People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1893 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. DOMESTIC. THE State Investment & Insurance company of California has failed, causing loss to many persons. THE levee near Lakeport, Ark., gave way, flooding thousands of acres of cotton land and causing heavy losses to planters. WARREN G. BUTTERWORTH, aged 70, committed suicide at Warren, Mass., by shooting himself through the head. His daughter Emma, who was trying to prevent the shooting, received the bullet in her brain after it had passed through her father’s head and she died also. THE steamer Danube left Portland, Ore., for China with 406 Chinese on board who had been refused admission to the United States. A FREIGHT train on the Ohio River railroad went off the tracks at Walkers, W. Va., falling 35 feet, and three men were killed. FIRE destroyed two business buildings at Pittsburgh, Pa., causing a loss of $150,000 and the fatal injury of two firemen. THE seventy-seventh annual meeting of the American Bible society was held in New York and the reports showed the total cash receipts for the year ended March 31 to be $578,930 and the disbursements $526,537. THE Columbia national bank in Chicago suspended with liabilities of over $1,000,000. The principal business of the bank was with country banks and they will be the chief sufferers. R. R. ROBINSON & CO., bankers and brokers at Wilmington, Del., failed for $300,000. THE Capital national bank at Indianapolis closed its doors with liabilities of $1,000,000. A GRANITE monument to the memory of James Barren Hope, known as the poet laureate of Virginia, was unveiled at Norfolk. THE Scotch-Irish congress of America convened at Springfield, O. THE house John Mahin and two other houses at Muscatine, Ia., were destroyed by dynamite. Mr. Mahin is editor of the Muscatine Journal, postmaster, and an ardent prohibitionist; and the residences destroyed were those of prominent citizens who have been active in prosecuting cases. MRS. ANNA HARRIS, of Tonawanda, N. Y., charged with starving her 9-year-old stepdaughter to death, was convicted of manslaughter in the second degree and sentenced to eleven years imprisonment. This is the first case in the history of American jurisprudence where a person was convicted of manslaughter in the second degree. THE Sioux City (Ia.) engine works failed for $200 000. ONE-HALF of Spring Lake, Mich., was destroyed by fire and fifty families were homeless. Total Loss, $175,000. THE power house and carhouse of the Grand View Beach railroad near Charlotte, N. Y., were burned, the loss being $100,000. DURING the week ended on the 12th the leading clearing houses in the United States reported exchanges amounting to $1,370,664,109, against $1,373,838,156 the previous week. As compared with the corresponding week of 8192 the increase was 11.0. JOHN Z. Carlisle and Charles Luttrell were hanged at Sherman, Tex., for the murder of W. T. Sherman at Denison on April 28, 1892. THERE were 257 business failures reported in the United States during the seven days ended on the 12th. In the week preceding there were 216, and during the corresponding time in 1892 the number was 209. R. J. HORINCK, conductor of a general store and private bank at Grand Ridge, Ill., failed for $300,000, and scores of farmers are ruined by the disaster. FOREST fires burned hundreds of acres of oak, pine and cedar timber, many valuable cranberry bogs and three houses in Berkeley township, N. J. THE twenty-five ringleaders of the mob that took from jail at Chattanooga, Tenn., Alfred Blount, a negro assaulter, and hanged him, have been indicted for murder.

The Hygeian Ice company at Trenton, N. J., failed for $150,000. Several farms east of Pinckney, Mich., were swept by a cyclone and buildings were wrecked and several persons were hurt, but not seriously, though many horses and sheep were killed. The collapse of the Columbia national bank in Chicago caused the failure of banks at Rusiaville, Greentown, Oxford. Morristewn, Arcadia, Spiceland, Orleans, Hebron, Brookston, Dunkirk, Geneva, Boswell, Knox, West Labanon and Greenwood in Indiana, the Richland, Edwardsburg, Lawton, Rockford and Charlevoix banks m Michigan, the bank of Oregon in Wisconsin, the bank of Casey in Illinois and the bank at dearmount in Ohio. Members of the local world’s fair directory passed a resolution that the fair should be open Sundays on and after May 21, the admission to the grounds to be twenty-five cents, and the big exhibit buildings to be closed. This action may be annulled by the national commission. Joe Brannon, aged 19, was hanged at Charleston, S. C., for the murder of Stephen Kearney on the 31st of August lot Tme police at Buffalo, N. Y., claimed to have discovered evidence of a plot by Marchists to blow up the water works aad fire the world’s fair buildings to ••••fpe upon Chicago the execution of fle anarchists condemned for the Haynow Canard line steamship CamJMMa*mart* the trip from New York to ia 5 days 17 hours and 42 fl* <wiekest passage eastward

