People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1893 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. DOMESTIC. CHARLES KELLER and his wife and John Steinbaugh were killed by the cars at a railway crossing near Lima, O. THE national convention of Women’s Amateur Musical clubs met in Chicago. NEAR PHALANX, O., Preston Osborn, his wife and two of their children and a man named Heintzslman were fatally poisoned by some ingredient that had been mixed with their coffee. The affair was shrouded in mystery. CHARLES P. WHALEN was sentenced at Janesville, Wis., to twenty-five years' imprisonment for the murder of Gerald Spaulding. A NUMBER of exhibiters at the world’s fair met and recorded themselves as being unalterably opposed to the opening of the world's fair gates on Sunday, not only on moral grounds but from a financial standpoint as well, and decided to enter suit for an injunction to have the gates closed on Sunday. THE Methodists have decided not to withdraw their world’s fair exhibit on account of Sunday opening, but it will be covered up on the Sabbath. The church committee adopted resolutions in which they declare that the act of the directory in turning aside from keeping its pledge of honor to the congress and people of the United States will be conspicuous in the future as an act of perfidy beclouding the business integrity of the citizens of Chicago which years of shame will not remove. FIVE men were instantly killed by an explosion of gas in a mine at Nanticoke, Pa.

THE Columbia liberty bell, the tribute of many to the shrine of independence, which will ring in Chicago for the first time July 4, was successfully cast at the Clinton & Meneely bell foundry in Troy, N. Y. BAIRD & BRADLEY, real estate dealers in Chicago, made a voluntary assignment with assets estimated at $600,000 and liabilities at $400,000. SUPERIOR JUDGE GRANT decided in favor of Sacramento and against San Jose in the California capital removal case. FOREST fires in the western part of Pueblo, Col., were doing enormous damage. BANKS closed their doors at Santa Anna, Cal., San Diego, Cal., Pomona Cal., Ontario, Cal., Greenville, Mich, and Ridgeway, Me. JACOB HAJANEKI, of Akron, O., fatally shot his wife and then stabbed himself fatally. No cause was known. THREE men who were put in jail the evening before a fire at Virginia, Minn., were burned to death. THE big armored cruiser Maine, which has been building for nearly four years at the Brooklyn navy yard, was successfully launched. DAVE KENDALL and Frank Tempelman while working in a well near Morehead, Ky., were overcome by gas and both were killed. THE National Association of Master Mechanics in session at Jamestown, N. Y., elected as president John Hickey, of St. Paul. B. T. RHEA & SON, grain dealers at Nashville, Tenn., failed for $100,000. THERE were 287 business failures reported in the United States during the seven days ended on the 23d. In the week preceding there were 313, and during the corresponding time in 1892 the number was 190.

DURING the week ended on the the 23d leading clearing houses in the United States reported exchanges amounting to $1,033,309,822, against $1,031,364,527 the previous week. As compared with the corresponding week of 1892 the decrease was 6.6. ATTORNEY GENERAL OLNEY says the controversy over the opening and closing of the world’s fair on Sunday is ended so far as his department is concerned. MR. AND MRS. PETER BOILLOT were fatally injured at Beatrice, Neb., by being thrown from their carriage. BALTIMORE police claim to have discovered an organized band of anarchists whose purpose was to levy blackmail. A LONE robber boarded the express car of a Rock Island train at Virginia, Neb., bound the messenger and robbed the safe of $350. B. J. DORAN, a pugilist, killed his little boy at Rochester, N. Y., with poison and then took his own life by throwing himself in front of a train of cars. A CYCLONE swept for fifty miles across the counties above Atlanta, Ga., wrecking many buildings and ruining crops. FAILURES were reported of the Columbia bank at New Whatcom, Wash., State bank at Minneapolis, Minn., First national bank at San Bernardino, Cal., People’s home savings bank at San Francisco and the Cataract bank at Niagara Falls, N. Y. THE business part of the village of Mount Sterling, O., was destroyed by fire. LEROY PAYNE, one of Chicago’s oldest liverymen, failed for $250,000. THE maple sugar crop of Vermont the past season was 5,759,762 pounds, and the bounty will be $70,000. THE new directory of Brooklyn, N. Y., gives that city a population of over 1,000,000. PRINCESS EULALIA sailed from New York on the steamer La Touraine for Spain. THE business portion of Leonardsville, Kan., was destroyed by fire. THE well-known stallion Arrival, record 2:24½, for whom his owners refused $15,000, died at Gardiner, Me. THIRTEEN contract laborers who arrived in New York from Germany were told that they must return on the same steamer. THE supreme council of the order of United Commercial Travelers met in sixteenth annual session at Columbus, O.

