People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1893 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. DOMESTIC. In a fit of jealousy Dora A. Velzyshot and killed W. G. Gray at Grand Rapids, Mick,and then took her own life in the same manner. L. C. Dumas, young 1 colored man, was lynched by a mob at Gleason, Tenn., for assaulting the daughter of a farmer. Marsden Bellamy, of Wilmington, IN. C., was elected supreme dictator of rthe Knights of Honor at the annual in Milwaukee. > The tabernacle choir of the Mormon •church at Salt Lake City has decided ■to send 250 members to the world’s fair in September to compete for prizes of <5,000 offered. Nebraska dedicated her state building on the world's fair grounds with great enthusiasm. The congress of vegetarians was -opened in Chicago and papers setting forth the benefits to be obtained from abstention from the eating of flesh were read. Five prisoners escaped from the jail at Marietta, 0., by locking the deputy in charge in a cell. Joseph G. Donnelly, of Wisconsin, and Van Leer Polk, of Tennessee, have “been appointed consuls general at Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, and Calcutta, India, respectively. G. C. Pray, aged 26, shot and killed his wife and then shot himself at Shirley, Me. Domestic trouble was the cause. The Mobile & Ohio New Orleans express train was held up by six masked men at Forest Lawn, 111., and the express car robbed of ?10,000. Judges Woods and Jenkins of the United States circuit court decided that the gates of the World's Columbian exposition should be closed on Sunday. Judge Grosscup rendered a dissenting opinion. Josiah B. Kendall, a real-estate dealer and broker in Boston, failed for $279,446.

Worthington Ford? of Brooklyn, has been made chief of the bureau 6f statistics by Secretary Carlisle. A terrific windstorm swept Rice county, Minn., doing fully $50,000 damage. The village of Dundas suffered the most severely. John A. Lee, of St. Louis, was elected president of the Traveler’s Protective association at the annual meeting in Peoria, 111. Oarsmen Peterson won a quarter of a mile dash in the Texas regatta in 1:16%, defeating Stansbury, llanlan, Teenier, Ten Eyck and others. Eulalia, infanta of Spain, and her husband, Prince Antonio, together w’ith members of their party, visited the world’s fair. Auditor Ackerman’s report shows the world’s fair receipts to May 31 were $20,309,545 and the expenditures $19,142.981. The remains of Edwin Booth were interred at Mount Auburn cemetery at Boston. There were 322 business! failures reported in the United States during the seven days ended on the 9th, In the week preceding there were 238, and during the corresponding time in 1892 the number was 168. During the week ended on the 9th the leading clearing houses in the United States reported exchanges amounting toll, 156,384,853, against $899,142,352, the previous week. As compared with the corresponding week of 1892 the decrease was 2.6. The floors of Ford’s theater building in Washington, used by,the pension and record division of the war department, collapsed, and twenty-two clerks from all parts of thqcountry were killed and over fifty others were injured, some fatally. War records on which the claims of thousands of veterans in all parts of the land depend were destroyed. The building had been in an unsafe condition for some time, and repairs were being made when the accident occurred. Bank failures were reported at Mascoutah, 111., Hudson, Wis., Eilenburg, Wash., Missoula, Mont, Gillespie, 111., and two private banks in Chicago. Susan B. Anthony and others spoke at the congress of the Women’s Christian Temperance union in Chicago and the world’s fair directory was denounced -for permitting the sale of liquor on the grounds. The Fairmount woolen mills at Cincinnati were burned the second time, the loss being $200,000.

Bob Brown, a negro, was hanged at Mayfield, Ky., for the murder of Albert Colley, a well-to-do farmer, on the night of December 10, 1892. The total loss by the recent fire in Fargo, N. D.. is placed at 13,500,000, and an appeal for aid for the many persons left destitute has been made. ’’ The Lehigh Valley coal trestle and eoal storage house, containing 60,000 tons of anthracite coal, were burned at Buffalo, N. Y. Loss, $500,000. Near Lemont, 111., on the line of the new drainage canal, a sheriff’s posse met and put to rout 400 striking quarry men, killing seven of the numher and seriously injuring a score of others. Gov. Altgeld ordered troops to the acene of the strife. A 9ox of opals valued at 125,000, the JRvpiitj of Gov. Casio, of Queretaro, Mexico, was stolen from the private eEwiwg-room in ex-Postmaster General Wraamaker’s Philadelphia store. Lactoe and Willie Osborne (brothwere drowned while bathing in Ahe river at Fort Madison, Tint hsrean of statistics at Washing- ** reports the total values of beef, hojr aetf dairy products exported for the dw ituMßth* ended May 31 last at $45,more than $10,000,000 swmmpwr'Ml with the same months of