The total value of the export* of breadstuffs from this oountry during the ten months ended April 30 last was >157,653,913, a decrease of >95,000,000 from the corresponding period of 1893. John Weiss, grand treasurer of the Order relief fund, sick and benefit association, departed from his home in New York with >IOO,OOO belonging to the order, Kendall & Smith, the largest milling firm in Nebraska, failed at Lincoln for >250,000. The big department store of Frank A. Lappen & Co. and the furniture store of the Lappen Furniture company in Milwaukee failed for $500,000. At Louisville, Ky., the firm of W. H. Thomas <fc Son, the largest dealers in old Kentucky whisky in the world, suspended with liabilities of >600,000. A severe windstorm at Astoria., Ore., overturned a number of fishing boats and four men were drowned. The percentages of the baseball clubs in the National league for the week ended, on the 15th were as folrows: Cleveland. .667; St. Louis, .667; Washington, .643; Pittsburgh, .636; Brooklyn, .583; Cincinnati, .572; Philadelphia, .500; Baltimore, .429; Boston, .462; New York, .385; Chicago, .286; Louisville, .200. Two persons were killed and several seriously injured by the explosion of a railway locomotive at Lebanon, Pa. The jury in the case of W. C. Rippey, accused of assaulting John W. Mackay in San Francisco with intent to kill, was dismissed, having failed to reach an agreement.

John Turley, who shot and killed L. F. Price, a conductor, on a train at Seymour, Ind., was taken from jail at Bedford by masked men and lynched. The Standard Oil company’s works at Whiting, Ind., were burned, the loss being >IOO,OOO. Kendall & Smith, grain dealers at Lincoln, Neb., failed for >360,000. The Kissamee (Fla.) City bank closed its doors with liabilities of >190,000. Tightness of money and slow collections caused the failure. Ten men fell 3,000 feet to their death down the Red Jacket shaft of the Calumet and Hecla mine at Calumet, Mich. A fire caused by a defective flue in the bakehouse of the Aldine hotel in Philadelphia resulted in a loss of >140,000. A crevasse gave way at Brook’s mill in Arkansas, causing the destruction of crops in eight or nine parishes. By request of Secretary Gresham the resignation of William E. Curtis as chief of tiie bureau of the American republics was sent to the president. The annual meeting of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers was opened at Schenectady, N. Y. An extensive tin-ore mine was found near Kenova, W. Va., the analysis showing 70 per cent, pure tin. N. B. Martans, 70 years of age, of Woodland Cal., was robbed of >4,100 on the world's fair grounds in Chicago by a pickpocket. An overflow in the Illinois and Sangamon rivers in Cass county, 'lll., several thousand acres of rich fa'NUjPR' lands, entirely destroying the wheaT\owj3rtwskfal-L- .. Clarence P. Seller, the noted Cincinnati diamond robber, escaped from the state prison at Jackson, Mich. Rev. Dr. J. S. Baldwin, for twentytwo years a Methddist minister in China, says that if the Chinese are shipped from this country to China simply because they are here without taking out certificates, Americans in China will be likewise depotted from that country to the United States. □Mrs. Harriet Clough, wife of Rev. Dr. John E. Clough, the well-known Baptist missionary of India, died at the residence of her son, A. E. Clough, at Evanston, 111., from injuries received from a falling folding bed. Adam Miller, collector for the Iron City Brewing company of Pittsburgh, Pa., was robbed of >1,600 in cash and >4OO in checks while boarding a street car.

The visible supply of grain in the United States on the 15th was: Wheat, 72,682,000 bushels; corn, 7,830,000 bushels; oats, 3,527,000 bushels; rye, 609,000 bushels; barley, 552,000 bushels. John L. Sullivan was arrested at the depot in Bangor, Me., and placed in jail for brutally assaulting Max L. Lizotte, a one-armed Biddeford lawyer, on the Boston train. A battle took place at W. J. Rainey’s coke works at Dawson, Pa., between about 100 drunken Hungarians and officers and nine of the Hungarians were left on the field for dead and four of the officers were fatally hurt. Eighteen men engaged in a walking match from Omaha to Fremont, Neb., a distance of 60 miles, Henry Lester winning in 7 hours and 10 minutes. The women’s congress, the first ofoa series of world’s fair auxiliary congresses, opened in Chicago with a large attendance of representative women from all over the world. The Missouri court of appeals has sustained the conviction of a barber in Kansas City for violation of the Sunday law, which provides that no work other than household offices or other work of necessity shall be performed on Sunday. Lou Tbenck, who murdered Henry Faedler, was hanged at Brownstown, Ind., by the same lynching party who hanged Turley at Bedford the previous day. William H. Mygatt, banker and real-estate dealer at Denver, Col., failed for $507,889. Idiot immigrants will hereafter -not be allowed to land in this country. The United States supreme court has declared the Geary Chinese exclusion act constitutional, and all Chinese who fail to register will be sent back to their native land. The total number of Chinese in the United States is 110,000, of whom only 3,169 have complied with the law. Charles Lendburg, Peter Johnson, John Larsen and John Swansen were drowned in the lake near Chicago by the capsizing of a boat. The supreme court has affirmed its previous ruling as laid down in the Langfeld ease, popularly known as “the hat-trimmings ease,” and the United States will be called upon to refund from $8,000,000 to 810,000,000 to importers in New York and elsewhere.

