People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1893 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. DOMESTIC. There were 1,894 arrests for different offenses at Jackson park during the world’s fair, as follows; Smoking, 24; disorderly conduct 709; drunkenness, 156; pocket-picking, 162; jumping the fence, 382; theft, 240; and miscellaneous, 371 . - Six men were killed by the cars at Sedalia, Mo. Francis H. Weeks, the New York lawyer who plead guilty to the embezzlement of over a million dollars from various estates intrusted to his care, was sent to prison for ten years. Street traffic was seriously interfered with in Chicago by a dense fog and heavy smoke and artificial light had to be used at noon. Nearly 1,500,000 persons paid to ride in the Ferris wheel during the world’s fair. It earned 3150,000 for stockholders above" all debts. A negrq named Bob Kennedy was captured at Gaffney, 8. C., by a mob and hanged. His crime was attempted assault John 8. Johnson again broke the world’s bicycle record at Independence, la., going his mile, dying start, in 1:55 3-5. In a rear-end collision on the Rock Island road at Eggleston, a Chicago auburb, four persons were killed and thirty-three were injured, some fatally. Louis Floyd, who, with his brother Frank, robbed the Bank of Minneapolis at Minneapolis, Minn., of 390,000, was arrested in New York. At Moberly, Ma, the Wabash “can-non-ball” train was wrecked and Fireman Malone was killed and Engineer Robinson fatally hurt Mrs. Martin O’Neill, of Buffalo, N., Y., died of heart disease while sitting "between her two children in the ladies’ room of the Union depot in Chicago. In a railway wreck at Hutto, Tex, fire broke out in the mail car and 2,000 letters were burned. Peter Barker, once a wealthy man, was arrested at Kansas City for snatching women’s pocketbooks on crowded streets. Two standing starts world bicycle records, the two-thirds and full mile, were broken by Johnson at Independence, la., he going the mile in 1:58 1-5 and the two-thirds in 1:21. It was announced that Secretary Carlisle had perfected plans to stop the making of any more silver dollars. Henry Bogue, a negro who took part in the murder of N. J. Duncan at Lake City Junction, Fla., was shot to death by a mob. Stephen, Michael and Mary L. Toole, Bged respectively 31, 21 and 30, were under arrest in Boston charged with killing their mother and sister with poison. J. J. Arnold, ex-county treasurer of Niagara county, and ex-cashier of the Merchants’ bank, was in jail at Lockport, N. Y., charged with embezzling 3100,000. Joseph Funk and Mrs. Ada Brown were run down by a freight train and killed near St Joseph, Mo. Carter H. Harrison’s will was filed In the probate court in Chicago by a son. The estate is estimated at 3960,000. The drop of the treasury balance in Washington below 3100,000,000 was interesting the officials of that department The barns of the North Side Street Car company in Chicago were destroyed by fire, the loss being 3100,000. Flying Jib paced a mile in 2:06% and Directum trotted a mile in 2:08 at the Hartford (Conn.) track. Four lives were lost by a collision on the Hocking Valley road near Fostoria, O.

Congressman Oates, of Alabama, calls Editor Hawkins, of St Louis, hard names in a letter and wants to fight John Dossett, of Guthrie, O. T., Is the first man ever sentenced to be hanged in Oklahoma. At the seventy-fifth annual session in Minneapolis, Minn., of the general missionary committee of the Methodist Episcopal church it was decided to spend $150,000 for mission work the ensuing year. Annoyed by a persistent collector at Duluth, Minn., Sam Johnson seized him and painted him a fiery red. Two moee victims of the Rock Island wreck at Eggleston, a Chicago suburb, have died, making a total of six. There were 361 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 10th, against 858 the week previous and 210 in the corresponding time in 1892. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 10th aggregated <982,853,717, against $1,050,712,065 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1892, was 20.8. Louis T. Menage, the absconding president of the Northwestern Guaranty Loan company at Minneapolis, is said to have stolen $1,650,800. John D. Rockefeller made his fourth gift to the university of Chicago. Its amount is $500,000. With his previous donations this makes Mr. Rockefeller’s gifts to the university $3,250,<OO. It was reported that settlers west of the Montezuma valley in Colorado had • collision with the Navajo Indians, killing four of them. Secretary of State Gresham made public a state paper addressed to President Cleveland informing aim that the overthrowal of Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii was brought about by such an abuse of the authority of the United States, and by such “force and fraud,” that nothing short of a restoration of the qneen to her throne would satisfy j the demand* of justice. !

