People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1893 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. DOMESTIC. THE trial of Chief P. M. Arthur, of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, for $200,000 damages for alleged encouragement of the recent strike on the Ann Arbor road at Toledo will commence at Cleveland September 18. The International Supreme Lodge of Good Templars in session at Des Moines, Ia., elected D. H. Mann, of New York, right worthy grand chief. THE Kentucky legislature defeated a bill to move the capital to Louisville, thus ending finally a fight for removal that has been going on for forty years. THE suspensions were reported of the Farmers’ and Merchants’ bank at Fairmount, Ind., the City bank at Parsons, Kan., the Exchange bank at Weston, O., and the First national bank at Kansas City, Kan. THE International Typographical union in session in Chicago for the third time made W. B. Prescott, of Toronto, president. THE Lone Star Iron company of Jefferson, Tex., failed for $100,000. AT a meeting of the board of directors of the Union Theological seminary in New York it was decided by a unanimous vote that Rev. Dr. Charles A. Briggs should continue his work in the department of Biblical history as hitherto. THE Indiana and Arkansas state buildings and the German building on the world’s fair grounds were dedicated. THE seventeenth international and second world's convention of Sundayschool workers will be held in St. Louis from August 31 to September 6, inclusive.

TEXAS women have by their energy completed the state building at the world’s fair which the legislature failed to provide for. MANY wheat fields in Kansas have been ruined by the chinch bug, and since the wheat cutting commenced the bugs have gone to the corn. FIGURES show that the savings banks in the United States contain $1,700,000,000. FRUIT sheds of the Louisville & Nashville road at New Orleans were destroyed by fire, the loss being $100,000. J. W. FLOOD, ex-cashier of the Dono-hoe-Kelly banking company at San Francisco, was convicted of embezzling $164,000. DURING the week ended on the 16th the leading clearing houses in the United States reported exchanges amounting to $1,031,364,527, against $1,156,384,853 the previous week. As compared with the corresponding week of 1892 the decrease was 9.6. MANY houses were blown down at Valdosta and Thomasville, Ga., during a tornado. THERE were 313 business failures reported in the United States during the seven days ended on the 16th. In the week preceding there were 322, and during the corresponding time in 1892 the number was 153. AT Fairfield, Ill., E. Bonham, a banker, made an assignment with liabilities of $125,000. THE total value of the exports of merchandise from the United States during the year ended May 31, 1893, was $848,373,845, and during the corresponding period of the preceding year $1,022,984,545, a decrease of $174,610,700. The value of the imports during the same period was $936,901,287 and $828,848,119, respectively, an increase of $108,053,168. THE dry goods store of Bauer, Foster & Co. at Dayton, O., was burned, the loss being $100,000. THE International Typographical union in session in Chicago decided to demand a nine-hour work day for all printers employed in the United States and Canada on book and job work. THE Genesee Oil company of Buffalo, N. Y.. made an assignment with liabilities of $300,000.

M. FOX & CO., New York importers of diamonds, have been driven to the wall with liabilities of $141,000. MAY COLVIN, who, though but 19 years old, has been arrested nine times for horsestealing, escaped from the jail at Carthage, Mo., by sawing an iron bar with a fork. MRS. JOHN HERMES was chloroformed and robbed of $325 while riding to Cincinnati on an Ohio & Mississippi train. THE supreme lodge of the Independent Order of Good Templars in session at Des Moines passed a resolution demanding enforcement of the prohibitory law in the world’s fair district THE Methodist church and several dwellings at Dundoff, Pa., were destroyed by fire, the total loss being $150,000. WINKLEY, DRESSER & CO., Boston stationers, failed for $150,000. THE Sons of the American Revolution in session in Chicago elected Gen. Horace Porter, of New York, as president. GEORGE DRIER, a Polish Jew who murdered Mrs. Fannie M. Fadden at Cape Charles, Va., October 16, 1891, was hanged at Eastville, Va. DURING the twelve months ended May 31 the exports of gold from the United States amounted to $123,095,453 and the imports $20,658,725; excess of exports, $102,436,728. During the corresponding twelve months last year the exports of gold amounted to $48,888,224 and the imports $49,488,334; excess of imports, $600,110. THE Highspire distillery at Harrisburgh, Pa., was burned with 5,000 barrels of whisky, entailing a loss of $200,000. FRANK ALDRICH, until recently sealer of weights and measures for the District of Columbia, left Washington owing creditors $20,000. THE First national bank of Grundy Center, Ia., closed its doors. The Illinois legislature adjourned sine die after a session lasting 163 days.

