People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1893 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. DOMESTIC. HARRIS BROS., dealers in gloves in New York, failed for $100,000. THE postmaster general has decided to abandon the three sizes of postal cards now in use and to substitute one size for both single and reply cards. KELLY and Peterson, two laborers were instantly killed by lightning at Cedar Rapids, Ia. THE National Retail Clerks’ union in session at Nashville, Tenn., decided to make Chicago their permanent headquarters and elected F. P. Fitzwilliams, of Nashville, as president. H. C. W. MEYER was arrested in Detroit charged with poisoning no less than five young women —each of whom, he represented as his wife —and one man, for the purpose of securing life insurance which he had taken out on their lives. J. K. ARMSTRONG, of Tipton, O., county treasurer, was said to be short $25,000 in his accounts. His term expires August 17, 1893. THE dead bodies of two unknown men were found in a dense thicket on the Ray farm near West Newton, Pa. THE business section of Luckey, O., was almost completely wiped out by fire, the loss being $100,000. FOR the first time in the history of the trade every plate-glass factory in the United States is closed, and that indefinitely, and fully 10,000 men are idle. Overproduction is the cause. THE Nebraska savings bank at Lincoln closed its doors with liabilities of $100,000. THE total number of original pension certificates of all kinds issued during the fiscal year ended Juno 30, 1893, was 121,628, against 222,297 during the preceding year. The net increase to the rolls during the past fiscal year was 91,628, against 199,808 for the year before. THOMAS CRAIG and William Shannon, two well-known explorers, were drowned by the capsizing of their boat in Rainy lake, Minnesota. ANNA WAGNER, the Indianapolis servant of the Koesters, has been indicted for poisoning five of the family. FIVE persons were killed and a score more injured by an accident to a West Shore express train at Newburg, N. Y. THREE highwaymen rode into Mound Valley, Kan., bound the cashier of a bank and secured $600 in money. ROLFE N., with a record of 2:26, valued at $10,000, dropped dead on the track at Saginaw, Mich. APPLICANTS for pensions must hereafter file their military and medical history, according to Commissioner Lochren's order. WHILE drunk William Cook, of Pemberville, O., made a murderous assault with a club upon his four children, injuring three of them fatally. ANNIE MORRIS has been masquerading as Frank Blunt for fourteen years. Her arrest at Milwaukee revealed her identity. THE third annual meeting of the Baptist Young People’s Union of America commenced at Indianapolis with nearly 5,000 delegates and visitors present HENRY HOWARD, a farmer near Pueblo, Col., 50 years of age, was murdered for his money and his body thrown in a well. He was unmarried and a hermit

IN a freight wreck at Henryville, Ind., George Shirley, engineer, and Brakeman Brookbank were mortally wounded. OTTO REINECK, Tillie Williams and Annie Watson, a noted Chicago gang of thieves, were sentenced at Denver to ten years each in the penitentiary. ALLEN BUTLER, a wealthy colored man of Lawrence county, Ind., was found hanging by the neck dead near Vincennes, and it was believed he was hanged by a mob for performing a criminal operation upon a young white girl. AN army of crickets was devastating Wyoming of every sort of vegetation. THE National bank of Kansas City, Mo., failed with liabilities of $1,000,000 and assets of $3,000,000. The failure caused the Franklin savings bank of the same city to close its doors. ANTICIPATING a raid by robbers officials of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas road placed armed guards on trains. BY a vote of 24 to 4 the local directory of the World’s Columbian exposition passed resolutions rescinding the action of the meeting of May 16 and ordered the gates closed on all Sundays after the 16th. THE head chief of the Sioux nation of Indians, Young-Man-Afraid-of-His-Horses,dropped dead at Newcastle, Wyo. IT was reported at Ishpeming, Mich., that the Schleisinger syndicate, the largest operators in ore in the world, had failed with millions of liabilities. BUSINESS failures to the number of 374 occurred in the United States in the seven days ended on the 14th. During the week previous the failures numbered 324, against 168 in the corresponding time in 1892. W. H. BUSH and N. M. Tabor, lessees of .the Brown Palace hotel in Denver, made an assignment with liabilities placed at $650,000. EXCHANGES amounting to $1,000,390,677 were reported by clearing-houses in the United States during the seven days ended on the 14th, against $1,051,402,282 the preceding seven days. The increase, compared with the corresponding in 1892, was 12.5 per cent. TWO PERSONS were killed, over a dozen injured and much property destroyed by a cyclone which passed over Stillwater, Minn., and vicinity. THE bank of Hay & Webb made a general assignment at Carmi, Ill., with liabilities of $176,000 and assets of $216,000. THE report of the world’s fair auditor shows that the total receipts of the exposition up to June 30 were $21,251,316 and the total expenses were $20,610,160. |

