People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1893 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. DOMESTIC. ON August 12 Nancy Hanks will be driven against time over the Mystic track in Boston to see if she can beat her record of 2:04, which she made last September. THE branch house at Kansas City, Mo., of the Whitman & Barnes Manufacturing company of Akron, O., was destroyed by fire, the loss being $135,000. THE first general meeting of women lawyers ever held convened in Chicago with delegates present from every section of the United States. AT the races in Buffalo, N. Y., Hulda went a mile in 2:08½, the fastest ever made by a 5-year-old, and Hal Pointer paced three heats in 2:07¼, 2:06½ and [illegible]:06. IN a jealous rage Douglas Davis fatally stabbed his wife at Greenville, Ill., and cut his own throat, dying instantly THE fire which had burned for a week in Burlington county, N. J., exhausted itself. The damage to buildings was $150,000; to timber, $1,300,000, and to the crop of cranberries, $75,000. FRANK VAN LOON was hanged at Columbus, O., for the murder of William Vandermark during an attempt to rob a bank at Columbus Grove August 8, 1891. STATISTICS show that in fifty-seven trades in New York city there are 56,000 men out of work. AT Elberton, W. Va,, two local terrors started a fight which became so general and serious that the malitia was called out to stop it. FELIX POOLE, a notorious character, was lynched by a mob near Owensboro, Ky., for an assault on Miss York, aged 13. FOUR persons were killed and twenty-ty-five others were seriously injured by the falling of the second balcony of the yacht club’s house at Chelsea, Mass. INSURANCE rates in Iowa have been raised 10 per cent and merchants have been notified that they must meet the increase. ALL the silver dollars in the government treasury which are accessible have been exhausted, owing to the demand for money of small denomination. A BOILER explosion in a sawmill at Camp Creek, O., killed two brothers named Wolfe and John Alexandria. MICHAEL FORSHAM left Watertown, N. Y., to walk to Los Angeles, Cal. He expects to accomplish the feat in 185 days.

THE amount of gold and silver coin and certificates, United States notes and national bank notes in circulation August 1 was $1,611,099,117. an increase during the month of July of $17,237,606. The increase during the last twelve months was in round figures $9,000,000. IT was learned in New York that extensive frauds had been perpetrated on the railroad companies by the issue of bogus world’s fair excursion tickets. DURING the past three months the mines of California have turned out $3,800,000 in fine gold. THE failures were reported of the Commercial bank at Stevens Point, Wis., the National German-American bank at St. Paul, Minn., and the banking house of Lazarus Silverman in Chicago. AT the leading clearing houses in the United States the exchanges during the week ended on the 4th aggregated $973,880,753, against $887,988,509 the previous week. The decrease as compared with the corresponding week of 1892 was 9.7. THEODORE THOMAS has tendered his resignation as director of music of the World’s Columbian exposition. THERE were 436 business failures reported in the United States during the seven days ended on the 4th. In the week preceding there were 386, and during the corresponding time in 1892 the number was 160. BOBBY TAYLOR, fighting under the sobriquet of the “Sailor Kid,” was killed in a prize fight at Denver by William Robinson. SIXTY persons, including the sheriff and other officers, have been indicted at Memphis, Tenn., for lynching and cremating the negro Lee Walker. PENNSYLVANIA iron millers have instructed their superintendents to employ none but Americans hereafter. JUAN BURGER, the 13-year-old son of Edgar Burger, of South Kokomo, Ind., died from the direct effects of cigarette smoking. THE Equitable Accident Insurance company of Denver was placed in the hands of a receiver. Its capital was $250,000. AT Keshuqua, Pa., a sawmill, board-ing-house and several tenements in a lumber camp were destroyed by fire. Loss, $100,000. JOSEPH H. HOWELL, who murdered Mrs. Nancy Hall and seven children January 19, 1892, was hanged at Trenton, Mo. THE steam yacht Rachel sank in the lake at Lake George, N. Y., with twenty-nine passengers, nine of whom were drowned. GOV. TILLMAN, of South Carolina, is angry at the treatment his liquor constables has received and says arms will be resorted to if necessary. THE James H. Walker company, one of the biggest dry goods concerns in Chicago, doing an immense wholesale and retail business, failed for $2,400,000. WALTER E. SHAW was hanged at Houston, Tex., for the murder of his mother and aunt March 31, 1892. BROMLEY'S worsted goods mills at Philadelphia have closed, throwing 3,000 persons out of employment. N. L. CORT & CO., of Near York, importers of tin, tin plate and other metals, failed for $350,000. IN the vicinity of Sharptown, Ind., a cloudburst did immense damage to

