People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1893 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. DOMESTIC. The plapt of the Page flouring mills at Fergus Falls, Minn., was destroyed by fire, the loss being 1100,000. Amelia. Darby was sentenced at Ottumwa, la., to fifteen years’ hard labor for participation in the Thomas Lloyd murder. Edward Birke, guilty of several forgeries at St. Joseph, Mo., swallowed strychnine and died in his mother's arms. Mormons of the United States were arranging for the purchase of 3,000,000 acres of land in Chihuahua, Mexico. A whole fanaly named Johnson from Pike county, Mo., perished in a storm in the Class mountains near Enid, O. T. Practically all of the boom town of Kanawha, W. Va., is to be sold for taxes. Derberger and Bliss lowered the bicycle records for 100 yards at Nashville, Tenn. —flying start, 0:05; standing start, 0:08 4-5. The Bostons were formally declared the baseball champions by the league magnates, who were, in secret session in New York. V. Rochon, of Norway, Mich., was called away on a false telegram and his safe robbed of <5,700 in his absence. Curt Davidson killed Miss Birdie Baugh near Alliance, 0., and cut his own throat. He was alive and lynching was threatened. A balance of trade of <35,000,000 in favor of the United States is shown by the October report. A fire at Chanute, Kan., destroyed ten brick business houses, together with their contents. Loss, <IOO,OOO. The business portion of Brooklyn, Wis., was destroyed by fire. In a dispute over land at Greenville, N. C., Abner Slaughter and Dore Smith were shot and killed. The National Plate Glass company at Pittsburgh, Pa., with a capital of <10,000,000 and one of the most formidable trusts in the country, has gone to pieces.

At Deadwood, S. D., Joseph Thas killed his wife, who had left him, and two other persons, and then took his own life. Mayor Swift has been aroused by the carnival of crime in Chicago and says the standard of the police department must be raised. Secretary Gresham received advices from Minister Willis that the Hawaiian government would resist its overthrow. It is believed the history of the world’s fair will make twenty-five volumes. By the shutting down of the iron mines in the Gogebic range in Michigan 20,000 persons have been reduced to starvation. The main buildings on the world’s fair grounds will be allowed to stand next year. No admission will be charged to the park. Four brothers named Selph were arrested for wrecking trains near Houston, Tex. They were tracked by bloodhounds. Vina Soloman, an insane domestic who wanted to kill Rev. P. S. Henson, pastor of the First Baptist church in Chicago, was arrested after an exciting chase. The governor of Florida says the Corbett-Mitchell prizefight cannot take place in that state. Thomas Driver was burned to death and three other passengers fatally injured in an accident on the East Alabama road. The marriage of Lillian Russell, the actress, to Edward Solamon has been annulled in New York. A big gold strike was reported in Dona Anna county, N. M. Mrs. Annie Johnson (colored), 103 years old, was fatally burned at her home in Pittsburgh, Pa., her clothing taking fire. At Brenham, Tex., Ephriam Sledge, on a wager, drank a quart of whisky and a schooner of beer. An inquest followed.

Tboops have been ordered to the Mexican border to protect the property and lives of Americans from the revolutionists. The Edgewood female seminary, a Catholic school near Madison, Wis., was burned, and Maggie Stack and Margie Rice were suffocated in bed. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the weekended on the 17th aggregated 81,016,417,201, against 1082,858,717 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week .in 1802, was 9.9. Fibe destroyed the Chesapeake, Ohio & Southwestern freight depot at ■Owensboro, Ky., the loss being 8150,000. The Fidelity storage warehouse in Chicago was burned by a supposed incendiary fire, the loss being 8160,000. I Thebe were 824 business failures in United States in the seven days :fnded on the 17th, against 361 the week previous and 205 in the corresponding time in 1892. Don Cablos Diaz, consul for Spain in Baltimore, committed suicide by jumping from the fourth-story window of nis residence. William Stombaugh, of Decatur, Mich., who has married three wives in four years, was sentenced to seven jrears in the Jackson prison. Extba tariff on the Keystone limited train between New York and Chicago has been reduced from 13 to 82. Twelve illicit stills in Randolph county, Ala., and two moonshiners were captured by United States marshals after a fight in which one man was killed and two fatally injured. The annual report of Gov. William C. Renfrow, of Oklahoma, estimates the total population of the territory at 151,804, and that of the Cherokee strip at 100.000. The entire business portion of Grand Jiidge, IIL, was destroyed by fire.

