People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1893 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. DOMESTIC. LIGHTNING struck and burned the farmhouse of A. Roberts near Gagetown, Mich., and five of the ten occupants perished in the flames. A CYCLONE swept the beach at Bath, N. Y., doing great damage. AT a meeting in Chicago of the National Columbian commission President Palmer said that the opening of the gates of the fair on Sunday was in violation of faith, was done without warrant of law and had injured the good name of the commission, and asked for the adoption of a resolution declaring that the gates were open in defiance of a rule of the commission. The matter was postponed until the next meeting. A TEAM driven by M. P. Bradley ran away at Oregon City, Ore., and upset a wagon, throwing Bradley, his wife and four children over a precipice 40 feet high. Mrs. Bradley was killed and two children fatally injured. A CYCLONE in Iowa did great damage

in the counties of Calhoun, Cherokee, Buena Vista, Ida, Sac and Pocahontas. The village of Pomeroy was almost entirely swept away and over fifty persons were reported killed. At Quimby two aged women were killed, and at Aurelia over a dozen persons lost their lives. Manson was half destroyed and several persons were killed, and at Fonda ten or more lives were lost. In addition to the above scores of persons were injured. The property loss was enormous. A CYCLONE passed over the central part of Rogers county, Neb., destroying barns, houses, windmills and fruit trees. Several persons were injured. IT costs about $16,000 a day to carry on the World’s Columbian exposition. JOSEPH D. CURTIS, ex-sheriff of Brooke county, W. Va., who recently disappeared, was said to be short in his accounts to the amount of $40,000. A YACHT capsized in Gravesend bay, near New York, and seven persons were drowned. THE world's 2-mile race record (4:48½) for trotters was broken at Salem, Ore., by the stallion Blondie, who made the distance in 4:48.

THE entire business portion of Russiaville, Ind., was swept away by fire. A POWDER mill was struck by lightning and demolished near Kingston, N. Y., and several buildings were destroyed and nine persons injured. DURING June forty-six deaths occurred at Ironwood, M[illegible] from typhoid fever. MR. CLEVELAND'S message will be all that the extra session of congress will be called upon to consider. THE proposed meeting of anarchists in New York to celebrate Gov. Altgeld’s pardon of the Chicago anarchists— Schwab, Neebe and Fielden— was stopped by order of Superintendent of Police Byrnes. THE New Jersey Sheep & Wool company, doing business at Jersey City, failed for $500,000. ANTON FALLS and Ida Johnson, a young couple soon to be married, were killed by the cars at Galesville, Wis. N. B. PLUMMER shot and killed Miss Sadie Fisher at Bird’s Points, Mo., because she refused to marry him and then shot himself fatally. THE Washington national bank at Spokane which suspended several weeks ago has resumed. IT was said that conductors and engineers on the Queen & Crescent railroad had robbed the company of goods valued at $40,000.

The American Bankers’ association ■will convene in Chicago September 6. Fire in the oil town of McDonald, Pa., destroyed ten buildings, causing a loss of SIOO,OOO. There were 324 business failures reported in the United States during the seven days ended on the 7th. In the week preceding there were 234, and during the corresponding time in 1892 the number was 190. Train robbers near Palestine, Tex., secured SSOO from the Pacific Express company and overlooked $25,000. Dubins the week ended on the 7th leading clearing houses in the United States reported exchanges amounting to $1,051,402,382, against $936,117,887 the previous week. As compared with the corresponding week of 1892 the increase was 2.6. The total available stock of wheat in the country is 100 per cent, more than last year. There were seventy-four people dead, at least five more to die, and over 100 injured as a result of the cyclone that made its start at Quimby, la., south of Cherokee, and ended at Pomeroy. The property loss was immense, many persons were homeless and destitute, and the governor issued an appeal for aid. During a drunken fight at Woodbine, Ky., City Marshal Morrissy, Bud Smith and Jim Francis were killed and four others were wounded. George Carroll, a miller, was browned at Terre Haute, Ind., while trying to save the life of his young nephew. Seay J. Miller, the negro charged with the outrage and murder of Marv and Ruby Ray at Bardwell, Ky., was hanged by a mob and the body burned after being horribly mutila>d. Eight persons were injured, three probably fatally, during a fire in Chicago in the Lincoln hotel A review of the trade situation shows a perceptible improvement in tone in business circles. D. S. Krieder, wife and four children were butchered at Cando, N. D., by Albert Banmberger, a nephew of Krieder. A dispute over wages was the supposed cause. t Patrick Riley & Son, leather deal ers at Newark, N. J„ failed for $200,000. The Somerset county bank at Trenton, N. J., closed its doors, with liabilites of oversloo.ooo.

