eight men, foundered on Lake Huron, and all were supposed to be lost. THE Bank of Milbank, S. D., made an assignment with liabilities of over $100,000. THE hide firm of Benjamin McLean & Co., one of the oldest institutions in Kansas City, Mo., failed for $110,000. “JOHN BULL,” the first locomotive ever put in service on the old Camden & Amboy railroad, with its two passenger coaches built in 1836, arrived in Chicago for exhibition at the world’s fair. THE Friend & Formy Paper company at Franklin, O., failed, with liabilities of $200,000. THE two leading business blocks at Colfax, Wash., were destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $250,000. JACK BRADY (colored) was hanged at Bendersville, N. C., for the murder of L. D. Taylor, a white man, last August. Brady confessed his crime. THE Surrey Lumber company’s mills at Dendron, Va., with 6,000,000 feet of lumber, were burned, the loss being $600,000. THE Tennessee legislature has passed an act authorizing state banks to issue currency redeemable in gold and silver. COL. CLARK E. K. ROYCE, treasurer of the Veterans’ Home association at Yountville, Cal., was said to be $20,000 short in his accounts. JOHN S. SMITH and his wife and three small children were struck by a train at a crossing in Jackson township, near Wabash, Ind., and all were killed. DURING the recent storm on Lake Michigan fifteen vessels were wrecked, nine lives were lost and property valued at $290,000 was destroyed. GEORGE A. PEARCE, who in 1888 was secretary of the Planters’ & Merchants’ Insurance company of Mobile, Ala., and decamped with $102,000 of the company’s funds, has been found at Abilene, Tex. THE great strike of the Santa Fe mechanics at Topeka, Kan., which began April 8, has been declared off. The terms upon which the men return to work make it an unconditional surrender of the strikers and a complete victory for the company. JOHN L. ABBOTT, United States minister to the United States of Colombia, informs the department of state that the Colombian government has increased the duty on spirituous liquors, ready-made clothing and other articles. FROM all portions of Mississippi it was reported that cotton had either been killed or greatly injured by the recent cold spell and frost and that there was no seed for replanting. THE McConnell-Maguire company at Moscow, the largest mercantile house in Idaho, of which Gov. McConnell is the head, was closed by the sheriff on attachments for $100,000. THE recent A. G. Yates failure at Rochester, N. Y., caused the failures at Columbus, O., of the Columbus Coal company, the Ohio Coal Exchange company and the Jacksonville Store company, the total liabilities being over $1,000,000.

THE visible supply of grain in the United States on the 24th was: Wheat, 74,871,000 bushels; corn, 12,329,000 bushels; oats, 3,852,000 bushels; rye, 787,000 bushels; barley, 759,000 bushels. JOHN PETERSON (colored) was lynched by a mob at Denmark, S. C., on the charge of criminally assaulting Bessie Baxter, a 15-year-old girl. There was every reason to believe that Peterson was innocent. THE foundation to an interior wall in the Gard company’s electric plant in Cincinnati gave way, causing a wall to fall, and one bricklayer was killed outright and seven were injured, four fatally. THE discovery was made that the five-dollar currency notes of the Lagonda bank at Springfield, O., have been counterfeited. JOHN SWEENEY and Patrick Walsh, first cousins, who were born in Ireland seventy years ago on the same day, died of old age on the same day in Clifton City, Mo. THE Northwestern elevator at Bellingham, Minn, and about 100,000 bushels of wheat were burned, the loss being $100,000. AFTER four years of open gambling the gamblers of Springfield, O., have closed up by order of the mayor. AT Geneseo, N. Y., Judge Nash sentenced Father Flaherty, who was found guilty of criminal assault on a young girl, to seven years and six months in prison. THREE Frenchmen named Triquois, Alphonz Ranger and Cyrille Fourtier while scuffling on a raft at East Gray, Me., were drowned. JULIUS FALK, Martin Arelt and Charles Liptak while quarreling capsized a skiff at Cleveland, O., and Falk and Arelt were drowned. RICHARD VERBYKE and Isaac Monroe, stillmen at the Solar refinery in Lima, O., were fatally burned by a still blowing off. THE First regiment armory in Chicago was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of over $200,000, and two negro porters lost their lives in the flames and two other men were probably fatally burned. THE steamer Ohio, from Buffalo to Chicago with coal, was wrecked while enroute and Capt. B. F. Evans and four sailors were thought to have been lost. COL. EDWIN H. WEBSTER died at his home in Belair, Md. He was elected a member of congress in 1859 and was reelected three times in succession.