THE supreme court of Ohio, in the Deshler will case, has decided that brothers and sisters of full blood inherit before half brothers or sisters. This adds nearly a million dollars to the wealth of William G. Deshler. THE percentages of the baseball clubs in the National league for the week ended on the 24th were as follows: Philadelphia, 638; Boston, .638; Brooklyn, .609; Cleveland, .548; Pittsburgh, .521; New York, .490; Baltimore.. 489; Washington, .478; Cincinnati, .458; Chicago, .422; St. Louis, .422; Louisville, .237. A FREIGHT train on the Eastern Minnesota was wrecked by a cow near Partridge, Wis., and Engineer Ingersoll and Brakeman McNanny were killed and Fireman Reilly and Conductor Hall were fatally injured. The property loss was $100,000. FORTY-ONE persons have been accidentally killed on the world’s fair grounds since the construction of the buildings commenced. BECAUSE of its editor’s attacks on lawbreakers the office of the New Albany (Miss.) Gazette was broken into and its plant destroyed. MRS. P. T. HARRIS and a daughter 10 years of age were drowned in the Rio Grande river near Del Norte, Col. A MONUMENT in memory of the executed anarchists was unveiled in Waldheim cemetery in Chicago in the presence of 3,000 persons. J. S. NEWMYER, a coke operator at Dawson, Pa., failed for $200,000. NEAR Denison, Tex., three brothers named Early were united in marriage to three sisters named Parker, and the event wound up with the mother of the girls marrying the father of the boys. PATRIOTIC songs by a choir of 100,000 voices is to be one of the features of the Fourth of July celebration at the world's fair.

AN engine left the rails on a trestle near Mount Washington, O., and Conductor David Homan and Fireman Philip King were fatally injured. BY the breaking of a levee near Ascension, La., some fifteen sugar plantations were ruined, the loss being $1,000,000. AN attempt to hold up a train on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas road near Strinstown was frustrated by the engineer pulling the throttle wide open. The enraged would-be robbers riddled the coaches with bullets. AN explosion of gasoline caused the destruction of five business establishments in Huron, S. D., and Alderman Feary was burned to death. IN a fight between revenue officers and moonshiners in Tennessee one of each party was killed and Marshal Brown mortally wounded. A CARRIAGE was struck by a train at Avondale, N. J., and Mrs. Williams and three children were killed. THE American Derby, worth $50,000 to the winner, was captured in Chicago by Boundless, owned by J. E. Cushing, of St. Paul. The time was 2:36. SEVEN men were injured by a rearend collision between two Central Hudson freight trains near Rochester, N. Y. FIRE destroyed John M. Wakefield’s lumber yards at Omaha, Neb., causing a loss of $300,000. THE Red River Elevator company of St. Paul, having a line of elevators through Minnesota and North Dakota failed for $494,000. THE factory of Turner & Seymour, manufacturers of small hardware, was partly destroyed by fire at Torrington, Conn., the loss being $100,000. A RAID was made on the Utah sheep herds in the plateau country in Colorado, several hundred sheep were killed by bombs, and the cattlemen and settlers have once more started on a warfare

THE New York Central Railroad Company will pay Mrs. Homer R. Baldwin, of New York, $50,000 for injuries she received in a railway disaster at Hastings Christmas evening, 1891. THE Bank of New England at Minneapolis, Minn., the Sabina (O.) bank, the Bank of Ness City, Kan., and the Queen City bank at Buffalo, N. Y., closed their doors. The liabilities of the latter bank were $2,328,754. S. & G. GUMP, dealers in art goods at San Francisco, made an assignment with liabilities of $140,000. JOHN FITZTHUM was executed by electricity at Auburn, N. Y. He killed a young man named Raehl in Buffalo April 7, 1892. THE firm of Mann Bros., clothing dealers at New York, failed for $250,000. THE visible supply of grain in the United States on the 26th was: Wheat, 63,082,000 bushels; corn, 7,325,000 bushels; oats, 3,114,000 bushels; rye, 397,000 bushels; barley, 445,000 bushels. ROBERT BURNS was instantly killed and Louis Johnson fatally injured by the falling of the stone coping of a Minneapolis bank building. THE Tremont hotel at Fort Scott, Kan., a four-story brick structure, collapsed, and though 100 persons were in the house no lives were lost as far as known.

JAMES STEPHENSON was killed and his son fatally injured by a mad bull at their farm near West Union, O. GOV. ALTGELD, of Illinois, has pardoned Schwab, Fielden and Neebe, the anarchists sentenced to state’s prison on the charge of complicity in the Haymarket massacre May 4, 1886. Fielden and Schwab were sentenced to prison for life and Neebe for fifteen years. THE New Hampshire state building at the world’s fair grounds was dedicated, the principal address being delivered by Gov. J. B. Smith. FRANK HAYES, aged 20 years, was found guilty of murder at Detroit and sentenced to imprisonment for life. SOUTH CAROLINA'S liquor dispensary has begun business and all saloons would soon be closed. A MASKED man entered the Merchants’ national bank at Moorhead, Minn., and covering the teller with a revolver secured $2,600. KOZINE and Moneypenny (Indians) were found guilty at Madison, Wis., of the murder of Boneash and his sqaaw last fall. THE Crum Creek Iron & Steel Company at Chester, Pa., failed for $120,000.

