People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1893 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. DOMESTIC. THE little village of Bonita, Tex., was destroyed by a cyclone and one man was killed and his three children were blown into a well and drowned. A STATUE of John Ericsson, the inventor of the monitor, was unveiled in New York city. E. R. CLARK, a prominent and wealthy iron manufacturer of Pittsburgh, Pa., dropped dead on a street in New York city from heart disease. A CYCLONE swept over the little town of Jenson, Ark., blowing down nine buildings and damaging several others. AL KENNEDY, the noted opium smuggler, was arrested at Niagara Falls in an endeavor to smuggle seventy cans of Turkish opium. THE Ladies’ Cemetery association at Vicksburg, Miss., unveiled a monument in memory of the confederate soldiers who fell in defense of that city. DIRECTOR GENERAL DAVIS in his final report upon the preparatory work of the world’s fair says that $33,243,930.55 have been raised for purposes of the exposition, exclusive of the cost and value of exhibits. THE resignation of John L. Stevens, United States minister to Hawaii, is in the hands of the secretary of state. WILLIAM T. STERLING, aged 74, and Miss Anna Reed, aged 20, were married at Pittsburgh, Pa. Sterling said it was purely a love match, as he had no fortune to attract his wife. THE Red river overflowed its banks for 50 miles in Marshall county, Minn., and spread 5 or 6 miles into the country on each side. Many farmers lost all their stock and at least $100,000 damage was done. THE state department has been advised by the United States minister at Constantinople that the complaints of this government in reference to the burning of the girls’ college at Marsovan, Turkey, have been settled. DIRECTOR GENERAL DAVIS has submitted his final report upon the preparatory work of the world’s fair. It shows the acreage under roof to be 200, 150 acres being covered by the exposition and fifty by the concession buildings, a total of 6,693,300 square feet of space covered. In addition to these are the state and several other buildings. AT Fort Wayne, Ind., Jesse France pointed a revolver supposed to be unloaded at his friend, Henry Wilson, and it was discharged, killing Wilson. A WINDSTORM at Niagara Falls did great damage to the large hotels and many trees were blown down on the islands. DURING the week ended on the 28th the leading clearing houses in the United States reported exchanges amounting to $1,077,422,064, against $1,242,015,644 the previous week. As compared with the corresponding week of 1892 the increase was 8.3. THERE were 238 business failures reported in the United States during the seven days ended on the 28th. In the week preceding there were 208, and during the corresponding time in 1892 the number was 211. EDWARD R. BUNNELL, aged 50, living in Enterprise, Ore., killed his wife and daughter, then himself, because action for divorce had been brought against him.

GUARDED by representatives of two cities the famous old Liberty Bell that proclaimed the declaration of American independence 117 years ago arrived in Chicago, closing a tour of triumph from Philadelphia. FROM ten inches to a foot of snow fell in northern Iowa counties. THE great naval review on the 27th in New York harbor in honor of Columbus was participated in by warships from Argentina, Holland, Germany, Great Britain, Russia, France, Italy, Spain, Brazil and the United States and presented a pageant unparalleled in history. The review was witnessed by over a million persons. At the close of the proceedings the flagship Philadelphia slowly steamed up to Riverside opposite the tomb of Grant and on this day, the 72d anniversary of his birth, fired a salute to his memory. THE Ingham county savings bank at Lansing, Mich., closed its doors, owing to the unsatisfactory condition of the money market EDWARD McELROY, an insane man, entered the room at his home in Providence, R. I., where his mother and a cousin, Miss Healey, were sleeping and cut their throats. He was captured after a struggle in which he severely cut two officers. THE centenary of the Reformed church of America was celebrated at Grace church in Pittsburgh, Pa. JACOB MULLET, while plowing on his farm near Helmick, O., uncovered 150 silver coins, most of them of French mintage of a date as far back as 1775. THE National Baseball league opened its season of 1893 on the 27th. Two of the six games were postponed by rain, viz., the Boston-New York and Phila-delphia-Brooklyn games. The games played resulted as follows: At Cincinnati —Cincinnati, 10; Chicago, 1. At St. Louis—St. Louis, 4; Louisville, 2. At Washington—Washington, 7; Baltimore 5. At Pittsburgh—Clevelahd, 7; Pittsburgh, 2. THE 72d anniversary of the birth of Gen. Grant was celebrated in an appropriate manner at his old home in Galena, Ill., Gov. McKinley, of Ohio, being the orator of the day. ALDRICH & RAY'S tin and copper stamping works at Buffalo, N. Y., were destroyed by fire, the total loss being [$100,000.] CAPT. GILBERT C. WILTSE, of the United States navy, who commanded the Boston when her men raised the stars and stripes at Honolulu January 16, died at his home in New York, aged [illegible] years.