The World’s Columbian exposition received at the gates up to November 1 310,576,208. There is now in the treasury 32,153,128, not including souvenir coins. The situation of the miners in Iron county, Wis., was said to be deplorable, and they had petitioned to Gov. Peck. Illinois ranks second in postal receipts and third in presidential post offices, according to the annual report. Mureo Murdoc, proprietor of the Egyptian village at the world’s fair, was robbed of $5,000 at Brooklyn, N. Y. Miller Davis, convicted of murdering Sheriff Dollerhide near Chapel Hill, October 23, was hanged at Center Point, Ark. The Middletown (O.) Paper company assigned with liabilities of about 3200,000. The home of Louis Long at Stanchfield, Minn., was burned, and his wife and one child perished in the flames. County Treasurer Cashman, of Greeley Center, Neb., was said to be short in county funds between 320,000 and 325,000. Senator S. Parker, of Toledo, 0., was found dead at his home with his heart broken, literally as well as figuratively broken, for the organ was rent in twain. Grief over a son’s misdeeds was the cause. The price of admission to the world’s fair grounds has been reduced to twen-ty-five cents. Five masked men held up an Illinois Central train near Bardwell, Ky., and robbed the express car of some 37,000. At Riverton, Ala, Mrs. Davis and her daughter were killed by a masked robber, who was then shot by a son. B. Perry Collins, of Washington, and J. Salmon, of New York, were asphyxiated in a St Louis hotel. The Honduras government has apologized for firing on the American flag and Uncle Sam is satisfied therewith. E. P. Bernard, aged 80, of Yates Center, Kan., tired of life, killed his wife, daughter and himself. Foreign commissioners to the world’s fair united in giving a banquet in Chicago to Director General Davis, for whom all had words of praise. Warren F. Putnam, president of the National erranite bank of Exeter, N. H., was arrested on the charge of embezzling 330,000. Representatives of Corbett and Mitchell have agreed to their fighting at Jacksonville, Fla., January 4, 1894. At Middletown. 0., the Gunekel Banking company assigned with liabili-. ties of 3200,000. The entire rolling mill plant of the Whittaker Iron and Steel company at Wheeling, W. Va., was destroyed by fire, the loss being 3100,000. Pansy McGregor, in the 2:25 trot at Holton, Kan., broke the yearling record, making the distance in 2:25%. The wife of Adam Bright, a farmer near Troy, 0., who was beaten out of $4,500 by gold brick swindlers, died from the shock produced by the lass. The chief of the Osage nation in Oklahoma issued an edict ordering all negroes to leave the reservation in thirty days. At Utica, 111., the Fire Brick company plant was destroyed by fire, the loss being 3200,000. Frank Knox, aged over 100 years, an ex-slave who had been a barber in Liberty, Ind., for a great many years, was found dead in bed.

The Academy of Music and other property was burned at Fort Wayne, Ind., the total loss being 3100,000. The fury of a Bardstown (Ky.) mob ended in blowing up the home of Phil Evans, a colored criminal, killing his mother, wife and daughter. James E. White, general superintendent of the railway mail service, in his annual report says there were handled during the year 10,236,314,915 pieces of mail matter. This is an increase over 1888 of 49.68 per cent. Amused at the remark of a young man, Miss Bertha Pruett, of Philadelphia, laughed until seized with a fatal hemorrhage. The visible supply of grain in the United States on the 13th was: Wheat, 74,067,000 bushels; corn, 8,042,000 bushels; oats, 4,747,000 bushels: rye, 567,000 bushels; barley, 3,208,000 bushels. Van Roberts, living near Rush Hill, Ma, has fallen heir to a 3600,000 fortune left to him by John Bennett, who died at Las Vegas, N. M. Twenty years ago Roberts saved Bennett from drowning near Decatur, 111. An epidemic of influenza prevails in Cleveland, O. A displaced manhole cover wrecked a crowded Milwaukee avenue grip-car in Chicago and fourteen persons were injured. For the ten months ended October 31 last the reduction in the value of exports of breadstuffs and provisions, compared with the same period in 1892, was respectively $42,487,957 and 321,457,493.

Ambrose and Joseph Smith were killed near Mount Pincon, Ala., while resisting arrest on the charge of trespassing. As the result of a quarrel Herman Schank, of Milwaukee, shot and killed his wife Lizzie and then killed himself. Mrs. Lydia Youngs died at her home at Stillman Valley, IIL, aged 93. She had resided on the same farm fiftyfive years and never saw a train of cars. John Connors, for seven years custodian of stolen property for the police department of Chicago and with an office in the city hall, is a self-confessed embezzler of the funds intrusted to his charge. Several lives were believed to have been lost in a conflagration in Memphis, Tenn., which caused $500,000 damages. Three 1 men attempted to hold up a train near Lincoln, 111 They were driven off after shooting Brakeman Trott. Henry Boggs, a negro charged with murder at Lake City, Fla, was captured by a mob, his eyes gouged out and pieces of flesh cut from his body, after which he was shot to death. The new United States cruiser Columbia arrived in Boston harbor from Delaware breakwater, her run at sea f>eing the quickest ever made by a war vessel in this country, beating the New York’s time over two hours.

