People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1893 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. DOMESTIC. THE Merchants’ national bank, the oldest banking institution in Tacoma, Wash., suspended payment temporarily with $600,000 liabilities and $1,000,000 assets. DURING the first five months of 1893 there were twenty failures of national banks, the capital involved being $6,150,000, against seven failures for a corresponding period of 1892, when the capital aggregated $625,000. THE Presbyterian general assembly In session in Washington suspended Prof. Charles A. Briggs from the ministry. THE Plankinton bank of Milwaukee closed its doors with liabilities of $1,100,000. Continued withdrawal of deposits was given as the cause. THE Home brewery and rice mill at New Orleans were burned, involving a floss of $250,000. Thirty horses perished in the fames. WITH a paid-in capital stock of $1,200,000 the National union bank of New York has begun business.

MANY houses were wrecked by a cyclone near Forest City, Ark., and Mrs. Thomas, a widow, and her 13-year-old daughter were instantly killed. AT Van Buren Point, N. Y., a farmhouse was burned and four of the five inmates perished in the flames. FIRE destroyed the iron foundry works of J. B. & J. M. Cornell in New York, the loss being $300,000. THREE men were killed, two others fatally and one seriously injured by a cave-in at the Ivanhoe tunnel near Leadville, Col. MRS. FRED SHEFFNER, of Bowerstown, Pa., was accidentally shot and killed by her husband as she entered their doorway. THE public debt statement issued on the 2d showed that the debt decreased $739,435 during the month of May. The cash in the treasury was $754,122,984. The total debt, less the cash balance in the treasury, amounts to $840,185,733. AT Battle Creek, Neb., Fred Sargent shot and killed his wife and then fatally wounded himself. FAILURE to raise money on Cherokee strip lands has caused suspension of credit in Indian territory. CHEVERTON, MARTIN & CO., private bankers in Chicago, have assigned. The assets were said to amount to $100,000 and the liabilities to $70,000. W. G. MORROW shot and killed Effie Baker at Greenville, Miss., and then fatally shot himself. Jealousy was the cause.

AN unknown schooner was sunk in collision with the steamer Corsica in Lake Huron and all on board perished. MARTIN PETRITUS fatally shot Mrs. Frank Wiethom at Springfield, O., because she would not leave her husband for him and then shot himself. THE Thorp & Martin company of Boston, manufacturers of stationery, made an assignment with liabilites of $125,000. A NEW counterfeit two-dollar treasury note has made its appearance in Chicago. It is described as imitating the series of 1891 and as bearing the check letter “B,” and the counterfeit signatures of W. S. Rosecrans, register, ttnd E. H. Nebeker, treasurer. THE world’s congress on social purity was opened in the Art institute in Chicago. POTTER'S bank, the oldest bank in Paulding county, and heretofore considered one of the safest, closed its doors at Paulding, O. NEAR Cotton Plant, Ark., a cyclone spread death and destruction. The plantation of John Gazallo was left without a house of any kind standing. The width of the cyclone was about 1½ miles. TWO DAUGHTERS of F. G. Smehla, living near Wilson, Kan., perished in the Barnes which consumed their residence. THE rear coach of a Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis train jumped the track near Newsom’s, Tenn., and eleven persons were hurt. A CYCLONE swept over Huntingdon, Falcon, Camden and Trumble, in Tennessee, destroying a vast amount of property and killing several persons. GREAT damage was done by extensive floods in eastern Galicia and eighteen persons were drowned. THE village of Eldorado, Ark., was destroyed by a cyclone and fifteen persons were said to have been killed. PROF. HOLDEN, of Liek observatory, telegraphs that a large group of spots are now clearly visible on the sun, which can be seen with the naked eye by the use of smoked glass. THE survey to settle the Alaska boundary question has been begun by the American and Canadian commissioners.

THE plant of the American Strawboard company at Lima, O., was burned, causing a loss of $300,000. THERE were 238 business failures reported in the United States during the seven days ended on the 2d. In the week preceding there were 276, ami during the corresponding time in 1892 the number was 175. STRIKING quarrymen inaugurated a reign of terror along the route of the drainage canal between Romeo and Lemont, Ill., and several men were injured, some fatally. DURING the week ended on the 2d the leading clearing houses in the United States Reported exchanges amounting to $899,142,352, against $1,043,014,447 the previous week. As compared with the corresponding week of 1892 the decrease was 12.0. THE percentages of the baseball clubs in the National league for the week ended on the 3d were as follows: Pittsburgh, .700; Boston, .625; Brooklyn, .567; Philadelphia, 567; Cleveland, .542; Baltimore, 516; New York, .484; Washington, .467; Cincinnati, .452; St. Louis, .448; Chicago, .414; Louisville, .143.