The percentages ot the baseball clubs in the National league for the week ended on the Bth were as follows: Philadelphia, .661; Boston, .627; Brooklyn, .676; Cleveland, .566: Pittsburgh, 550; Cincinnati, .483; Baltimore. .466; New York, .458; St Louis, .448; Washington, .410; Chicago, .407; Louisville, .327. A severe rainstorm flooded several small towns in Dane county, Wis., and great damage to property resulted. Freight trains on the Philadelphia <fc Erie road collided near Johnsonburg, Pa, and Engineer John Braddock and Fireman William Hall were killed and four other trainmen were terribly injured. A HAIL and windstorm near Rockyford, Col., did damage to the extent of SIOO,OOO. Nels J. Hoff, a pioneer of Duluth. Minn., killed himself after an attempt upon his wife’s life. The New- York & New Haven railroad lost sixty-four freight cars and other property by fire at New Haven, Conn., the loss being SIOO,OOO. Mrs. Jacob Lohnes and her baby were burned to death bj- an explosion of kerosene at Pekin, 111. Albert Lewis was shot and killed and Charles Lewis fatally wounded in the climax of a feud with the Yandell family at Princeton, Ky. A heavy electric and rainstorm visited Middlesborough, Ky., in which a shower of fish of the sun perch species was precipitated on the town. The wife, son and daughter of Henry Ganns were killed by the cars at a crossing in Richmond. Ind. The steamer Falcon, with Lieut Peary and party on board, sailed from Portland, Me., for Greenland on their arctic expedition. The bank at Lesueur, Minn., the Northern national at Big Rapids. Mich., and the Citizens’ at Winneconne, Wis., shut their doors. John Lyons and Joseph Bishop were drowned at Stoneboro, Pa., by the capsizing of their boat. During a gale on the lake at Chicago the yacht Chesapeake was upset and Miss Ethel Chase, of Boston; William Cornish and Harvey Marlow, of Chicago, and T. Thambelus, of Athens, Greece, were drowned. Frank Bayes, a farmer living near Wauseon, 0., killed his young wife by cutting her throat and then shot himself. Insanity was the cause. The bleachery and dye works at Lodi, N. J., owned by Byrnes Bros., were destroyed by fire, the loss being SIOO,OOO. President Moshier, of the Capital national bank of Lincoln, Neb., was sentenced to five years in prison for wrecking the bank.

The burning of the new school building at Monterey. Cal., destroyed many priceless papers relating to the early history of California. Meeting accident in a Windsor (Conn.) swamp Mrs. Mary Media remained without food for forty-one days. The total amount of damage done by the recent cyclone in lowa was conservatively estimated at $806,000. It was reported that hot winds had practically ruined the Kansas crops. The visible supply of grain in the United States on the 10th was: Wheat, 61.820,000 bushels; corn, 8,534,000 bushels; oats, 3,016,000 bushels; rye, 362,000 bushels; barley, 390,000 bushels. The State bank at Shubert, Neb., closed its doors owing to the flight of the cashier, G. V. Argaboright, with $21,000 belonging to the institution. The cold-storage building on the world’s fair grounds was destroyed by fire and thirteen firemen and four Columbian guards perished in the flames and twenty-four other persons were seriously burned. The property loss was placed at $500,000. Messrs. Volger, Fuhrman and Jacobs were found guilty at Alpena, Mich., of murdering Albert Moliter, a merchant, on August 23, 1875. The July returns to the department of agriculture make the average condition of wheat 76.6 per cent., rye, 85.3, barley, 88.8, oats, 88.3 and potatoes, 101.1.

The gross earnings of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul road for the year ended June 30 were $33,975,054, against $32,283,508 for the previous year. The Chamberlain Investment company at Denver, the largest real estate firm in the west, closed its doors with liabilities of $2,362,118 and assets of $3,000,000. The Southern California national bank and University bank at Los Angeles, Cal., which failed recently, have resumed business. After a search of thirty years Chief Little believes he has in the person of Leroy Shear the murderer of two guards in the union prison camp located at Elmira, N. Y., during the war. Ten members of the famous Garza gang of Mexican desperadoes and revolutionists were placed in the penitentiary at Anamosa, la., for violating the United States neutrality law with Mexico. An engine and fifteen freight cars were wrecked at Bagley, Mich., and Brakeman Fox was killed and Engineer Herrington and Fireman Lolan were fatally injured. Augustus Hemenway, of Canton, Mo., invited the twenty-six public school teachers there to a ten-day trip to the world’s fair at his expense. The floating indebtedness of the world’s fair corporation has been retired and money will now be accumulated to retire bonds. The statue of P. T. Barnum at Seaside park in Bridgeport, Conn., was disfigured by some vandal by being covered with red paint. Convict Oscar Miller was killed and three prisoners wounded in an attempt to escape from the penitentiary at lonia, Mich. A hailstorm in Otter Tail county, Minn., damaged over 20,000 acres of growing crops, causing a loss of SIOO,000. Charles Hoyle, a St. Louis capitalist, assigned to Charles C. Nichols, with liabilities of $230 000. William Waddell, his wife and four children while in camp on the border in Kansas awaiting the opening of the Cherokee strip were drowned in a flood that carried away their dugout

