People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1893 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. DOMESTIC. F. G. PIERRA & CO., shipping commission merchants in New York, failed for $100,000. AN explosion of gas in the Green Ridge colliery at Mount Carmel, Pa., killed one man instantly and fatally injured two others. AFTER listening to an address by Prof. Walter Sims 2,000 citizens of Duluth, Minn., resolved that the presence of Mgr. Satolli in this country was a menace to their liberties. IN thirty counties in the west of Kansas the wheat crop is a failure and Gov. Lewelling has been appealed to for relief. WILLIAM H. MOORE, editor of the Augusta (Ga.) Evening News, dropped dead in his room. He had been on the street fifteen minutes previously. A STATUE of Admiral Faragut was unveiled in Marine park, Boston. JIM ANDERSON, a notorious burglar, who has committed crime in every large city in the state and always escaped conviction, was sentenced at Columbus O., to five years’ imprisonment. TWO SQUARES of the business portion of Augusta, Mich., were burned over. THE attorney general of New York says it is the duty of all fish and game protectors to prohibit fishing on Sunday. CHARLES WILSON shot his wife fatally at Fairfield, Ia., and then fatally shot himself. Domestic trouble was the cause.

THE Hartly bank at Jericho, Mo.,was robbed by burglars of $12,000. THE number of presidential post offices in the United States is now 3,337, and the aggregate salaries paid to the postmasters for the past year was $5,665,000. THE doors of the State bank of Lockhaven, Pa., were closed. THE Union Trust company of Sioux City, Ia., a receiver, with liabilities of $350,000. AT the convention in Saratoga, N. Y., of state republican clubs George B. Green, mayor of Binghamton, was chosen president. NEARLY a million Columbian souvenir half dollars were held at the mint in Philadelphia owing to the opinion of Attorney General Olney that no more money ought to be paid to the Illinois corporation known as the “World’s Columbian Exposition.” THE market for silver in New York was completely demoralized by the stoppage of free silver coinage in India. JOHN SEAMAN, for more than fifteen years treasurer of Willshire, O., was said to be a defaulter to the amount of $5,000. GEORGE W. STAGE, of Painesville, O., was missing, together with a certificate of deposit for $10,080 and a certified check for $1,500 belonging to the city.

ASSISTANT SECRETARY REYNOLDS, of the interior department, says that women who ministered to wounded soldiers during the war are entitled to pensions. REPRESENTATIVE mining men met in Denver and decided to close all the smelters, mills and silver mines in Colorado until such time as silver is appreciated at its proper worth. MRS. GENERAL GRANT and Mrs. Jefferson Davis met at Cranston-on-the-Hudson, N. Y., and enjoyed a long talk upon reminiscences of their own and their husbands active and eventful careers. ELLSWORTH GOSHEN, aged 9 years was sentenced at St. Joseph, Mo., to twelve years’ imprisonment for wrecking a freight train. OWING to trouble between the students and faculty of the state normal school at Terre Haute, Ind., the entire class of 1893 refused to graduate and the commencement exercises were declared off. THE Women’s Christian Temperance union has inaugurated a crusade against the saloons in Fort Scott, Kan. DARTMOUTH college at Hanover, N. H., held its 123d commencement, the graduating class numbering sixty. THREE tramps were caught at Owensboro, Ky., by the employes of the Texas railway plundering the freight cars and the thieves were strung up and given twenty-five lashes. JOHN HARVEY, alias Arling, one of the most noted expert confidence men and all-around crooks in the country, died at Niagara Falls, N. Y. THE annual convention of the Epworth league met in Cleveland and Gov. McKinley and Mayor Blee made speeches of welcome. A DROP of two cents in cash wheat in Chicago took the price to the lowest point for many years, sixty-two and one-fourth cents. IN accordance with Attorney General Olney’s opinion the $570,880 worth of souvenir coins still in the Philadelphia mint will not be paid to the directors of the world’s fair. DR. C. E. SIMMONS, of New York, has been given $40,000 for professional attendance on Samuel J. Tilden for eight years. He sued for $143,300. CITIZENS of Naperville, Ill., hanged Gov. Altgeld in effigy for pardoning the Chicago Anarchists. PIETRO BUCCIERI was hanged at Beading, Pa., for murdering Sister Hildaberta in St Joseph’s hospital on June 28, 1892. THE reappearance of cholera in Europe does not cause any alarm among treasury officials in Washington, and they express the opinion that it will not reach this country. MRS. JULIUS COLLINS, of Oak Cliff, Tex., administered poison to herself and three little children. Poverty and a dissipated husband caused the deed. WHITE CAPS burned the dwelling, barn and outhouses of Henry Queer, a well-to-do ranchman near Leroy, Col., killed two of his horses and gave him warning to leave the state within ten days. No cause was know.