The chemical works at Newark, N. J., failed for <318,000. The test of electricity as a motive power for canal boats was made at Brighton, N. Y.’, and proved a success. The post office and general store at Labin, Wis., was burned, including the mails. Out of 597 bank suspensions within ten months 26 per cent were national 37 per cent state and 32 per cent private banks. Fifty per cent of suspended national banks have reopened, 26 per cent of the state and 17 per cent of the private banks. Alfred McDonald (colored), 21 years old, was hanged at Huntsville. Tex., for the murder of his parents. Owing to the increase of crime in Chicago every person found in the streets tbetween 1 and 5 o’clock a. m. is to be stopped by officers in citizens* clothes. One man was mortally hurt and half a dozen seriously injured by an explosion of powder at Coalfield, la. Judge ‘Hardy, of Boston, decided in the case of Simon LeVy against Simon Miller that a man cannot lawfully marry his half niece in Massachusetts. The employes of the Lehigh Valley road went on a strike, efforts for adjustment of differences having been un-. successful, and all freight traffic was suspended. Live twin babies were found packed in a valise by a depot policeman at East St. Louis, 111. Harry C. Reeb, who disappeared from Columbus, 0., four years ago, has returned and will marry his divorced wife.

On her official trip near Boston the cruiser Columbia averaged 22.81 knots an hour, surprising all previous records. Reports from Duluth, Minn., say the output of iron thereabouts is 20 per cent, greater this than last year. A large number of guests enjoyed the thirty-eighth annual game dinner of Landlord Drake of the Pacific hotel iu Chicago. It was said in Chicago that by means of counterfeit tickets east-bound roads had been swindled out of <IOO,OOO. Sewed in the clothing of Mrs. John Knaefsey, whose body was being prepared for a pauper’s grave in Chicago, was found <1,460 in bills. W. O. Whittaker, his wife and young daughter were killed by a passenger train at Coal Valley, la. Two young men went over the Horseshoe rapids of Niagara falls. Further particulars of the recent flood in the Okayama district of Japan show that 644 persons were drowned, 3,207 houses washed away, 6,842 houses nearly or quite destroyed, 47,429 buildings partly wrecked and 7,519 acres of land more or less inundated. Official announcement was made at San Francisco that all Chinese were ready to register in compliance with the law. The four-story brick building of the Western Storage company at Kansas City was destroyed by fire, the loss being <500,000. On the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton road the United States Express office at Troy, 0., was robbed of <25,000. The Erie canal men say that the season now closing has been the most profitable during the last fourteen years. James Day, a farmer of Fountain Green, 111., has fallen heir to over <l,000,000 worth of property in the heart of Boston.

A gang of counterfeiters that had flooded St. Joseph, Mo., with excellent specimens of counterfeit half dollars and dollars were captured. The Knights of Labor annual meeting in Philadelphia ended in a row, during which Grand Master Powderly was accused of being a thief and a forger. The visible supply of grain in the United States on the 20th was: Wheat, 76,754,000 bushels; corn, 7,320,000 bushels; oats, 4,671,000 bushels: rye, 595,000 bushels; barley, 3,947,000 bushels. The National grange in session at Syracuse, N. ¥., adopted a resolution in favor of granting to women the same privileges at the ballot box as are granted to men. Adolph Ness er and Herman Bachel were killed by the cars near Tarentum, Pa. They were skilled glass decorators and leave large families. Charles Davis and Leonard Forsythe, aged 22 and 24 years respectively, rival lovers, fought a duel near Napoleon, 0., with swords and both were probably fatally injured. Jonesville, Ala., a thriving suburb of Birmingham, Ala., had an 8800,000 fire. Judge Bbown declared invalid the Indiana law regulating distribution and return of school funds. In a decision by the United States supreme court the term “high seas” is held to include the great lakes. Welcome H. Hathaway, who took 8100,000 from the Fall River (Mass.) banks by forged warehouse receipts and other methods, pleaded guilty. Deposits in Illinois banks have increased 88,000,000 since July 25, while loans have decreased 84,500,000. The East Tennessee Land company, with headquarters at Memphis, went into the hands of receivers with liabilities of 81,500,000. Two “soonebs” were hanged by a vigilance committee near Round Point, O. T., for driving settlers off their claims.