BANK failures were announced as follows: First national at Hammond, Ind., Citizens’ national at Muncie, Ind., First national at Platteville, Wis., State bank of Providence, R. I., Exchange at Colby, Wis., Lebanon (Pa.) Trust and safe deposit bank, and the First national, National citizens and Mankato national at Mankato, Minn. AFTER a separation of seventy years Robert Duncan, of Indianapolis, and Mrs. Annie Caulkins, of Lafayette, Ind., discovered that they were brother and sister. Mrs. Caulkins is 85 years old and Mr. Duncan is 83. THE percentages of the baseball clubs in the National league for the week ended on the 5th were as follows: Boston, .674; Philadelphia, .632; Pittsburgh, .595; Cleveland, .590; New York, .488; Brooklyn, .488; St. Louis, .471; Cincinnati, .471; Baltimore, .440; Chicago, .417; Washington, .369; Louisville, .351. CAPT. J. W. ALLEN, editor of the Interstate News at Texarkana, Tex., was killed by John J. King, county judge of Bowie county. An article in the News reflecting on King was the cause. A DISPUTE on the Smith farm near Newark, O., about the division of certain wheat, resulted in the killing of one man and the wounding of three others. A BIG FOUR freight train fell through a bridge over a river a distance of 63 feet into the water below near Danville, Ill., killing Brakeman Stone and damaging property to the extent of $100,000. KNIGHT, LEONARD & CO., printers and publisher in Chicago, made an assignment with heavy liabilities. A. K. WILLIAMS was killed and Sheriff Patterson fatally wounded at McCrary, Ark., by a negro who was being taken to jail. ABOUT 700,000 spindles were stopped in Fall River (Mass.) factories for an indefinite period, throwing 7,000 persons out of work. UNDER the ruling of the first comptroller of the treasury congressmen are not entitled to mileage for attendance on the extra session. A WAGON was struck by a train at Dellwood, Minn., and Mrs. J. P. Newstrum, Mrs. E. P. Clouse and E. W. Newstrum were killed. THE reservoir of the Portland Water company at Portland, Me., burst, letting loose its 20,000,000 gallons of water, wrecking two houses and drowning the wife and two children of Dennis M. Conley and James Moseley. A TRAIN on the Lake Shore road jumped the track near Fremont, O., and four persons were killed and ten others were injured, one fatally. THE following bank failures were reported: Bank of St. James at St. James, Minn., State bank at Mapleton, Minn., the Exchange national at Wheeling, W. Va.. and the Farmers’ and Traders’ bank at Leon, the Garden Grove bank at Garden Grove and the Citizens’ bank at David City, all in Iowa and operated by A. B. Stearns and L. P. Sigler. A RICH gold strike was made near Natchez, Wash. JAMES L. WRIGHT, one of the founders of the Knights of Labor, died at his home in Philadelphia, aged 76 years. A TORNADO at Philadelphia unroofed a score of dwellings and factories, causing a loss of $100,000.

The grand jury failed to indict anybody for the blame in the cold-storage building fire on the world’s fair grounds. The suspended Hutchinson (Kan.) National bank has resumed. The Bank of North Branch, Minn.; the National bank of Sturgis, Mich., and the Greene county bank of Springfield, Mo., closed their doors. Stockholders of the Milwaukee national bank have voted to resume. The capital stock will be increased $300,000 Publication of a private letter of Col. S. H. Boyd, minister to Siam, in which he reflected on Secretary Gresham, is said to have led to his resignation. An international bicycle tournament commenced in Chicago with wheelmen present from many countries. Snowdrifts a foot deep were found along the line of the Haverhill & Amesbury road on the hillsides of Amcsbury, M ass. The visible supply of grain in the United States on the 7th was: Wheat, 59,425,000 bushels; corn, 6,893,000 busihels; oats, 1,661,000 bushels; rye, 330,000 .bushels; barley, 360,000 bushels. George Dixon, the colored featherweight champion, knocked out Eddie Pierce in three rounds before the Coney Island club.

Levi Butler, cashier of the bank of C. M. Wright & Co. at Altamont, 111., absconded with $41,000 and the bank suspended. Sixteen nonunion boilermakers were attacked in a St. Louis hotel bv twen-ty-five unionists. Knives and pistols were used and a score were injured. Three .masked men entered a general store at Farmington, N. M., ordered hands up and secured $1,900 in money and jewelry, A proposition to keep open the World’s Columbian exposition throughout the Summer of 1894 will be presented to congress at the extra session. Bands of Utes were roaming through the western part of Colorado, and the settlers had asked protection of the governor. Residents of Marion county, Miss., celebrated the sentencing of William Purvis, a noted desperado, to hang by firing 100 guns. At Lancaster, Pa., hundreds of acres of tobacco were ruined by haiL Of the white caps who attacked the Conrads near Corydon, Ind., five are dead and five others were missing. The home of the brothers was burned to the ground. The factory of the Pacific nail works at Oakland, Cal., was burned, the loss being $258,000. Charles McCormick fatally shot Janette Nell at Jackson, Mich., because she refused to marry him, and then killed himself. Judge Lochben, pension commissioner. has extended until October 30, 1893, the period within which pensioners whose pensions have been suspended may make proof of their right to receive them.