Chihatown in Oroville, Cat, was wiped out by fire. The banking house of W. F. Thornton <fc Son at Shelbyville, 111., made an assignment with liabilities of $500,000, involving hundreds of business men and farmers. During a fight at a picnic near Mascoutah, IIL, twenty-five men were hurt, one fatally. The issue of standard silve- dollars from the mints and treasury offices during the week ended July 8 was $350,240; for the corresponding period of 1892, $445,395. The total gold reserve fund on that date was $97,286,101. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Samuel Blatchford, associate justice of the United States supreme court, died at Newport, R. 1., aged 73 years. He was appointed a member of the court by President Arthur in March, 1882. lowa democrats will hold their stats convention in Des Moines on August 23. Capt. George White Remick, one of the naval heroes of the civil war, who served on the Kearsage during her engagement with the Alabama, died at Newburyport, Mass., aged 72 years. Dr. Thomas Sivetek, 93 years of age, and one of the oldest physicians in America, died at Salem, la. James McMullen, the oldest man in ■ Kentucky, died near Bardwell, aged 117 years. He was born in Virginia in 1776. Abraham K. Allison, who was gov- I ernor of Florida in the ’6os, died at Jack- ; sonville, aged 83 years.

FOREIGN. Emperor William opened the German reichstag in person. Chinese pirates captured a boat from the Taiping custom house and carried off $20,000. Over 60,000 soldiers were stationed in Paris to assist in quelling the riots started by students but now carried on by anarchists. Prince George of York, the only son of the prince of Wales, and Princess May of Teck were married in London. Over 200 costly presents were received by the young couple, that of the princess of Wales alone being valued at $1,250,000. Later advices from the colliery explosion at Yorkshire, England, say that 138 dead bodies have been recovered. The Spanish steamer Don Juan was gutted by fire at sea off Union, Spain, and 155 Chinese passengers were drowned.

The International Christian Endeavor convention met at Montreal with delegates present from all parts of the world. The report of the secretary showed that the membership of the organization was 1,577,040. The Infanta Eulalie arrived at her home in Madrid. She expressed herself as greatly pleased with the cordiality of her reception in the United States. At the closing exercises in Montreal of the Christian Endeavor convention resolutions were adopted protesting against the desecration of Sunday by the opening on that day of the world’s fair, declaring the action of the local directory to be repugnant to common honesty and a flagrant breach of good faith, and declaring that said directory had brought lasting disgrace upon what ought to be a glory. Drought in many sections of EuVope bids fair to ruin the agriculturists. Fodder is a total failure. Twenty lives were lost by the capsizing of a yacht off Skegness, an English watering place. Hundreds were dying from cholera at Mecca, Egypt, and the road between that city and Mouna was strewn with corpses, it being impossible to bury them. LATER. By a vote of 54 to 6 the world’s fair national commission put itself on record in favor of closing the exposition gates Sunday. President Palmer said the gates were open on the Sabbath in defiance of congress, in defiance of the commission and in defiance of the wishes of employes. The Terre Haute (Ind.) Car company failed for $270,000.

Seventy-five persons were killed by the recent cyclone at Pomeroy, la., and many others were left destitute and in urgent need of aid. J. S. Conover & Co., manufacturers in New York and dealers in open fireplaces, grates and fenders, wood mantels and tiles, failed for $400,000. The Kansas City Safe deposit and savings bank, one of the largest institutions of its kind in Missouri, made an assignment, with liabilities of $1,700,000 and assets of $2,000,000. The village of Fairville, a suburb of St. John, N. 8., was almost destroyed by fire, and eighty families were left homeless.

The North Galveston (Tex.) Land & Improvement association was placed in the hands of a receiver with liabilities of $ 00,000. Ten more bodies were discovered in the cold-storage warehouse fire on the world’s fair grounds, making twenty-three in all. I ire destroyed the factory of the Lake Superior Mineral Paint company and adjacent buildings at West Superior, Wis., the loss being SIOO,OOO. Misses Carrie and Pearl Plant (sisters) started to walk from Muskegon, Mich., to the world’s fair. The private bank of John L. Davis at Auburn, Ind., made an assignment, and the Holt county bank at O’Neill, Neb., closed its doors. Twenty-five families comprising eighty-three persons were poisoned byeating bid cheese at Mansfield, 0., and twelve of the sufferers may die. The Hercules Iron Works company of Chicago failed for $200,000. Mbs. C. H. Vanabsdale, aged 28, wife of the leading dry goods merchant at Beatrice, Neb., and Mary Hogenfeldt, her servant, were burned to death by an explosion of gasoline. Mrs. Charles Gollmeb, of Alton, 111., gave birth to her twenty-second child. The total fire loss in the United States and Canada for June last was $16,344,950, against $9,265,550 in June, 1892. The aggregate loss for the first six months of 1893 is 85,982,600, against $65,437,250 last year.