THE percentages of the baseball clubs in the National league for the week ended on the 17th were as follows: Brooklyn’ .634; Philadelphia, 634; Boston, .628; Pittsburgh, .571; New York, .512; Baltimore.. 512; Cleveland, .500; Washington, .463; Cincinnati, .442; Chicago, .439; St. Louis, .400; Louisville, .188. FREIGHT trains collided on the Baltimore & Ohio road near Cameron, W. Va., and Engineers Dean and Kinney, Fireman Clem Fisher and two other trainmen were killed. AN attempt to hold up an express train near Council Bluffs, Ia., was frustrated by the fireman turning the hotwater hose on the would-be robbers. IN a general fight in the lumber town of Edgerton, Ind., Lewis Boyer and Hugh Coye, proprietors of the only saloons in the place, were killed. THROUGH an error of government survey a strip of Texas land embracing 75,000 acres was included within the boundaries of Oklahoma. MR. AND MRS. E. GL. EAMES drove in front of an express train at Rock Island, Ill., and both were killed. They leave several small children.

A FIRE destroyed the Adams building in Chicago, causing a loss of $172,000 to O. W. Richardson, carpet dealer, and a loss of over $200,000 to other business firms.

IN Wisconsin the towns of Virginia and Mountain Iron were destroyed by forest fires and the towns of Mesaba, Biwabik and Merritt were partially destroyed. WARREN, James and John Keaton (brothers) were drowned while bathing in the river at Merrill, Wis. COMPLETE official returns of the Chinese registration under the Geary act show that out of 110,000 Chinese in the United States 13,139 have registered. A. S. ARNOLD, of Leavenworth, Kan., shot his wife fatally and then put two bullets into his own head, killing himself instantly. Jealousy was the cause. WILLIAM HIPES, a wealthy farmer, and his wife and daughter were killed by the cars at a railway crossing near their home at Crawfordsville, Ind. AS THE result of a quarrel of long standing over a line fence William Kuykendall, a farmer near Otterville, Mo., killed W. H. Smith and then shot himself.

MARTIAL law was proclaimed in Tonawanda, N. Y., because of strike of lumber shovers. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER of the United States supreme court and his associates in the circuit court of appeals, Judges Bunn and Allen, gave a decision in favor of the Sunday opening of the world’s fair, and in the event of no further legal complications Sunday opening was permanently assured. WHILE attempting to board a train at Liberty, Ind., Jack Kain and John Gear were thrown under the wheels and killed. Each leaves a widow and two little girls; each was 35 years of age; each was a Catholic, and each had just $18 when killed. LYLE KELLOGG, Will Ford and John Gay, well known young men, were drowned in the bay near Washburn, Wis., by the capsizing of a yacht. THE Racine (Wis.) Hardware Manufacturing company failed for $300,000. DAVID BLACKBURN was sentenced to prison for life at Columbus, O., for stealing three chickens. It was his third offense, and the law makes a third sentence a life one. IN a quarrel over a girl at a dance near Louisville, Ky., John Nagles shot and killed John and Jake Sheeley (brothers). PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has issued an order assigning army officers to act as Indian agents. EXPONENTS of banking, finance, railway, commerce, board of trade, insurance, building and loan associations and mercantile credits met in Chicago and inaugurated the world’s congresses of commerce and finance. THE Kanawaha Lumber company at Boston failed for $785,900, pulling down with it W. H. Leatherbee & Son with liabilities of $217,000 and A. F. Leatherbee & Co. with liabilities of $231,000. BECAUSE of Sunday opening of the world’s fair Bishop Merrill says the general commission of the Methodist denomination will issue a manifesto withdrawing the Methodist exhibits from the fair within two weeks and asking the 5,000,000 members of the church to keep away from the exposition on week days as well as on Sundays.

THE mob which was supposed to have lynched Lee Bennett at Gleason, Tenn., hung Jim Harris, an innocent man, instead. Bennett was in jail at Dresden, heavily guarded. THE Capital national bank at Indianapolis, Ind., which suspended one month ago has resumed business. THE George L. Squire Manufacturing company at Buffalo, N. Y. failed for $200,000. MILLER F. LENG, a well-to-do farmer near Napoleon, O., was stabbed and killed by his 16-year-old son Emanuel because he ordered the boy to go to work. THE forest fires in the Mesaba iron range in Wisconsin caused a damage of over $1,000,000 and left nearly 4,000 persons homeless and destitute. Reports from Ashland state that forest fires were sweeping over miles of country and hundreds of homesteaders were in danger. John Meagher perished near Moquah and two children were burned to death at Sanborn and the town wiped out. Similar forest fires were also burning over the whole upper Michigan peninsula. FRANK DAVIS, said to have committed twenty-five burglaries in New York city, was sent to prison for twenty-four years. THE Oil Well Supply company of Pittsburgh, Pa., unable to meet maturing obligations, was placed in charge of a receiver with liabilities of $l,100,000. THE Missouri law permitting the sale of vagrants has been declared unconstitutional by the state supreme court. CONTRACTOR DANT, Superintendent Covert, Engineer Sasse and Col. Ainsworth were held responsible by the coroner’s jury for the death of the Ford theater victims in Washington and the government was censured for carelessness.

