People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1893 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. DOMESTIC. THE Flanders dry goods house at Denver failed for $125,000. THE will of the late Anthony J Drexel was probated in Philadelphia. It shows that he left about $30,000,000. A CAN of naphtha exploded in the sweat-band factory of J. D. Campbell in Brooklyn, N. Y., killing J. D. Campbell and his son and John and Jacob Weiss, brothers. P. J. GALLAGHER has made another confession, this time reiterating the guilt of Dempsey in the Homestead (Pa.) poisonings. THE town of Ewen, Mich., was nearly destroyed by an incendiary fire and a man believed to be responsible was said to have been lynched. IN an effort to drive non-union men cut of the mines at Weir City, Kan., several persons were injured by strikers. PROPERTY valued at $800,000 was destroyed by fire at Long Island City, L. I., and hundreds of familes were homeless as a result of the blaze. THE Reynoldsville (Pa.) woolen mills, Sykes, Allis & Moorehouse, proprietors, were destroyed by fire, the loss being $100,000. JAMES DOWLING, cashier of the mint in New Orleans, was arrested on the charge of embezzling $25,000. BY a collision of freight trains at Tiskilwa, Ill., George Hickey, fireman, and Henry L. Strong, engineer, were killed. WHILE going home with his family from a party Charles Duerr, of Dayton, O., was murdered by three drunken rowdies. E. H. TAYLOR, JR. & SONS, one of the oldest whisky firms in the country, failed at Frankfort, Ky , for $100,000. AT Waupaca, Wis., Sam Stout, Tad Prior and Edward Bronson were acquitted by a jury of the murder of Samuel Mead on the night of October 9, 1883.

The building in New York occupied by the Eighteenth street telephone station was burned, causing a loss of $100,000. MEXICO'S fire brick works, the largest enterprise of the kind in Missouri, has discontinued operations. EXCHANGES amounting to $979,445,234 were reported by clearing-houses in the United States during the seven days ended on the 21st, against $1,000,390,677 the preceding seven days. The decrease,compared with the corresponding time in 1892, was 7.5 per cent. THREE young men, sons of Frank Lundgren, of Geneseo, Ill., aged respectively 15, 20 and 22, were drowned in Green river by the capsizing of a boat. BUSINESS failures to the number of 467 occurred in the United States in the seven days ended on the 21st. During the week previous the failures numbered 374, against 168 in the corresponding time in 1892. DURING a fight in Wise county, Va., between state troops and outlaws four soldiers were killed and six outlaws were mortally wounded. M. J. DOWLING, editor of the Star at Benville, Minn., a man with neither legs nor hands, was arrested by order of the village council for not working out his poll tax.

THE entire business portion of Edgerton, O., a small town of 1,200 inhab itants, was destroyed by fire, the loss being $100,000. THE senate of the National Union in session in Detroit, Mich., elected H. T. Brian, of Washington, as president. THE Commercial bank in Milwaukee closed its doors with liabilities of $1,656,850. Other banks closed their doors as follows: The Union at Greeley, Col., the Bank of Crested Butte, Col. and the Traders’ at Tacomah Falls, Wash. The First national at San Bernardino, Cal., resumed business, as did also the Second national at Ashland, Ky. BY an explosion of dynamite in a shanty in Minneapolis Gus Olson was blown into fragments. MISSES ELIZABETH WALTERS and Mabel Hallett, of New York city, were drowned while bathing in the surf at Shell Bank, Long Island. W. R. SHOEMAKER, of Metropolis, Ill., killed George and Richard Lukens and then committed suicide. A lawsuit caused it.

MASCOT defeated Hal Pointer and Flying Jib at Detroit, pacing five heats in less than 2:08 and breaking the world’s record. A NEGRO who assaulted and murdered the 9-year-old daughter of Carr Elliott in Lafayette county, Fla., was hanged by a mob. REV. GEORGE STOCKING, of Leavittsburg, O., who was suffering from poor health, ended his misery by cutting his throat. WILLIAM NAPIER and family, of Columbus, O., were badly poisoned by eating cabbage on which paris green had been spread. DEFECTIVE sewerage was causing a dangerous landslide in Cincinnati and many houses had already been completely wrecked. A CARELESS cigarette smoker started a fire in Little Goose Canon, Wyo., and much valuable timber was destroyed. OFFICERS of the revenue cutter Rush report the discovery of an active volcano near Cape St. John, Alaska. MRS. VANERSCHEK, a farmer’s wife at Rutledge, Minn., was held up by two masked men and robbed of $400. AN explosion in a coal mine at Edwardsville, Pa., fatally injured William Jones, Martin Brennan, B. Wilson and Patrick Malai. THE percentages ot the baseball clubs in the National league for the week ended on the 22d were as follows: Philadelphia, .649; Boston, .639; Pittsburgh, 576; Cleveland, .568; Brooklyn, .507; Baltimore. .471; Cincinnati. .464: St. Louis, .463; New York, .444; Chicago, .443; Washington, .403; Louisville, .361.