ANNIE GEARY, aged 17, and Mary Schireber, aged 5, were burned to death at their home in Port Clinton, O., by an explosion of gasoline. TWO ROBBERS escaping from officers at Westfield, Pa., jumped down an embankment on a bed of rocks and were killed. THE statement of the condition of national banks throughout the country shows a startling decline in deposits. FIVE knights of pythias were injured in a wreck at Vincennes, Ind., one of them fatally. AT the annual meeting in Indianapolis of the Baptist Young People's Union of America John H. Chapman, of Chicago, was reelected president. GEORGE GRANDIN left New York to walk to the world’s fair. He carried no money with him. SNEAK thieves stole a tray containing nearly $10,000 worth of diamonds from the jewelry store of T. V. Dickinson in Niagara Falls, N. Y. SIX deaths from sunstroke and a large number of serious cases of prostration were reported in Chicago on the 14th. THE United States grand jury at Tacoma, Wash., indicted President Van Horne, of the Canadian Pacific railroad, and all the other leading officials for violating the interstate commerce law. FIRE in the Fresno flouring mills at Fresno, Cal., caused a loss of $100,000. MRS. ADAM ALLIS and her son and daughter and Willie Boyce were drowned in a stream near Mill Creek, Ind. Mrs. Allis and her daughter lost their lives in trying to save the two boys. THE percentages ot the baseball clubs in the National league for the week ended on the 15th were as follows: Philadelphia, .662; Boston, .646; Pittsburgh, 576; Cleveland, .559; Brooklyn, .547; Cincinnati, .483; St. Louis, .462; New York, .446; Chicago, .446; Baltimore, .429; Washington, .399; Louisville, .327. NEAR Clinton, Tenn., Freeman and Mose Cox, brothers, were shot and mortally wounded while at work in a field by George Beels. LUCA SCESCICH, a capitalist and miner, shot and killed his wife at Los Angeles, Cal., and then killed himself. Jealousy was the cause. BY the explosion of a seven-inch mortar at an Italian picnic in Chicago two men were instantly killed and two others were fatally injured. S. N. DUSSENBERRE, cashier of the suspended bank at Puyallup, Wash., was arrested on a charge of embezzling $41,000 of the bank's funds. THE Columbian 100-yard sprinting event at Goshen, Ind., for a purse of $2,000 and the championship of America was won by Morris, of California, in 9 3-5 seconds, which is one-fifth of a second below the world’s record. THE Bouton Foundry company in Chicago failed for $200,000. THE private banking house of William Oberhauser in Peoria, Ill., closed its doors with liabilities of $60,422. IN the recent cyclone in Iowa fiftyseven persoms were killed at Pomeroy, thirteen in Cherokee county, six in Buena Vista county, four in Pocahontas county and two in Wright county. THE Northern bank, the oldest financial institution in Kansas City. Kan., closed its doors with assets placed at $475,000 and liabilities amounting to $315,000. AS a result of the closing of silver mines a reign of terror has been inaugurated in Montana by idle men. CLEMENT MILLER and his wife and baby were fatally burned by the explosion of coal oil at Columbus, O. RICHARD P ROUGHTON and Frederick T. Rawlins, prominent citizens of

Sandersville, Ga., killed each other in a street duel. THE Glen house at Glen Station, N. H., was burned, the loss being $100,000. THE John Kauffman Brewing compa ny in Cincinnati went into the hands of a receiver with liabilities of $150,000. W. F. WERNER, sheriff and tax collector of Crittenden county, Ark. while en route to Little Rock was shot and robbed of nearly $12,000 by persons unknown. GEORGE POND, aged 24; Albert Butteroux, aged 16, and Willie Clawson, aged 12, were drowned while bathing in the bay at Galveston, Tex. MEREDITH LEWIS, acquitted of the charge of murdering his wife, was lynched near Roseland, La., by unknown persons. TOM KING, a noted Oklahoma horsethief, was captured and turned out to be a woman. A CYCLONE swept over the town of Leipsic, O., unroofing many buildings and doing other damage. THE People’s savings, the Colorado savings and the Rocky Mountain dime and dollar savings bank closed their doors at Denver. The assets of the first named bank were $1,500,000; liabilities, $1,350,000. WARREN DEAN, a negro accused of assaulting a woman, was captured by a mob at Stone Creek, near Macon, Ga., and lynched. A HAILSTORM destroyed all the crops within an area of 20 miles in length and 7 miles in width in Cedar county. Neb. A MAN named Segerman and his son, aged about 13 years, were found murdered 4 miles from Wharton, O. T. Their pockets were rifled. THE First national bank of Cedartown, Ga., closed its doors. JOHN McCONNELL, morocco and cotton manufacturer in Philadelphia, failed for $200,000; assets, $100,000. D. C. JOHNSTON started from Steubenville, O., to drive overland to the Snake river in Idaho. His wife and son accompany him. He expects to be a year in making the trip. ANNA WITKOWER, a chambermaid at the Palmer house in Chicago, has become the wife of Baron Sohlberg, a millionaire Austrian nobleman. THE council of administration has decided not to cooperate with the plan of the railroads to bring all western newspaper men and their wives to the world’s fair free. IN a prize fight in the outskirts of New York between George McDonald and Frank J. Egan the former was struck a blow in the second round that killed him.