THE trouble between the Navajo Indians and the white settlers in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico caused Gen. McCook, of the department of Arizona, to send troops to the scene of the outbreak. THE world’s fair engine No. 999, a type of the most modern used by the New York Central railroad, took the Empire state express from New York to Buffalo at a speed of 86¼ miles an hour. THE naval review ceremonies were brought to an end in New York in the shape of a street parade participated in by the marines and blue jackets of all the nations represented in the review except Spain. HEAVY withdrawal of deposits caused the Second national bank of Columbia, Tenn., to suspend. REPORTS from Washington say that the exports have increased by $75,000,000 during the first three months of the year. The most notable advance was in cotton manufactures, pig iron and corn. DURING an entertainment at the Methodist church at Fairview, Pa., a panic was caused by a premature explosion of some colored lights, and many persons were seriously injured in the rush for the doors.

THE settlement of the miners’ strike in the Pittsburgh district by deciding to accept the wage scale of last year has a national effect. It puts an end to the prospective strike of nearly 30,000 miners in the United States. CLIFFORD RUNYAN, aged 14, died in horrible agony at Springfield, O., from nicotine poisoning. His last act was to smoke seventy-two cigarettes without stopping. MRS. L. E. FINNEY, the pretty young wife of L. F. Finney, a prosperous merchant at Huntsville, Ark., has distinguished herself by presenting her husband with five baby girls, all within the space of one year. JIM BURKE and Sam Massey (both colored) were hanged at Benham, Tex., the former for killing Mrs. J. W. Smith and the latter for a criminal assault on Mrs. B. F. Clements. Over 10,000 persons witnessed the execution. THE Standard Oil company has secured control of its chief living rival, the Manhattan Oil company of Findlay, O. The property transferred by the deal is valued at $15,000,000. FIVE prominent citizens of Colbert county, Ala., have been indicted by the United States grand jury at Huntsville for intimidating voters at the last presidential election. E. L. HARPER, the wrecker of the Fidelity bank of Cincinnati, was freed from the penitentiary at Columbus. CHARLES CALDWELL, a negro, was hanged at Jonesboro, Ark., for the murder of Tab Freeman, also a negro, at Big Bay February 18 last. The two had quarreled about a woman.

FOR the ten months of the current fiscal year the receipts of government from all sources aggregated $324,589,393, or $20,000,000 more than during the corresponding months of the preceding fiscal year. The expenditures during the same time were $332,377,552, or $32,500,000 more than during the corresponding months of the preceding fiscal year. MRS. MARY JENSEN, a wealthy widow, aged 52, was shot and killed at Seattle, Wash., by N. A. Sandborn, aged 28, who then killed himself. Mrs. Jensen’s refusal to marry him caused the tragedy. DURING a heavy snowstorm in Wyoing ranchmen last over 1,600 sheep, the animals being smothered in the snow. THE World’s Columbian exposition at Chicago was opened on the 1st in the presence of nearly 500,000 persons. At noon the president of the United States, after a brief address, pressed the electric button, and the vast machinery of the exposition was set in motion. The nature of the opening ceremony was characterized by dignity and simplicity. FOUR women jumped from a street car in Toledo, O., and one was killed and the others were fatally injured. They were frightened at the approach of an engine while crossing a railway. OWING to a family quarrel John H. Engels fatally shot Thomas Kamerling, his brother-in-law, at Wauwatosa, Wis., and then killed himself. THE bank of Salem, S. D., was forced to assign by inability to raise a loan of $50,000. The liabilities were $70,000. OWING to a law now in effect absolute divorce is legally impossible in Massachusetts.

TWENTY thousand miners in Ohio struck for an advance of five cents per ton in price of mining. THE most terrific cyclone that ever visited Texas devastated Cisco and Eastland county, laying waste everything in its path, which was about threefourths of a mile wide. All but about fifty houses in Cisco were wrecked, not a church or schoolhouse was standing and but one house was intact. Thirty persons were killed and over 100 were injured. The most conservative estimates placed the total property loss at over $2,000,000. FIRE in Milwaukee destroyed the dry goods store and stock of Edward Schuster & Co., entailing a loss of $100,000. A BOARDING house at Burlington, Ia., was destroyed by fire and six men perished in the flames and several other persons were injured. THE curing factory of Stephen Dow & Co. at Woburn, Mass., was burned, the loss being $175,000. JOSEPH HALSON, an insane man, killed his wife and seven children near St. Augustine, Tex., and then killed himself. A TORNADO in Wayne county, Ind., wrecked several houses, uprooted many trees and did other damage. THE public debt statement issued on the 1st showed that the interest and non-interest bearing debt increased $3,727,369 during the month of April. The cash in the treasury was $24,471,573. The total debt, less the cash balance in the treasury, amounts to $840,924,861. FIVE miles south of Fort Smith, Ark., a cyclone swept the country, doing immense damage. Five farmhouses were completely demolished. A CYCLONE did great damage to property near Ponca Agency, I. T., and killed Jack Keithlay and his wife and three children and Charles Jackson.