Justice Blatchfobd’s memory was honored by the supreme eonrt in Washington. Justice Fuller and Attorney General Olney pronounced eulogies PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. New Jersey's redistricting law of 1891 was declared unconstitutional. Legislators shall be chosen by counties, it is held. Francis Parkman, the eminent historian, died from peritonitis at Jamaica Plain. Mass. He was 70 years old. Further returns from the election in Nebraska show that the entire republican ticket was elected. In Kansas the republicans were also successful. Prof. Herman August Hagen, o Harvard college, one of the greatest scientists in the world, died in Boston, aged 76 years. Maj. William Lawbence Poole, of New Orleans, the oldest editor in the United States, died at the age of 90. His journalistic career began in 1823. Judge Richard Parker, of Winchester, Va., died in the 83d year of bis age. He was noted for having presided at the trial of John Brown and his men at Charleston. Charles H. Bell, ex-governor and ex-United States senator of New Hampshire, and a historian and author of reputation, died at Exeter, aged 70. Prof. William L. Shoup, who had a national reputation as an author of text books, died at Dubuque, la. Dr. David Judkins, chief of Lincoln’s medical staff during the war, died at Cincinnati. He was 77 years old. Mrs. Orville H. Platt, wife of the Connecticut senator, died in Washington from paralysis, aged 63 years. FOREIGN. During a performance at the Lyceum theater in Barcelona, Spain, two bombs were thrown from the gallery by anarchists and one of them exploded, killing twenty-three persona An immense number were also injured, both by the explosion and by the panic which followed and, several more would die. Admiral Mello, leader of the Brazilian rebels, resumed the bombardment of Rio. Further advices say that of the twenty-eight persons on the steamer John Frazer, burned an Lake Nipissing, Canada, only seven were saved. Annie Pixley, the famous actress, died in London of brain fever. She was a native of Brooklyn, N. Y., and wife of Robert Fulford. A workman named Metzgar and an innkeeper named Übeluem were executed at Berlin for the murder and robbery of Herr Grunbaum, a cattle dealer.

Fifteen cities near central Cuba have declared against Spanish rule and are in open rebellion against the government. An explosion of ether at Breslitovsk. a town of Russian Poland, killed twenty persons. Mrs. J. Roosevelt, wife of the secretary of the United States embassy and daughter of the late William Astor, died in London. Eugene Turpin, the discoverer of melinite, has invented a machine to combat the effects of tornadoes and cyclones. Ben Hyams, a well-known English bookmaker, was dragged at a Liverpool hotel and robbed of SIO,OOO. Paris has decided to hold a world’s fair in 1900. Floods in the southwestern portion of Japan caused the death of 1,557 persons, the destruction of 3,908 houses and the wrecking of 577 vessels. Rev. "Dr. Morrison, founder of the Scotch Evangelical church; died in Glasgow. LATER. The schoolhouse at Coopersville. N. Y., was destroyed by fire, and Miss May Porter, the teacher, and Willard Johnson, a little boy were burned to death. The Coal and Iron bank, the last bank in Middleboro, Ky., closed its doors. Champion James J. Corrett and “Charley” Mitchell have agreed to fight before the Duval Athletic club in Jacksonville, Fla., January 25. The business portion of the town of Portland, Ark., was wiped out by fire. W. A. Beane, proprietor and editor of the Goshen (Ind.) Democrat, dropped dead on the street from heart disease while on his way to his office. With all but two counties official the majority for Gov. McKinley, of Ohio, stands at 81,187. A hurricane blew over the Frischeflaff, an extensive bay in East Prussia, and many fishing boats were lost and eighteen persons were drowned. Weiss & Goldstein, of Greenville, Miss., shoe dealers, failed for 3300,000,

Joe Kirksey, Will "Weiss and Bob McKinney were killed by an explosion in a lumber mill near Beaumont, Tex., and three other men were fatally injured. By guessing within sixty-nine of the total attendance at the world’s fair F. M. Cowan, of Flushing, 0., won a gold-plated gun. Masked men took D. T. Nelson, a negro murderer, from the Varner (Ark.) jail, riddled him with bullets and burned his body. The women white caps at Osceola, Neb., who flogged several girls three weeks ago, were fined for unlawful assembly. In an unofficial trial off Boston the new cruiser Columbia made the unprecedented speed of 22.87 knots an hour. Herman and Otto Habeck, of Wein, Wis.. admit that they killed their drunken father at the instance of their mother. The Thurber- Whyland company, wholesale grocers in New York city, failed for SBOO,OOO. John Johnson (colored) was electrocuted at Auburn, N. Y., for the unprovoked murder of two fellow convicts. John Palmer, the inventor of the baggage check, died at Union City, Mich., aged 85 years. The “Little Red House” at Lenox, Mass., in which Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote “Tanglewood Tales, “The House of Seven Gatles,” and other stories, is to be restored. It was destroyed by fire some time ago. /