THE Bank of Commerce at San Diego, Cal., and the Savings bank at Fresno, Cal., which suspended recently, have resumed business. WILLIAM RANSDELL was bitten by a tarantula at Lebanon, Ind., while handling bananas. In the bunch of bananas a nest of 200 young tarantulas was found. Ransdall may recover.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. WILLIAM McCOY, American minister to Liberia, died at Monrovia. He was from Indiana and appointed by Mr. Harrison, and was the fourth minister resident to die at Monrovia during the last twelve years. REV. DR. SAMUEL HART, of Burlington, has been elected bishop of the Episcopal church of Vermont. MRS. ANGELINE DEMARRIE died at Chippewa Falls, Wis., aged 121 years. WILLIAM MUTCHLER, democratic member of congress from the Eighth Pennsylvania district, died suddenly of heart disease at his home in Easton. THE 80th anniversary of the birth of Henry Ward Beecher was commemorated at Association hall in Brooklyn. THE funeral services of Senator Leland Stanford were held on the grounds of Stanford university at Palo Alto, Cal., and the remains were placed in the family mausoleum. JOHN C. KOCH, the republican candidate for mayor of Milwaukee, defeated Garret Dunde. democrat, by 3,500 votes. REV. W. W. KONE, aged 90 years, died at Denison, Tex. He was the oldest Baptist minister in the United States, having entered the ministry at the age of 18. THE Pennsylvania democratic state convention will be held at Harrisburg September 19.

FOREIGN. SARAH BERNHARDT was robbed of jewels of the value of 300,000 francs in Rio Janeiro. EDWARD KELLY and J. N. Clothier law students, and Edward Rivard and Camille Maguan, medical students, were drowned by the upsetting of a boat at Toronto, Ont. INVESTIGATION of the bomb explosion at Madrid has developed a plot embracing anarchists in several European countries. REPORTS received from Mecca show that in five days there were 830 deaths from cholera in that city. It was said the scourge was decreasing rapidly throughout Russia. HER MAJESTY'S great twin screw battleship Victoria, flying the flag of Vice Admiral George C. Tryon, K. C. B., commander of the Mediterranean station, was run into by the battleship Camperdown and sunk in 18 fathoms of water off Tripoli, and at least 400 of her officers and crew, including the vice admiral, went to the bottom with her. TWENTY men were killed and scores wounded as the result of refusal by a British magistrate to permit the celebration of a Mohammedan festival at Rangoon. GOLDSBROUGH, MORT& CO., bankers at Melbourne, Australia, suspended payment with liabilities of £2,500,000. RETURNS from the bye elections in Germany indicate that the government will probably have a majority of one in the reichstag. AN explosion of molten iron in Rohig's iron works at Madgeburg, Saxony, killed six workmen and seven others were terribly burned. THE body of a woman of the unfortunate class was found in a suburb of London with her throat cut in the manner affected by Jack the Ripper. INDIA has stopped the free coinage of silver and decided to make gold the money standard of the country.

LATER. A TORNADO at Oakley, Kan., destroyed thousands of dollars’ worth of property. A strip of country 1 mile wide and 6 miles long was swept clean, every building in its path being torn into kindling wood. THE business portion of Union City, Ind., was destroyed by fire. JACOB LYONS, a farmer at Ottawa, O., fatally shot his wife beeause she refused to live with him and then killed himself. JOHN HUDSON, a pioneer of southern Michigan, died near Battle Creek, aged 101 years. THOMAS McMULLEN, 8 years old, and his brother Joseph, 12 years old, were drowned in the Genesee river at Rochester, N. Y., while in swimming. H. H. WYLIE made the 1,000 miles from New York to Chicago on a bicycle in ten days and four hours. THE Bedford (Ind.) Stone Quarries company, the largest producers of oolitic limestone in the world, made an assignment.

THE Broadway bank at Los Angeles, Cal., that failed recently, has resumed business. THE Illinois Fuel company in Chicago, with assets of $150,000 and liabilities of $100,000, has been driven to the wall. MRS. CATHERINE NEUMANN and her three children, aged 20, 15 and 12 years respectively, perished in flames that destroyed their home in Saginaw, Mich. AT the annual meeting in Boston of the Society of the Army of the Potomac Gen. Nelson H. Miles, U. S. A., was elected president. THE principal part of the town of Lexington, O. T., was destroyed by fire and two men perished in the flames. THE Second national bank of Ashland, Ky., and the American exchange bank of Minneapolis, Minn., closed their doors. THREE convicts were shot dead by guards while attempting to escape from the prison at Folsom, Cal. JULIA FORCE, on trial at Atlanta, Ga., for the murder of her two sisters, was declared not guilty and will he confined in an insane asylum. THE Sagamore hotel at Lake George, N. Y., was destroyed by fire, the loss being $200,000. THE deaths from cholera at Mecca, Egypt, were averaging 600 a day. THE cowboy race to Chicago which was begun at Chadron, Neb.. June 13 and pursued 1,040 miles through three states, was won by Berry, who made the distance in 13 days, 15 hours and 35 minutes—an average of 77 miles daily.