THE Missouri national bank of Kansas City closed its doors with liabilities of $700,000 and assets of $1,254,785. A CONGRESS for teachers opened in Chicago with distinguished educators present from all parts of the globe. A TRAIN on the Grand Trunk road struck a street car in Chicago and Thomas Perkins, John Finn,and Grace Hunt were killed and ten other persons were injured, some fatally. ONE of the pigeons let loose on the worlds fair grounds reached its home at Ozone Park, L. I., about 1,000 miles away, in 46 hours and 8 minutes. THE 9th of September has been designated as Grand Army day at the world's fair. SHERIFF SPRADLEY, of Nacogdoches, Tex., killed his fifth man in Joel Goodwin, who had a murderous record. The Duplex Street Railway Track company, a West Virginia corporation doing business in New York, failed for $150,000. BANDS of Mormons are at work in Virginia proselyting. They avow their belief in polygamy. TWO OIL tanks at Whiting, Ind., exploded and the Standard Oil company lost 200,000 gallons of refined petroleum. WORKMEN at Elwood, Ind., where factories have closed, were suffering for the necessaries of life. THE will of the late Martin Richelberger, of York, Pa., bequeaths almost $85,000 to Yale university. THE world’s fair national commission acquiesced in the action of the local directory in closing the gates Sunday and adopted resolutions appealing to the people, now that all discussion is ended, to visit the fair. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. THE Massachusetts republicans will hold their state convention in Boston on October 7. THE Iowa state league of republican clubs will meet in Des Monies on August 15. GEN. W. H. ENOCHS, congressman from the Tenth district of Ohio, was found dead in bed at his home in Ironton. JAMES McCORMICK died at Darwin, Ill., aged 110 years. REAR ADMIRAL EARLE ENGLISH (retired) died at his residence in Washington, aged 69 years. GEN. EDWARD JARDINE, a veteran of the late war, died at his home in New York, aged 65 years. THOMAS EDWARD WALSH, president of the university of Notre Dame at South Bend, Ind., died of Bright’s disease at St. Mary’s hospital in Milwaukee, aged 40 years.

FOREIGN. DURING the seven days ended on the 12th there were 139 deaths from cholera in various portions of Russia and 403 new cases. AT a disreputable resort in the City of Mexico three women became involved in a quarrel which resulted in a battle with knives and all three were killed. IN a battle with French gunboats on the Meinam river twenty Siamese were killed and fourteen wounded. LIEUT. PEARY and party, on board the steamer Falcon, sailed from St. John’s, N. F., for Greenland by way of Labrador. THE army bill passed the German reichstag by a vote of 201 to 185. A TRAIN ran off the track and went over a high precipice near Bilboa, Spain, and six persons were killed and thirty seriously injured. ANTI-SEMITE mobs in Yalta, Russia, beat and killed many Jews and plundered their homes of everything of value. LATER. THREE national banks, the Union, the Commercial and the National bank of commerce, and the Mercantile, the Capital and the North Denver banks closed their doors in Denver, pulling down with them several large commercial firms. JACKSON WRIGHT (colored) died at Racine, Wis., aged 101 years. AN excursion train carrying a Sunday school picnic party from Buffalo was wrecked at East Aurora, N. Y., and twenty children were hurt EX-GOV. WILLIAM M. STONE, of Iowa, late commissioner general of the land office, died at his residence near Oklahoma City, O. T., aged 66 years. Mr. Stone came out of the war as colonel of the Twenty-second Iowa infantry and was elected governor in 1863 and again in 1865. THE drought which extended over an area of 40,000 square miles in western Texas was broken by good rains. LOPEZ MUMAUGH, a cigarmaker at Indianapolis, fatally shot Miss Mary Winsh, sister of his divorced wife, and then killed himself. THIRTY warehouse buildings in London were burned, causing a loss of $7,500,000. MISS EMMA GARRETT, a Philadelphia school teacher, committed suicide in Chicago by leaping from a fifth-story window at the Briggs house. No cause was known. TWELVE men were drowned in the River Danube near Vienna by the upsetting of a boat. IN Kansas the Citizens’ bank of Kansas City, the Bank of Richmond, the Farmers’ and Merchants' bank of Osawatomie and the First national bank and the People’s savings bank of Fort Scott were forced to stop business. EX-CONGRESSMAN FREDERICK A. JOHNSON died of heart failure at Glens Falls, N. Y., aged 65. BONEY BETS and Jacob Takington were killed by the cars near Whitehall, Ill. Both men were drunk. CATTLE in the Cherokee strip and in Oklahoma were dying by the thousand from Texas fever. DURING the twelve months ended June 30, 1893, the gold exports amounted to $108,680,844 and the imports to $21,174,381; excess of exports, $87,506,463. During the corresponding period of the preceding year the exports were $50,195,327 and the imports $49,699,454; excess of exports, $495,673. The silver exports were $40,737,319 and the imports $23,193,252; excess of exports, $15,544,067. Increase of exports over the preceding year, $12,855,473.