A MAIL train was wrecked by a washout near Ridgeway, S. C., and the engineer and fireman were killed. JOHN C. MINING, treasurer of Fort Jennings, O., disappeared, leaving a shortage of $15,000. FOUR persons were killed and two fatally injured in a cyclone which swept Wharton county, Tex. Washington Jenkins, a colored man aged 100, was among the killed. TWO MEN were killed and two others were mortally wounded at a primary election in Pineville, Ky. FURNITURE manufactories in Cincinnati, some seventy in number, employing 7,000 persons, have shut down, owing to the demand of their workmen for a nine-hour day. THE magazine of the Hecla Powder company near Virginia, Minn., exploded. Nearly every building in town was wrecked. CHIEF COX was killed and three firemen and one citizen fatally injured at the burning of the furniture house of Charles Shiverick & Co., in Omaha. The property loss was $200,000. SAM BUSH (colored) was taken from jail at Decatur, Ill., by indignant Mount Zion citizens and hanged for criminally assaulting the wives of two farmers.

WILLIAM BENTE and his wife and Elsie Bente, Helen W. Dietz and Charles Pugsley lost their lives by the burning of a building in New York. HERMAN SCHAFFNER & CO., of Chicago, the oldest and largest private bankers in the west, failed for $500,000. AUGUSTUS VICTORSON and Thomas G. McLaury committed suicide at the Hotel Metropole in Chicago. The former was a wealthy Chicagoan and the latter a wealthy resident of New Orleans. Despondency was given as the cause in both cases. THE gold reserve in the United States treasury had on the 3d fallen to $90,000,000. SIXTEEN passengers were injured, some fatally, in a railway disaster near Poplar Bluff, Mo. JOHN McQUAID, John O'Connor and Jane Mooney committed suicide in Philadelphia in one day. THE attendance at the second Sunday opening of the world’s fair grounds was disappointing to the officials. The paid admissions were 54,304. The government building, many of the exhibits in other buildings and all the eastern state buildings were closed. FIVE residents of northern Vermont were arrested for smuggling Chinese into the United States from Canada. A CYCLONE swept the northwestern part of Wayne county, Ind., destroying everything in its path. No lives were lost. THE Fisher & Burnett Lumber company, with headquarters at Memphis, Tenn., failed for $500,000. THE village of Woodington, O., was almost entirely leveled by a cyclone and many persons were injured and Mrs. Mary Smith was killed beneath her building. THE E. A. Armstrong company, manufacturers of and dealers in society and military supplies in Chicago, failed for $100,000.

THE private banking house of Meadowcroft Bros. in Chicago suspended, and runs were made by frightened depositors upon the Bank of Commerce, the Prairie state national bank, the Prairie State Savings and Trust company, the Union trust bank, the Hibernian bank and the Illinois trust and savings bank, but these institutions met all demands promptly. THE office of the Hustler, a paper in Breathitt county, Ark., that advocated local liquor license, was blown up by dynamite. NEARLY 400 delegates were in attendance at the opening session of the world’s temperance congress in Chicago. THE greatest gas well ever struck in the Ohio field was drilled in 7 miles north of Findlay. IN a runaway at Kalamazoo, Mich., Mrs. L. A. Fagan was thrown from a wagon and killed and Mrs. T. W. Murphy and Mrs. Ellison were fatally injured. THE fire loss of the United States and Canada for the month of May is estimated at $10,427,000. This is about a million greater than the aggregate for May, 1882. THE president authorizes the statement that he will call an extra session of congress early in September. TWO MEMPHIS (Tenn.) switchmen riding on the footboard of an engine were killed by the locomotive jumping the track and burying itself in an embankment. THE People’s bank at Bentonville, Ark., was robbed by six men of $10,000. THE Kansas Grain company at Kansas City, Mo., which claims to be the greatest buyer of grain from producers in the world, has failed. REPRESENTATIVES of twenty-five state and territorial governments met in Chicago and organized a convention for the abolition of trusts, corners and trade combinations of all sorts. THE Merchants’ national bank of Fort Worth, Tex., with a capital of $250,000, closed its doors.

Edward Simon & Bro., trunk, valise and bag manufacturers at Newark, N. JL, failed for $250,000. Hotter & Potter, of Boston, publishers of the New England Magazine, Yankee Blade, Woman’s Home Journal, American Vehicle and the Amesbury Daily, failed for SIOO,OOO. Many miles of timber and several houses in Stevens county, Wash., were consumed by a forest fire. Schxxp Bros.’ wagon and carriage works at St. Louis were destroyed by fire. Loss, SIOO,OOO. Ephraim Domedlan, a Braeeville (Ill.) miner, killed his wife and then blew out his own brains. Whisky was the cause. A mortgage for $8,000,000 has been placed on the property at Peoria, IIL, of the whisky trust to secure an issue of bonds. Charles Richmond, an aeronaut, fell S,OOO feet from a balloon at Trenton. N. J. The Missouri river cut a new channel behind the government-dikes at East Atchison, Mo,, and great damage was done: lV *">- Eighteen persons were injured in a wreck on the Iron Mountain road near Mill Spring, M% „ J