William Ploughfield, a farmer, was stabbed to death and his brother John fatally wounded by two tramps at Birdsboro, Pa. Fire in the heart of the retail center of Louisville, Ky., caused a loss of $150,000. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. The Virginia populists in convention at Lynchbilrg nominated Edmund R. Cooke, a farmer of Cumberland county, for governor; J. Brad Beverly, of Faquier, for lieutenant governor, and W. S. Gravely, of Henry, for attorney general. Simon O’Donnell, for thirty years a member of the Chicago police force, died at the age of 59 years. Sarah T. Bolton, the “Hoosiei poetess,” died at her home in Indianapolis, aged 82 years. Among the most popular of her songs was “Paddle Your Own Canoe” and “Union Forever.” Mbs. Nellie Grant Sabtobib, with her three children, arrived at New York from England. Out of the forty-four states in the union only thirteen will hold state elections this year—lowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Virginia and Wisconsin, all November 7. lowa, Massachusetts, Ohio, Wisconsin and Virginia alone will elect full tickets. Warben Bryant, for twenty-nine years president of the Buffalo (N. Y.) savings bank, died at the age of 82 years. Both houses of the Fifty-third con gress met in extra session in Washing ton. In the senate the vice president presided, and in the house Charles F. Crisp, of Georgia, was elected speaker. No business was transacted by either house during the day. Alfred Butler Storey, for seven years the editor of Harper’s Young People, died in New York, aged 35 years.

FOREIGN. In Russia there have been 6.666 deaths from cholera in Mecca and 2,318 in Jedda since the epidemic broke out two months ago. There have been 601 deaths from the scourge in Marseilles, France, since the middle of May. Nearly one-third of the town of Port Louis, the capital of the Island of Mauritius, was destroyed by fire, the loss being over 1,000,000 rupees. At the town of Birsk, in Russia, 180 houses were burned and seven persons were killed and a large number were injured. An explosion on the German armorclad steamer Baden at Kiel killed nine seamen and seventeen persons were wounded. Aurello Amoro and Jesus Sugo, prominent young men of San Juan Batista, Mex., fought a duel with pistols on the principal street and both were killed. Flames in a lumber yard in Liverpool causee a loss of $900,000. A large crowd of men went to the home of William and Ed Conrad in Boone township, Ind., for the purpose of lynching the two boys, who were suspected of killing their father last winter. The young Conrads opened fire on the crowd and killed Edward Houston, Isaac Howe, John Timberlake and William Wiseman, all fanners. William May, also a farmer, was fatally injured. In an exciting game the Shamrocks, of Montreal, lacrosse champions of the world, were beaten by the Torontos. A boat in which were twenty-eight pleasure seekers was upset in Swansea bay, Wales, and twenty-two were drowned.

LATER. In the United States senate on the Bth a resolution was introduced to make August 23 the time for taking the final vote on the suspension of silver purchases but no action was taken. The president’s message recommending prompt repeal of the Sherman silver law was read. Several bills were introduced to regulate the finances. In the house the message of the president was read. The Belknap-Richardson contest over a seat in the house from the Fifth district of Michigan resulted in favor of Richardson, the democrat. Thousands of Austrians, Italians and Poles were leaving Colorado for their native countries. In a fit of delirium John Finn attempted to kill his four children at St. Louis and then cut his own throat. Three of the little ones were fatally injured. A fire destroyed all but two stores and a few houses at Snow Hill, Md., the loss being 8300,000. The Cadwallader flouring mill at Fostoria, 0., was blown up by a boiler explosion and G. Davis, secretary of the mill, and F. C. Myers, bookkeeper, were killed.

T. H. Hotchkiss & Co., members of the New York stock exchange, failed for 8800,000. Robert H. Coleman, the Lebanon (Pa.) iron king, who was worth $lO,000,000 two years ago, made a general assignment, with liabilities of $5,000,000 and assets of $10,000,000. A. D. Baker, owner of the wagon works at Mishawaka, Ind., failed for $130,000. An explosion destroyed two buildings of the Phcenix Powder company at Pittsburg, 111., and killed Luther Erde, John Elliott, B. Hickman and Charles M alley. The Port Pitt tanneries and the warehouses of the Consolidated Wire company at Rankin, 0., were burned, the loss being $135,000. Charles G. Otis, of passenger elevator fame, died at his residence in Brooklyn, N. Y. Citizens of Glendive, Mont., gave a coat of tar to a white man and a garment of alabastine to his colored bride and ordered them out of town. All the stables of the new driving park at Connersville, Ind., were burned and seven valuable horses were cremated. The bank of Wellsbury, Pa., owned by fciarauel George, the Madison square bank in New York and the Barron county bank at Bice Lake, Wis., closed their doors.