MRS. GUS WALDIN, of Burlinton, Ia., died so suddenly that a post-mortem examination was held and it was discovered that the heart, although perfectly healthy, had been burst by some tremendous emotion. THERE were 334 business failures reported in the United States during the seven days ended on the 3t0h ult. In the week preceding there were 217, and during the corresponding time in 1892 the number was 190. For the six months of 1893 the failures number 6,401, against 5,503 during the same period in 1892, showing an increase of 898. The total liabilities in the first six months of 1893 are $168,000,000, while the same period in 1892 they were $62,000,000, showing an increase of $106,000,000. DURING the week ended on the the 30th ult. leading clearing houses in the United States reported exchanges amounting to $936,117,887, against $3,309,822 the previous week. As compared with the corresponding week of 1892 the decrease was 7.4.

THE First national bank of Provo, Utah, closed its doors, with liabilities of $60,000. A VIOLENT rainstorm, followed by hail, passed over a portion of Iowa in the vicinity of Boone, doing great damage to growing crops. THE American and European copper producers have formed a trust, the properties affected being valued at over $200,000,000. THE Muskegon (Mich.) Iron & Steel company went into a receiver's hands with liabilities of $150,000. WILLIE KEYS, aged 8, and George Compton, aged 6 years, were fatally burned by a gasoline explosion at Hamilton, O. JOE BIRD, a negro, was shot at Wilburton, I. T., by order of the court for murdering his wife and mother-in-law. DURING the months of May and June the total paid attendance at the world’s fair was 3,723,579. AT the session of the Epworth league in Cleveland a report was adopted asking the world’s fair commissioners, on behalf of more than a million people, to close the exposition on Suhday. THE total government receipts during the last fiscal year aggregated $385,000,000 and the expenditures were $383,000,000, leaving a surplus of $200,000,000.

SAM WILSON, the lone bandit who robbed the express car of the Missouri Pacific train a few weeks ago, was sentenced at St. Louis to fifteen years in the penitentiary. WILLIAM PINKNEY and Daniel Barber, both colored, w’ere executed at Marlboro, Md., for the murder of Francis M. Bowie, a wealthy farmer of Prince George county, the evening of March 26 last. SCOTT WIKE, of Illinois, has been appointed assistant secretary of the treasury, and James F. Tillman, of Tennessee, register of the treasury. THE Bank of Clear Creek county at Georgetown, Col., made an assignment with liabilities of $233,000 and assets of $397,000 LIGHTNING set fire to the prairie in Hodgeman county, Kan., and three farm houses and many head of horses and cattle were burned. PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has issued a proclamation for the convening of congress in extraordinary session on August 7 to consider the financial situation. GUS ALBERS (white) was hanged at New Orleans for the brutal murder of Mrs. Wiemann, a widow lady who had very frequently befriended him. JOHN BERRY, the cowboy who was the first to arrive in Chicago in the great race from Chadron, Neb., was awarded the first prize of $1,000. THE public debt statement issued on the 1st showed that the debt decreased $1,217,258 during the month of June. The cash in the treasury was $745,004,601. The total debt, less the cash balance in the treasury, amounts to $838,969,476. ROBERT P. PORTER, superintendent of the census, tendered his resignation. WILLIAM B. SHAW, ex-cashier of the Lincoln national bank in Bath, Me., was sentenced to ten years in state’s prison for embezzlement. TEN lives were lost by floods from a crevasse at the New river basin near New Orleans. CLIFFORD CALVERLY walked across the Niagara gorge at Niagara Falls on a three-quarter inch wire cable. He also wheeled a cooking range out on it and there lighting a fire in it cooked several dishes of food, which he ate. R. E. PEARY'S ship Falcon left New York for the Arctic ocean. THE total amount of money received for duties, etc., at the New York custom house during the year ended on the 1st was $138,000,000. AT the session in Chicago of the National Association of Elocutionists F. F. Mackay, of New York, was elected president. THE military department of Arizona has been reorganized under the name of the department of Colorado and headquarters established at Denver. A STATEMENT of the government bureau of statistics shows the value of merchandise imported for the world’s fair was $12,160,042. A CONVENTION of the advocates of free coinage will be held at St. Louis July 17.

THE gold reserve in the treasury at Washington on the 1st was $95,485,413, or $436,773 more than a month ago. T. J. WOOD, until recently cashier of the Ninth national bank of Dallas, Tex., was arrested on the charge of embezzling $229,000 of the bank’s money. THE percentages of the baseball clubs in the National league for the week ended on the 1st were as follows: Boston, .660; Philadelphia, 642; Brooklyn, .642; Cleveland, .563; Pittsburgh, .500; New York, .481; Baltimore, .481; Cincinnati, .481; Washington, .444; St. Louis, .404; Chicago, .404;. Louisville, .256. BANK failures were reported as follows: The Chaffee county bank at Salida, Col., First national at Phillipsburg, Mont., Exchange at Webb City, Mo., and the First national at Ouray, Col. THE Madison Car company of Edwardsville. Ill., made an assignment with assets of $1,122,000 and liabilities of $918,000.