The house of John Reddiag, a Kentucky farmer, was struck by lightning and three of its occupants instantly killed. The Savings bank at Sandusky, 0., with liabilities of $205,000, closed its doors. The supreme court of Nebraska acquitted the state officials, against whom impeachment proceedings were brought. The mare Esperanza, valued at $lO,000, was fatally injured in a race at Sacramento, Cal,

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. lowa prohibitionists in state convention at Des Moines made nominations as follows: For governor, B. 0. Aylesworth, of Des Moines; lieutenant governor, J. C. Reed, of Delta; superintendent of public instruction, Miss Belle H. Mix, of Danville; supreme judge, J. A. Harvey, of Polk City: railroad commissioner, E. H. Gillette, of Des Moines. The resolutions favor woman suffrage, declare the liquor issue the paramount one, and denounce Sunday opening of the world's fair. D. N. Morgan was sworn in as United States treasurer and William H. Pugh took the path of office as commissioner of custom®. There will be ten contested seats in the Fifty-third congress. The president has appointed Charles W. Dayton as postmaster of New York. FOREIGN. Many lives were reported lost by the sinking of the steamer Zaragoa near the Manague coast. Mail robbers near Kingston, Ont, secured twelve registered letters in which were about $5,000. Isinglass won the great English Derby, winning 0,000 sovereigns. Ravensbury ran second and Ralburn third. Hundreds of Indians at Quito, Ecaudor, were dying of a peculiar disease. The body turns to a sky blue color, swells to three times its ordinary size and then death follows: Michael Hanagan, aged 70, com pleted fifty years of labor as a city official at Kingston, and ranks as the oldest official in active service in Canada. The Russian corvette Nitiaz went ashore on the Corean ebast and was totally wrecked and nine lives were lost. William Townsend, arrested in London on suspicion of attempting to kill Prime Minister Gladstone, has been found guilty. Redouts from Truxillo, Spanish Honduras, were to the effect that Americana were subject to great persecutions. All the rivers near Manipur, India, overflowed their banks and submerged villages and many persons were drowned. At one point on a small stream twenty bodies were recovered The revolution in Honduras has been suppressed and the rebel leaders, with the exception of Gen. Sierra, have fled. Mustapah and Bargram, Caucasian princes, fatally wounded each other in a duel at Daghestan, Russia. The international billiard match in London between Frank Ives, of America, and John Roberts, of England, resulted in a victory for lyes, the score standing: Ives, 5,997; Roberts, 3,831. Three American thieves killed Mr. Ely, a wealthy Canadian farmer, and his wife and daughter after looting the house at Beachridge. Flames in the Fuente coal mines in Mexico caused the death of twenty-six men. The office of the Western Mail newspaper in Cardiff, Wales, was burned, the loss being $300,000. Cholera was said to be spreading rapidly in Asiatic Turkey.

LATER. Edwin Booth, the great tragedian, died at the Players’ club in New York at 1:15 a. m. on the 7th. Mr. Booth was born on his father’s farm in Hartford county, Md., November 13, 1833, and was the fourth son of Junius Brutus Booth. The State bank of Cortland, Neb., closed its doors.' Julius Balke, one of the founders of the Brunswick-Balke-Collender company, billiard table makers, died at his home in Cincinnati, aged 63 years. A cloudburst in West Virginia did amounting to $250,000 and caused the loss of two lives. The furniture store of the BradstreetThurber company in Minneapolis was burned, the loss being 5160,000. The Bedford (Ind.) bank suspended owing to inability to realize on securities. The bank was established in 1857. The extradition treaty between the C nited States and Russia is now a law of the land. Sapione Marteli.o was electrocuted at the Dannemora (N. Y.) prison. He murdered another Italian named Giovianni Parrelo in Saratoga May 5, 1892. The City bank of Carbondale, 111., owned by William Wykes, suspended. The grant locomotive works in Chicago, one of the largest manufacturing enterprises in the west, made an assignment, with liabilities of $410,950. Fire destroyed the Schelp wagon and carriage factory in St Louis, the loss being SIOO,OOO. The Washington national, the Washington savings and the Citizens national banks at Spokane Falls, Wash., suspended. Warrants for the payment of the Choctaw and Chickasaw land claim amounting to $3,000,000, were cashed at the treasury in Washington. The anti-trust convention in session in Chicago adopted a platform calling for the enactment of more rigorous laws against combinations in restraint of trade. In Wisconsin the State bank at Manitowoc and the hank at Two Rivers closed their doors. ■ J. A. Jenkins, who resigned the treasurership of .Jeffersonville, Ind., was said to be SIO,OOO short in his accounts. The Defiance (O.) savings, bank elosed its doors with liabilities of SIOO,OOO. A wild engipe crashed into an express train on the Lackawanna road near Cortland, N. Y. f and Engineer Wallace and Fireman Sherwood of the latter were killed.