THE rivers near Vandalia and Newton in Illinois overflowed their banks, flooding a vast territory, and crops were ruined. Hundreds of head of cattle and hogs perished. HENRY DARLING and his wife and child were suffocated by fuel gas in Chicago. THE percentages of the baseball clubs in the national league for the week ended on the 29th ult. were as follows: Cleveland, 1.000: St. Louis, 1.000; Washington, .657; Cincinnati, .657; Philadelphia, .500; Boston, .500; Brooklyn, .500; New York, .500; Chicago, .333; Baltimore, .333; Pittsburgh, .000; Louisville, .000.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. A. KRUG, the oldest republican in the United States, died at his home in Crawfordsville, Ind., aged 103 years. JOHN R. PARSONS, the oldest life-saver connected with the Massachusetts Humane society, died at his home in Rockport, aged 82 years. NAPOLEON BONAPART JENKINS, a famous Ohio river pilot of the earlier days, died in Louisville, Ky., at the age of 60. MRS. ELLEN O'CONNOR died in Indianapolis at the ageof 104. years. WILLIAM C. GOUDY died suddenly in his office in the general offices of the Chicago & Northwestern railroad company in Chicago, aged 69 years. Mr. Goudy was regarded as one of the ablest members of the Chicago bar, and was one of the best known lawyers in this country. GEN. JOHN M. CORSE died of apoplexy at his home in Winchester, Mass., after an illness of only twelve hours on the 58th anniversary of his birth. Gen. Corse served throughout the war and won the rank of major general. At its close he was assigned to the command of the department of the northwest, with headquarters at St. Paul, and conducted an Indian campaign to a successful issue.

FOREIGN. IN a battle between troops and bandits near San Vincente, Mexico, all the latter and twenty-five of the former were killed. WILLIAM TOWNSEND, aged 38, of Sheffield, England, was arrested in London on the charge of attempting to shoot Mr. Gladsone. UNITED STATES CONSUL TAYLOR, who has been consul in Manitoba for over twenty-three years, having been appointed by Gen. Grant, died in Winnipeg after a short illness. EIGHT THOUSAND men employed in the Loire navy yard struck at Nantes, France, for an increase of wages. A TERRIFIC storm swept over Prince Edward Island and near Halifax a large number of lobstermen were blown out to sea and undoubtedly perished. FIRE swept away 162 houses at Kreutzburg, Bohemia, and six persons perished in the flames and over 500 were homeless. THE province of Santiago de Cuba has been declared in a state of siege. THE National bank of Australasia at Mellbourne failed for £7,500,000 owing to a heavy run on the bank and all its branches. IN a battle between the government forces and the revolutionists near San Luis, Brazil, 800 men were killed, the losses being divided nearly equally between the two armies. SLAVES to the number of 125 were drowned by the capsizing of an Arab dhow in which the captives were being conveyed south of Madagascar. AN Indian of the Montagais tribe named Jacks, residing at Ste. Marguerite, Quebec, killed his wife and daughter and ate a good portion of the latter.

LATER. THE treasury department’s monthly statement shows tlhat the total circulation of the country May 1 was $1,599,028,335, or a per capita circulation of $23.97, against $1,613,572,244 on May 1, 1892, a decrease of $14,543,909 during the last twelve months. A. K. FLORIDA, who committed suicide in St. Louis, had life insurance amounting to $135,000. ALONG the Little Miami river in Ohio thousands of acres of planted ground were submerged by floods and along the Scioto river the same state of affairs existed. OVER 400 villages in China were flooded by a rise in the river Hoangho and hundreds of persons were drowned. THE home for destitute children near Burlington, Vt., was burned, but the inmates, seventy-one children, were all rescued. SIX bandits entered a Missouri, Kansas & Texas train at Pryor Creek, I. T., and robbed the passengers of over $2,000. GREAT damage to property by floods in Arkansas and the loss of several lives were reported. Near Van Buren Mr. Meredith and his wife and six children and Marion Denny and his wife and three children were drowned. THE power house of the Louisville (Ky.) Power company and ten other buildings were destroyed by fire, the loss being $500,000. ALLEN BROWN, Robinson Caruth, Joe Scott, Sandy Coosky and Allen Booth, employed at the government rock quarry near Searcy, Ark.,were drowned by the upsetting of a boat. OLLIE RADIE, of Brazil, Ind., who had been an invalid for seven months, was restored to health by a shock of lightning. THE two Wabash rivers were on a boom in the vicinity of Carmi, Ill., and thousands of acres of wheat and other crops in the river bottoms were under water. THE old De Witt Clinton locomotive and two carriages, the first steam railroad train in New York state, which made its initial trip from Albany to Schenectady on August 9, 1831, left New York for the world’s fair. THE steamer Danube reached Portland, Ore., from Victoria, B. C., with 600 Chinese brought over by Canadian Pacific steamers. MRS. ELIZABETH HARPER, wife of Jefferson Harper, a wealthy farmer living near Mulberry Grove, Ill., while insane cut the throat of her daughter Alice, aged 16, with a razor, and then killed herself with the same weapon.