Snow St Burgess, shipping and commission merchants of New York, failed for 4250,000. ' Chief Justice Fuller, of the United States supreme court, granted the supersedeas sued out by the World's Columbian Exposition company and the gates of the fair were open on Sunday. All the eastern state buildings and many of the exhibits in the’ public buildings were closed. * While temporarily insane Mrs. G. J. Weaver drowned herself and two children in a creek in Fultonham, O. The Union stockyards bank of Sioux City, la., with assets of 4482,667 and liabilities of 4’63,140, made an assignment. Harry E. Gamble, of Brooklyn, chairman of the New York delegation to the international typographical convention in Chicago, was drowned at Diamond Lake, 111., by falling from a boat while in a fit The percentages of the baseball clubs in the National league for the week ended on the 10th were as follows: Pittsburgh, .611; Brooklyn, .611; Boston, .605; Philadelphia, 600; Baltimore. .541; Cleveland, .538; New York. .514; Washington, .4720C'ineinnati. .432; Chicago, .429; St Louis, .412; Louisville, .148.

Savage’B livery stable at Charlestown, W. Va., was burned and thirtyone valuable horses perished in the flames. At the conference of charities and corrections in Chicago L. C. Storrs, of Michigan, was elected president The California express on the Santa Fe road was held up by five men near Cimarron, Kan., and robbed of money and jewelry amounting to 42,000. Oarsman Gaudaur won the 3-mile professional race at Austin, Tex., in 19:06, which breaks the world’s record. The little town of Liberal, Mo., was almost destroyed by a blaze of incendiary origin. Annie E. Murphy, aged 25, was convicted of forgery at St. Cloud, Minn., and sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment Anton Sholl, ofa Odell, 111., died from drinking too much whisky from a jug he was carrying home. Flames in the warehouse of J. 11. Ilobbys & Sons in New York caused a loss of over 4100,000. Rev. Dwight L. Moody preached to a congregation of 10,000 persons in the big tent of the Forepaugh circus in Chicago. The Citizens' national bank of Hillsboro, 0., closed its doors. Mrs. Frank Leslie, of New York was granted a divorce from her husband, W. C. K. Wilde. Mrs. Leslie may marry again, but the marriage of Wilde is prohibited during her life. A terrific windstorm swept over Buffalo, N. Y., and five persons were drowned by the capsizing of boats in Lake Erie. Gen. James A. Hall, of Damariscotta, Me., died suddenly on a train between Syracuse and Utica, N. Y. He was a veteran of the late war.

Hobbs & Tucker, private bankers at Albany, Ga., suspended payment. The battle ship Massachusetts was launched at Cramp’s shipyard in*Philadelphia with notable ceremony. A. L. Backus & Sons, of Toledo, oen of the best known grain firms in Ohio, failed for $300,000. During the eleven months ended May 31, 1893, the values of the exports of breadstuff’s were $173,069,261, and during the corresponding period of the preceding year $272,476,023, a decrease of $99,406,762. The Sulphur Linhber company at Sulphur, Tex., failed for SIOO,OOO. C. A. Pillsbury, the Minneapolis miller, told a senate committee inquiring into the financial situation that Chicago short selling was the ruination of trade in the northwest. While Mrs. Patterson’s 16-y ear-old son was cleaning his rifle at Moravia, la., it was accidentally discharged, the bullet piercing his mother’s heart, causing instant death. Two trunks which had been checked from Tonawanda, N. ¥., to Chicago were seized at Buffalo and found to contain smuggled opium. Evans and Sontag, the California train robbers, who have been fugitives for ten months, were wounded in an encounter near Visalia, Cal., with officers, the latter fatally. By the bursting of a boiler at the Peru (Ind.) basket factory M. J. Pratt and his young son were instantly killed. Dr. F. H. Wines delivered a memorial address in honor of ex-President Hayes at the opening session of the congress of charities and corrections in Chicago. At the inquest in Washington on the victims of the Ford’s theater disaster Col. Ainsworth was denounced by C. G. Banes as the murderer of bis brother and threats were made to lynch Ainsworth.

The plant of the Meriam & Morgan Paraffine company at Cleveland, 0., was destroyed by fire, the loss being $250,000. It was said that the Louisiana Lottery company would establish headquarters at Port Tampa, Fla. A robber invaded the Hotel Colorado at Glenwood Springs and, aided by a pistol, robbed guests of money and jewelry to the amount of $2,000. Five men were killed by the bursting of a boiler in a mill at Barnet, Vt. A tree which was being felled in a Burlington (la.) cemetery fell on a vehicle in which were Rev. Dr. William Salter and his wife and the latter was killed and the former fatally injured. The International Typographical union met in forty-first annual session in Chicago. The Park City bank at Salt Lake City, the McCague savings bank at Omaha, Neb., the bank at Burr Oak, Kan., and the People’s guarantee savings bank at Kansas City, Mo., closed their doors.

The Harvey World’s Fair Hotel company and the Harvey Home Improvement company were placed in the hands of a receiver in Chicago, the liabilities of the former being $99,000 and the latter $90,000. A train on the Ohio Southern road jumped the track near Storm’s Station, 0., and twenty-one passengers were injured, some fatally.