THE American ship Jabez Howes, Capt. Henry, arrived in San Francisco from New York, having made the voyage of 14,000 miles in 106 days.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. THE New York legislature has adjurned sine die. AFTER a lingering illness of many months Mrs. Almina Hancock, widow of Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock, died in New York at the residence of the general’s niece, Mrs. Eugene Griffin. COL. WILLIAM McMICHAEL, aged 52, a well-known lawyer and assistant attorney general under Gen. Grant, was found dead in his bed in New York. GEN. EDWARD FITZGERALD BEALE died at his residence in Washington. He served in the Mexican and civil wars, and in 1876 was appointed United States minister to Austria by President Grant. JOHN H. PATRICK, who had been an employe of the pension office in Washington since 1861, was stricken with paralysis at his desk and died in a short time. HORACE WATERS, the pianoforte manufacturer, died at his home in New York in the 81st year of his age. His death was due to a severe cold. "COMICAL" BROWN, known all over the country as a violinist and facial expressionist, died at his home in Boston, aged 60 years. MISS ROSE McDONALD, who never rode on a steam railroad train because, as she stated, they were an invention of the devil, died at Uniontown, Pa., aged 90 years.

FOREIGN. EDWARD HENRY STANLEY, fifteenth earl of Derby, died in London, aged 67 years. A QUEBEC paper has been investigating the exodus from that province and declares that it reaches 20,000 a month. IN an affray in Mexico, just across the line from Phoenix, A. T., Frank Peary and William Brook, miners, killed the Mexican sheriff and five other Mexicans. Both the Americans escaped. THE revolution in Honduras was said to be at an end and the government was again in control. THE emperor of Russia has signed the extradition treaty between the United States and Russia. THE details of the calamity that befel the island of Zante, in Greece, show that since the beginning of April there had been a total of 100 earthquake shocks, there were not in the city of Zante fifty houses safe for the people to live in and 150 persons lost their lives. BOWEN & CO.’s wholesale liquor establishment in Montreal was damaged $100,000 by fire. THE barge Plymouth, Capt. Wyman, from Newport News for New York, foundered off Barnegat, N. B., and the captain’s wife and two men were drowned. EXTENSIVE and rich deposits of tin were found near Guyanjuato, Mexico, the mines giving evidence of having been worked by the Aztecs or some other race centuries ago. AN express train running between Santiago and Valparaiso was wrecked and many persons were said to have been burned to death. TEN acres of timber belonging to the Wade company at the Victoria dock in Hull, England, were burned, the loss being over $500,000. The fire was said to have started by striking dockers. SIXTY of the provisional guard at Honolulu were poisoned by some drug put in their milk by their enemies, the medicine men. DURING a panic in a church in Naples caused by a slight fire eight women and five children were crushed to death and hundreds of others were injured.

LATER. IN Sioux City, Ia., the Union Stock Yards company failed for $800,000, the Hedges Trust company for $250,000, the Sioux City stove works for $350,000 and the Union Loan & Trust company for $745,000. WILLIAM EVERETT (dem.) was elected to congress from the Seventh district of Massachusetts by 14 majority. IN Oklahoma territory a cyclone struck near Moore, killing ten persons and doing much damage to property. Near Norman great damage was also done and eleven persons lost their lives. THE Ohio republicans will hold their state convention in Columbus June 7. CHRIS NEIMAN, a farmer at Laona, Ill., while insane set fire to his barn and thirty head of cattle and six horses were cremated. Nieman then shot and killed himself. THE Exeter Investment Trust company in London failed for $525,000. AN examination by experts from the agricultural department in Washington showed that two-thirds of the coffee sold throughout the country was adulterated. THE greater part of the village of Byng Inlet, Ont., was destroyed by fire. Loss, $200,000. THE president has appointed L. F. McKinney, of New Hampshire, to be minister to Colombia; Thomas L. Thompson, of California, minister to Brazil, and George W. Caruth, of Arkansas, minister to Portugal. GILES BRO. & CO., one of the oldest jewelry firms in Chicago, failed for $100,000.

IN a railroad wreck near Somerset, Pa., John E. Pile and his wife and daughter and seven quarrytnen were killed and several other persons were fatally injured. CAPT. R. T. EVANS and four men, who were supposed to have been lost off the steamer Ohio in the recent gale on Lake Michigan, arrived in Cheboygan. LIEUT. JAMES L. SMITH, U. S. A., retired, died in Washington in his 52d year. DURING the absence of R. A. Honea (colored) and his wife their house near Aberdeen, Miss., was burned and their three children perished in the flames. A. B. HEPBURN, who has just retired from the comptrollership of the currency, has been elected president of the Third national bank of New York. SIXTY-EIGHT of the famous 306 followers of Gen. Grant at the Chicago convention of 1880 met in Philadelphia and formed the “306 Old Guard association,” ex-Gov. George S. Boutwell, of Massachusetts, being elected president.