THE American line steamship Paris made the run from Southampton to New York in 6 days 9 hours and 30 minutes, breaking all previous records. AN unknown yacht was capsized east of Deer Island, Mass, and John W. Johnson, Albert T. Scott and Joseph Murphy were drowned. GEORGE BAGNELL, aged 71, and his grandson, aged 7, were drowned in Great South pond near Plymouth, Mass. THE gates of the world's fair were closed on Sunday.

TRAMP miners from Colorado state that the suffering there is terrible, and that authorities are suppressing the facts. DUNCAN, BREMER & CO.'s sawmill at Duluth, Minn., burned, causing a loss of $100,000. MASKED men carried away Mrs. McDonald and her two children from a farmhouse near Fort Wayne, Ind. LUTIE LASELLE, of Seymour. Ind., an only daughter, 16 years of age, poisoned herself with arsenic rather than take a whipping. BY the recent assessment in Kansas the railroads in the state must pay $10,500,000 more than in 1892. AN apparent shortage of $36,000 was discovered in the records of the state auditor of Kansas in connection with the sale of public school lands. IN Milwaukee the Milwaukee national and the South Side savings bank closed their doors, and the State national bank at Knoxville, Tenn., and First national at Russell, Kan., were forced to suspend. FRANK WALLER, of Indiana, broke the 25-mile bicycle record, making the distance in Detroit, in 1 hour 6 minutes and 10 seconds. GROUND will be broken in San Francisco this week for the California Midwinter exposition, which is to follow the world’s fair. FLAMES in the Keifer building in New Orleans caused a loss of $100,000 and J. E. McDonald, a fireman, was suffocated.

CHARLES W. DE PAUW, the millionaire manufacturer at New Albany, Ind., made an assignment with liabilities of $400,000. THE Misses Plant, of Nunica, Mich., arrived at the world’s fair grounds, after walking all the way from Muskegon, Mich., 220 miles. The journey was made in ten days. THE resignation of William A. Maury, assistant attorney general, was tendered to Attorney General Olney. LEE WALKER, a negro who assaulted Miss Mollie McCadden (white) and four colored girls, was lynched by a mob at Memphis. Tenn., and his body burned. ALLEN E. JONES, aged 40 years, living near Texarkana, Ark., beat out the brains of his wife and three children with an ax and then hanged himself. Business reverses had made him partially insane. THE Oxford Iron & Nail company at Belvidere, N. J., failed for $225,000. SINCE the 1st of January nearly 200 national banks throughout the country have closed their doors, against less than fifty during the same period last year. BY an explosion of dynamite in New York Marie A. Posey and her little girl were killed and two more of her children and Mamie McAdam were fatally injured. WHILE burning rubbish at Pittsburgh, Pa., Mrs. W. C. Connelly and her adopted daughter were fatally burned.

A FIRE in Hagerstown, Md., burned Jones & South’s store and other buildings, the loss being $125,000. MINERS on the Cocopah mountains in California have discovered remains of an ancient city buried in the sand. THE doors of the New Hampshire Trust company at Manchester, the largest financial institution in the state, were closed. THE Southern Electric company at Baltimore made a voluntary assignment with assets estimated at $160,000 and liabilities at $100,000. THE Forest and Dean mines near Highland Falls, N. Y., which had been in operation continuously for a hundred years, closed down for an indefinite period. DIRECTOR GENERAL DAVIS, President Higinbotham, Commissioner St. Clair, Commissioner Massey and Director C. H. Schwab were served with a notice to appear in court before Judge Stein in Chicago to show cause why they should not be attached for contempt of court in not opening the gates of the exposition on Sunday in violation of the injunction against closing issued in the Clingman case. THE Plainview (Neb.) State bank was robbed of $3,000 in cash, and in consequence the bank did not open its doors.

THE extensive manufacturing firm of Bradley & Co. at Syracuse, N. Y., went into a receiver’s hands with liabilities of $350,000. A SEVERE cyclone passed over the little town of Cale, I. T., destroying houses, barns, and everything in its path. FROM twenty to thirty Chinamen are said to enter the United States nightly via the Mexican border. A BLAZE in the Ohio Transfer & Storage company building at Columbus, O., destroyed the plant. Loss, $300,000. IN Washington Acting Mint Director Preston purchased 50,000 ounces of silver, paying therefor 69.60 per ounce, the lowest price yet paid for silver in the history of the government purchases.

BANK failures were reported as follows: The First national at Orlando, Fla., Tacoma national at Tacoma, Wash., City national at Louisville, Ky., Citizens at Connersville, Ind., Taylor county at Medford, Wis., and the National bank of the commonwealth and Bank of New England at Manchester, N. H. THE two hundredth anniversary of the birth of the city of Detroit, Mich., was celebrated. A STATEHOOD convention is called to meet at El Reno, O. T., on August 8. Every city, town and county in the territory will be represented. THE firm of Parkhurst & Wilkinson, iron merchants in Chicago, failed with assets of $1,000,000.