Nehb <fc Carpenter, eastern managers at Troy, N. Y., for the Northwestern Guaranty Loan company of Minneapolis, .made -a general assignment with liabilities of >2,000,000. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL Gen. Edward D. Townbend, fpr a number of years adjutant general of the army, died at his residence in Washington. At the meeting in Louisville. Ky., of the National League of Republican clubs W. W. Tracey, of Springfield, 111., was chosen as president The National Republican College league in session at Louisville, Ky., elected L. E. Hawkins, of Syracuse university, as president Edward 0. Leech, director of the mint handed in his resignation to the president to take effect at the end of this month. The state convention of Ohio prohibitionists will meet at Cleveland June 27 and 28. . W. H. A. Bissell, bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Vermont, died at Burlington. Gen. Samuel Chapman Armstrong, founder and principal of the Hampton institute for negroes and Indians near Fort Monroe, Va., died at Hampton, aged 54 years. The republicans elected a senator in North Smithfield, R. 1., which gives them a majority in the next legislature and enables them to elect republican state officers.

FOREIGN. The official announcement is made that Queen Victoria has approved the apportionment of the earl of Aberdeen as governor general of Canada The official estimate of the Bengal (India) wheat crop for the season just closed is 443,243 tons, against 249,930 tons for last year. Rev. Dr. R. W. McCall, who was identified with the well-known Evangelical mission at Paris founded by him twenty years ago, died in that city, aged 77 years. The schooner Esperance and her captain and crew of ten men were lost while on a sealing voyage in the gulf of St. Lawrence. George Victor, the sovereign prince of Waldeck, died at Marienbad, Bohemia, of pneumonia, aged 52 years. During the Maximilian holiday celebration at Durango, Mexico, an affray occurred between a mob of intoxicated Mexicans and the police which resulted in the killing of five of the mob and one policeman. A feud between rival camps of charcoal burners near Mazatlan, Mexico, led to a conflict in which ten men were killed and a number badly wounded. The steamer City of Hamburg col- 1 lided in a fog off Trevose Head, coast of Cornwall, with the ship Countess Evelyn, and the crew of sixteen and nine passengers of the latter vessel were drowned. By an accident to a ferryboat near Borovitchee, Russia, dozens of persons were known to have been drowned and many more were missing. In Australia the Bank of North al bank suspended with total liabilities of 340,500,000. The Ontario Coal company at Toronto failed for $400,000. German soldiers stormed Hornkranz, a Hottentot village, and during the fight seventy native women, ten native men and boys and a few babies were killed. The Spanish government will send three torpedo boats to Cuba to assist in patrolling the coast against filibuster- . ing expeditions.

LATER. At a meeting of the president and cabinet in Washington it was decided that the Chinese exclusion law could not be enforced for the reason that there was no money available for that purpose. Four thousand chickens and several hundred dozen eggs were burned at Hammond's hatchery in Lima, O. Fr ank L. Almy was hanged at Concord, N. H., for the brutal murder at Hanover on July 17, 1891, of Christie Warden. Erastus Wiman, a New. York speculator failed for $600,000. A car loaded with stone dashed into the Freestone works at Buena Vista, 0., struck a saw at which five men were at work and killed the men instantly. A wreck occurred on the Pan-Handle road at Frazeeburg, 0., and five tramps who were stealing a ride were killed. By the capsizing of a sailboat in the river at Louisville, Ky., Warner Brisco and Frederick Stein, wealthy young whisky dealers, were drowned. Fields Bros., extensive importers of horses at Cedar Falls, la., made an assignment with liabilities of $200,000. Floods in the Rio Grande caused heavy losses on both sides of the river. Several persons were reported drowned, among the victims being a Mexican family—father, mother and three children. James Fales, of Barrington, R. 1., state senator elect, had his tongue amputated on account of a cancer. The lake steamer Pelican, loaded with ore, sprang a leak and foundered near Ashtabula, 0., and the mate and two sailors were drowned. The ninth annual convention of the National Editorial association commenced in Chicago with delegates present from every state in the union. O. F. Day, Son & Co.’s harness and trunk factory at Baltimore was burned causing a loss of $150,000. Jhe Bank of the Carolinas, with home office at Florence, S. C., suspend ed. It has branches at Kingstree, Conway, Williston and Varnville, S. C., and at several to'-ms in North Carolina. The First national bank at Cedar Falls, la., suspended, with liabilities of SIOO,OOO. The local directors of the World’s Columbian exposition decided to abrogate their contract with congress by which they bound themselves to close the fair on Sunday by returning the money and to throw open the entire exhibition on the Lord's day with or without the sanction of the national commission.