THE remains of Mrs. Charles Bogard, who died at Morrison, Pa., several months ago, were taken up for removal when it was found that the woman had been buried alive. ALEXANDER CAREY, a miner aged 68 years, killed his wife at Oskaloosa, Ia., in a quarrel over money and then took his own life. SEVEN THOUSAND men were thrown out of work by the shutting down of the iron mills at Youngstown, O. GOVERNMENT receipts during June aggregated $30,983,921, about a quarter of a million less than in June, 1892. The internal revenue receipts during the fiscal year just closed were, in round numbers, $160,000,000, or $6,000,000 more than during the previous year. HARVARD won the college baseball championship. BECAUSE she refused to marry him, Lee Henderson shot and killed Leona Wilson at Belona, Tex., and then committed suicide. NEW YORK state’s monument to the soldiers who fell at Gettysburg was dedicated in the presence of thousands.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. THE Ohio prohibitionists in state con vention at Cleveland nominated the following ticket: For governor, Rev. Gideon P. Machlin, of Germantown; lieutenant governor, S. H. Ellis, of Warren county; treasurer, Abram Ludlow, of Springfield; attorney general, S. E. Young, of Portage; supreme court judge, J. A. Gallaher, of Bellaire. The platform adopted favors absolute destruction of the liquor traffic, indorses woman suffrage, the granting of liberal pensions, the revision of the immigration laws and the election of president and United States senators by direct vote of the people. JAMES SHEAKLEY, of Alaska, has been appointed governor of that territory. EX-CONGRESSMAN WALLACE died at his home near Yorkville. S. C. He represented the state in the reconstructionist period. GEN. ROSECRANS will be succeeded as registrar of the treasurer by T. A. Tighman, of Tennessee, a prominent Farmers’ Alliance leader. ANTHONY J. DREXEL, the Philadelphia banker and philanthropist, died suddenly at Carlsbad, Germany, of apoplexy, aged 67 years. A low estimate of his fortune places it at $20,000,000. "GRANDMA" LUTERAL, of Astoria, Ill., celebrated her 101st birthday. GEORGIE DREW BARRYMORE, the noted actress, died suddenly in Santa Barbara, Cal. MRS. ASENATH MILLER died at her residence in St. Charles, Ill. Had she lived forty days more she would have completed her 100th year.

FOREIGN. QUEEN VICTORIA unveiled a statue of herself in Kensington gardens. It is the work of Princess Beatrice. THE drought which had prevailed at San Luis Potosi for the last five years was broken by one of the greatest floods that ever visited that section of Mexico. TWO SUPPOSED insane prisoners in the penitentiary at Puebla, Mexico, killed three fellow-convicts and wounded seven others with shoe knives. IN the British house of commons Mr. Gladstone's resolution that the homerule bill shall be reported by July 31 was carried by a vote of 299 to 267. THE official report of the loss of the British warship Victoria off Tripoli shows that 22 officers and 336 men were drowned, T. A. EDGE, an English bicyclist, finished a thousand mile road race in London in five days, beating the world’s record for the distance five hours and forty-nine minutes.

LATER. THE people’s party met in state convention at Columbus, O., and nominated J. E. Bracken, of Columbus, for governor, M. Blooney for lieutenant governor, W. H. Taylor for treasurer and J. H. Rhodes for attorney general. THE Omaha & South Texas Land company made an assignment at Houston with liabilities of $400,000. IT was believed that 145 miners were killed by an explosion of fire-damp in Ingram’s colliery at Yorkshire, England. THE Leroy business block at Petrolia, Pa., was burned, the loss being $300,000. JOHN MARZE, James Francis and Dempoll Smith were shot dead in a fight at a picnic near Woodbine, Ky., by Joel Mitchell. THE Kentucky legislature, after beng in session 131 days, adjourned sine die. THE largest attendance at the world’s fair on any one day since its opening was on the Fourth, when 302,906 admissions were recorded. IT was reported that King George of Greece had abdicated and that a republic had been declared. THE steamer Alofons was approachng Romanov, Russia, when its boiler exploded, killing twenty-six of the passengers. NEAR Schrieber, a small town at the head of Lake Superior, twenty Finlanders working on the Canadian Pacific railway were killed by a landslide. IN a fire at Buffalo, N. Y., caused by a lamp explosion, two children of Dennis McCarthy lost their lives.

ALEXANDER FRAZER, Patsey Daley, James Morris and J. A. Carlson were capsized in a sailboat on Lake Tahoe at Glenbrook, Nev., and all were drowned. THE trotter Ayres P., with running mate Telephone, went a mile on the kite track at Kirkwood, Del., in 2:03½. NEAR Kansas City, Mo., Irving Clark, aged 19, and Frank Paullin, 13 years old, were killed by lightning. THE Bullionville reduction works at Piache, Nev., were burned, the loss being over $100,000. AT Little Falls, Minn., Fred Denny, his wife and two children were drowned while crossing the river by the capsizing of a boat. DURING the month of June over 5,000 persons died from cholera at Mecca. THE American national bank of Leadville, Col., with liabilities of $342,000, the First national bank of Cisco, Tex., and the Jefferson county bank at Golden, Col., with liabilities of $76,000, closed their doors.