THE office of the United States express company at Perryville, O., was entered by burglars and about $2,500 of express funds taken. THREE boys and a man were killed by the explosion of a powder house near Huntington, Ind. DURING a gale at Buzzard’s Bay, Mass., a yacht was capsized and six persons were drowned. SEVENTY guards in camp at Seagirt, N. J., were poisoned by drinking from cups washed in oxalic acid. INDICTMENTS were found against Col. Ainsworth, George Dant, William Covert and Frank Sasse for the Ford’s theater disaster in Washington in which twenty-two persons were killed. WESTERN KANSAS was overrun with half-starved men who were winking their way east from Colorado, where they have been thrown out of employment by the closing of the silver mines and smelters.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. MRS. NAOMI SUTHERLAND-BAILEY, the first of the famous long-haired sisters to die, was buried in Glenwood cemetery at Lockport. N. Y. Her six sisters were at the funeral. CHARLES COLEVE JONES, historian of Georgia, is dead. He was born in Savannah October 28, 1831. REAR ADMIRAL MELANCTHON SMITH, U. S. A., died in Green Bay, Wis., of pneumonia, aged 83 years. CHARLES F. WASHBURN, head of the barbed wire firm of Washburn & Moen, died at Worcester, Mass., of apoplexy, aged 66 years. GEN. JOHN G. WALKER died in Washngton. He was a distinguished figure in the battles of Sharpsburg, Manassas and all the fights around Richmond. JAMES D. RAWLINS, a veteran of the Blackhawk war of 1832, and father of the distinguished Gen. John A. Rawlins, chief of staff to Gen. Grant, died at Guilford, Ill., aged 92 years. GOV. MARKHAM, of California, appointed ex-Gov. George C. Perkins, of San Francisco, United States senator to succeed the late Leland Stanford. GEN. WILLIAM VANDEVER died at his residence in Ventura, Cal., aged 76. He was elected to congress from Iowa in 1858 and reelected in 1860, but resigned his seat to enter the army. JOHN H. MCAVOY founder of the McAvoy Brewing company, died at his home in Chicago, aged 63 years.

FOREIGN. THE British bark Pinmore, Capt. Maxwell, which arrived at Queenstown, was one of the four contestants in the long race from San Francisco, and was the first of the racers to arrive. The vessels left San Francisco March 22 last. CHOLERA is rampant among the lower classes in Moscow. It has also appeared in Naples. AN order has been issued prohibiting the exportation of hay, straw or other fodder from Austria-Hungary. ST. ANNE DE LA PARADE, a village near the city of Quebec, was destroyed by fire and fully sixty families were homeless. CANADA'S exports for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1893, exceeded those of the previous year by $1,250,000, and are the greatest on record, aggregating $115,187,665. GAUDAUR defeated Hanlan in the boat race at Toronto, Ont., for the world’s championship. A PIRATICAL outbreak occurred among the Achinez passengers on board the Dutch steamer Rajah Kongsee, trading on the eastern coast of Achon, and the Achinez killed the English captain, mate and twenty-two of the Asiatic sailors.

LATER. THE Wisconsin Fire and Marine Insurance company’s bank in Milwaukee, the oldest bank in the state and having the largest line of depositors, closed its doors with heavy liabilities. Other bank failures were: The Farmers’ national at Findlay, O., the Bristol Banking and Trust company at Knoxville, Tenn., the Indianapolis national and the Bank of commerce at Indianapolis, Ind., and the Merchants’ national, the Louisville deposit and the Fourth national banks at Louisville, Ky. A CYCLONE at Sandoval, Ill., wrecked houses and uprooted trees. HOWARD MUTCHLER (dem.) was elected to congress from the Eighth district of Pennsylvania to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father. THE J. Obermann Brewing company in Milwaukee failed for $295,500. FORTY-FOUR states and six foreign countries were represented in the parade of commercial travelers in Chicago, and 12,000 men were in line. RIPLEY & BRONSON, iron merchants in St. Louis, made an assignment with liabilities of $150,000. FOREST fires were raging along the lines of the Green Bay & Chicago and Milwaukee & St. Paul railroads in Wood county, Wis., where the large cranberry marshes are located. NINE men were killed and twenty seriously wounded by an explosion at a dynamite factory near Havre, France. THE business portion of Hollow Rock, Tenn., was destroyed by fire, only the Record office and Lovelace Bros, store remaining standing. A WARRANT was issued for B. H. Nemitz, representative at the world’s fair of thirty-five Swiss watch manufacturers, who had disappeared, together with $40,000 worth of exhibits.

SPREADING rails caused the wrecking of a world’s fair excursion train on the Pittsburgh & Western road near Akron, O., and forty-two persons were injured, three fatally. CHOLERA was ravaging St. Louis, the capital of French Senegambia, and had made its appearance at Alessandria Italy. FOUR HUNDRED houses were wrecked and many persons killed and injured by an explosion of a powder magazine at Canton, China. THE New York, Lake Erie & Western railroad has gone into the hands of receivers. IN a wreck on the Ohio Valley road near Morganfield, Ky., Robert Vandorn, engineer; Frank Threlkeg, fireman, and Marion Davis, head brakeman, were killed.