John L. Osmond suffered death in the electrical chair at Sing Sing, N. Y., for the inurder of his wife Mary and his cousin John C. Burchell on Octobers, 1891. The American Wheel company’s factories at Crawfordsville, Ind., Memphis, Tenn., Paducah, Ky., and Humboldt, Tenn., were closed for an indefinite time. The yacht Pilgrim, built by a Boston syndicate to defend the America’s cup, was launched at Philadelphia.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Ohio republicans in convention at Columbus nominated William McKinley for governor, A. L. Harris for lieutenant governor, W. T. Cope for state treasurer, J. K. Richards for attorney general and J. P. Bradberry for supreme judge. The platform favors protection to American labor and industries; protection against the influx of the vicious and criminal classes; favors pensions to disabled soldiers and sailors of the late war, and the widows and orphans of such as are deceased, and favors honest money composed of gold, silver and paper, maintained at equal value Ind under national and not state regulation. Warren Leland, the last survivor of five brothers who made the name of Leland famous in the hotel business from the Atlantic to the Pacific, died at Port Chester, N. Y., aged 59 years. Ex-President Harrison visited the world’s fair as a guest of T. W. Palmer.

FOREIGN. The village of Imst, in Austria, wa» wiped out by fire. Advices from Rome say that the sum of money given to the pope during his episcopal jubilee by bands of pilgrims, by Catholic orders and by individuals amounts to 9,060,000 francs. The Ville Marie convent at Monklands, near Montreal, was destroyed by fire, involving a loss of 41,000,000; insurance, 4100,000. A royalist conspiracy to blow up the barracks of the Hawaiian 'provisional government with dynamite was discovered but the conspirators escaped. A SHELL from the military drill grounds at Luxemburg, Germany, exploded in the midst of a procession of Catholics and seven persons were killed akd thirty others fatally wounded. Fifty villages in Galaeia and Kunow’ina, in Austria, were partly destroyed by floods. The Active, which arrived at Dundee, Scotland, with a full cargo of sealskins, reported the discovery of land in latitude 65 south, longitude 63 west Gen. Vab Quese, commander in chief of the army, has declared himself president of Honduras.

The large stables of the street railway company at Winnipeg, Man., were destroyed by fire and sixty-one horses perished in the flames. Sixty deaths from cholera occurred in Mecca. Egypt. Maj. Gen. Sir John Hudson, commander of the British forces in Bombay, was thrown from his horse at Poona and killed. The Mexican town of Puachmetta was completely wiped out by a storm and nearly 2,000 persons were homeless. Convicts while returning from the quarries to Tourah prison near Cairo, Egypt, attempted to escape, and thirtynine of them were shot dead by the troops. Minnie Marschali, a 16-year-old girl at Megelhoff, Bavaria, killed her mother, her sister affd an aged uncle who objected to her vicious mode of life and then cut her own throat. Cholera was said to be spreading in southern and central France and many deaths were oceuring daily.

LATER. A six-story building in New York filled with sweater shops caught fire, and in the wild rush to the street four persons were killed, two others were fatally injured and five others were badly hurt. Eight cowboys left Chadron. Neb., on horses for a race to Chicago. The distance is 911 miles. The steamer Winthrop, valued at $125,000, was burned at Eastport, Me. It was owned by the Mallory company of New York. The coinage of Columbian souvenir quarter dollars was begun at the United States mint in Philadelphia. The Nashville (Tenn.) Savings company, of which Thomas S. Marrs is owner and president, filed an assignment with liabilities of $282,876. Flames destroyed ten buildings at Waldoboro, Me., causing a loss of SIOO,000.

While three children of M. Lakin were playing with a gun at Frisco, O. T., it was discharged and a son 11 years old and daughter 12 years old were fatally injured. The Franklin Buggy company at Columbus, 0., has been put in the hands of a receiver with liabilities of SIOO,OOO. Mount Higashiazum, Japan, was in a state of eruption and 100 lives were said to have been lost. Mrs. James Kirkendall, of Paradise, Wash., fatally poisoned her little girl and herself while temporarily insane. The village of Alba, Mich., with a population of 800, was wiped out by fire. Kuffler’s cotton mill in Brodetz, Bohemia, was burned, the loss being 1,250,000 francs. In a railway wreck on the Misseuri, Kansas & Texas road near Butler, I. T., Ames Frame, engineer, and his fireman were killed and many passengers were injured. The American national bank at Omaha suspended with liabilities of $600,000.

William Shorter, a negro, was taken from a train by masked men near Winchester, Va., and lynched. He was on his way to his trial for assaulting a girl. Thb Pioneer Lithographing company of Denver made an assignment with liabilities of $134,386.28. A paper on “The Philosophy of Crime,” read by C. H. Reeve, of Plymouth, Ind., caused a warm discussion in the world’s congress of charities and correction in Chicago. Mr. Reeve advocated the wiping out of the penal code as it now exists.