THE village of Jeffersontown, Ky., was swept away by fire. BANK failures were reported at Lebanon and Albany in Oregon, at New Hanover, N. C., at Chattanooga, Tenn., and at Plainville, Kan. AN incendiary fire destroyed the business portion of Tillamook. Ore., leaving many parties destitute. Loss over $100,000. A PLAN of celebration has been conceived by the committee in Chicago in charge of the Columbian liberty bell whereby on July 4 all the bells in schoolhouses and churches of the land will ring simultaneously at noon. PHILIP GRAVER, a retired market man 54 years of age, whose estate is valued at $150,000, committed suicide at Pittsburgh, Pa. No cause known. JOHN J. HAGGERTY while drunk jumped from the Brooklyn bridge to the river on a wager of a pint of beer and was not injured in the slightest way.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has grown so very stout recently that he has resorted to the diet system for reducing his weight OHIO democrats will meet in state convention in Cincinnati August 9. WILLIAM WALTER PHELPS, ex-minis-ter to Germany, and his family arrived in New York on the Spree from Bremen. MISS M. MERTA MITCHELL, of Salem, Ia., is the first woman admitted to practice law in Indiana. WILLIAM M. MEREDITH, chief of the bureau of engraving and printing at Washington, has resigned. THE executive committee of the National Republican league has made Chicago its headquarters. SAMUEL BLATCHFORD, associate justice of the United States supreme court, was stricken with paralysis at his cottage in Newport, R. I.

FOREIGN. THE court of cassation in Paris holds that the cases of the Panama canal convicts are outlawed and has ordered the release from prison of M. De Lesseps and his son and the others convicted of squandering canal funds. IT was thought that the opponents of the army bill had been successful in the elections for members of the German reichstag. SIBERIA for life is the probable fate of the Russian monks arrested for robbing the Chudor monastery. PRESBYTERIANS of Canada are stirred greatly over a heresy case. Prof. Campbell is the alleged heretic. THREE private soldiers were tried by a court martial at Chihuahua, Mexico, for disobedience of orders and desertion and sentenced to be shot.

A GOVERNMENT powder magazine a few miles from Athens, Greece, exploded, and twenty persons, including officers and soldiers, were killed, and property valued at 3,000,000 francs was destroyed. THE steamer Khiva, with 1,000 pilgrims on board, bound for Mecca, caught fire on her voyage from Bombay to Jeddah and in the rush for the boats one capsized, drowning twenty persons. PRACTICALLY complete returns from the German elections show the return of 101 supporters of the army bill and 114 opponents. Second ballots will be necessary in about 200 districts. A WATERSPOUT flooded the town of Utzermatlan, Mexico, drowning many of the inhabitants. INDIAN tribes in the village of Loja, Ecuador, raided the village of Zamora, killed all the male inhabitants and carried off the women.

LATER. A TRAIN on the Long Island railroad upon which were about 1,000 persons returning from Sheepshead Bay races was derailed in a tunnel near Parksville, N. Y., and nine persons were killed and twenty-six others were injured, some fatally. THE University bank and City savings bank closed their doors at Los Angeles, Cal. ROBERT E. PHILLIPS and Arthur Mead, prominent members of the Boston chamber of commerce, were drowned by the upsetting of a boat FISHER BROTHERS, cloak manufacturers in New York, failed for $150,000. ENLISTED Indians had a fight with other Indians at the Cheyenne agency in Montana and five of the latter were killed. CORNELL'S freshman crew defeated Columbia at New London, Conn. The 2-mile course was covered in 10:08. LIZZIE BORDEN was acquitted at New Bedford of the charge of murdering her father and stepmother at Fall River, Mass., on August 4, 1892. A TOY pistol in the hands of a boy caused a fire at Frederickton, N. B., which made 125 persons homeless. TEN government inspectors in the state of Washington were detected in aiding in smuggling in Chinese by means of fraudulent certificates and in permitting opium smuggling either by connivance or otherwise.

FIRE in the barrel works at South St. Paul, Minn., caused a loss of $100,000. IN a row at an emancipation day celebration at Flat Prairie, Tex., four negroes were killed and many others wounded. THE American Railway union, a new society to embrace every branch of the service, was organized in Chicago with Eugene V. Debbs of Terre Haute, Ind., as president. AN earthquake shock was felt throughout North and South Carolina and Georgia. BY the terms of Edwin Booth’s will his daughter will receive the bulk of his estate, which is estimated at $605,000. THE Iowa republican convention will meet at Des Moines August 15. FOREST fires were still raging in Minnesota and Wisconsin. The line of fire in Minnesota extended 50 miles and included eight new mining towns, four of which were totally destroyed. The fire in Wisconsin was scattered in patches from Michigan to Minnesota, a distance of 96 miles, over nearly 8,000 square miles of territory.