The Western Baseball league was organized at Indianapolis with eight clubs as follows: Cincinnati, Toledo, Kansas City, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Detroit, Sioux City and Grand Rapids. A tenement house at Lewiston, Me., was partially burned and Mrs. Albert Dubois and her two children were suffocated. Passenger traffic on railways is lighter than at a corresponding time for five years and the roads are economizing in train service. The Chicago & Grand Trunk's railroad repair shops and big storehouse in Chicago were burned, the loss being 8100,000. A fire at Keno, Mich., destroyed over 8200,000 worth of lumber belonging to William Peters, of Toledo,

In his annual report Mr. Drummond, chief of the secret service, says the Columbian half-dollar was counterfeited to a very great extent William Parrish, in jail at Dallas, Tex., for the murder of James Langdon, committed suicide by cutting his throat Three unknown Chinamen were killed by the cars near Salt Lake City. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. The complete election returns in lowa show Jrckson (rep.), received £07,159; Boies (dem.), 174,793; Josephs (pop.), 23,511; and Mitchell (pro.), 10,107. Jackson's plurality, 32,366. The house will stand: Republican, 79 to 21; and the senate republican 34 to 16. Alexander Anderson (colored) died at Racine, Wis., aged 100 years. John M. Washburne, treasurer of the Old Colony road for nearly halt a century, died at his home in Boston. James Lynes died the day after his wife at Columbia, Ma They lived together sixty years and were buried in one grave. The official returns give the vote in Ohio at the recent election as follows: McKinley (rep.), 433,336; Neal (dem.), 352,329; Mackin (pro ), 19586; Bracken (pop.), 15,259. McKinley’s plurality, 81,007. The official returns from the recent election in Utah show that the legislature is republican on joint ballot by six votes. Mrs. James Brands died at Montmorenci, Ind., aged 108 years. Miss Sallie McAlister (negress) died at Springfield, Ky. She weighed 695 pounds and for three years traveled as a museum freak.

FOREIGN. Sir Robert B. D. Morier, British ambassador to Russia, died at Montreux, Switzerland. He was 66 years of age. The population of Toronto, Ont., as fixed by the police census, is 188,914 —a gain of 22,000 over that of two years ago. A cigar box containing <60,000 was stolen from a clerk of the National bank in the City of Mexico. Robert Grant, United States consul to Desterro, was arrested by Brazilian revolutionists and imprisoned on a warship. The uprising in Mexico has assumed such serious proportions that unless speedily stamped out it will endanger President Diaz' government. Admiral Mello hoisted the imperial flag and declared for Count d’Eu's son as emperor of Brazil After four months’ suffering the coal miners in England decided to resume work at the old wages. During a terrific storm throughout the British islands over 800 persons were drowned, many vessels were wrecked and a large number of houses destroyed. Advices from Hawaii say that the queen had not been restored to her throne. Minister Willis had been received by the provisional government. By the wrecking of the steamer Fraser near Toronto, Ont, sixteen lives were lost Sixteen persons were killed and twenty injured by the explosion of the boiler of a silk mill at Czernowitz, Russia. 'The Nuri revolutionists in the state of Guerrera, Mexico, surrendered to Gen. Bravo, leader of the federal forces. For fishing in forbidden waters the dominion government seized the tug R. C. Ogles, owned by a Sandusky (O.) company. Two-thirds of the town of Kuchan, Persia, was destroyed by an earthquake aud many lives were lost.

LATER. Gen. Jeremiah McClain Rusk, excongressman, ex-governor of Wisconsin and ex-secretary of agriculture in the cabinet of President Harrison, died at his home near Viroqua, Wis., aged 63 years. The opera house and other buildings at Newberne, Tenn., were burned and several lives were lost. A freight train ran into an open switch at Van Buren, Ark., and killed J. W. Brown, Henry Swiil and William Spoon, lumbermen. Figures in the hands of mint officers in Washington indicate that the year’s gold production'will be 8145,000,000. A hotel near Beaver, Pa., was burned and James Hughes, John Kelley, J. P. Wilbur, Robert Stanley, Barney Wilkes, J. J. Wrenn and Daniel Wrenn perished in the flames. Forty persons who lost their lives in the great English storm have been picked up at Calais. Fred Gustaveson was taken from the officers of the law in a justice’s courtroom at Ottumwa, la., by a mob and hanged from the balustrade just outside the door. He assaulted a little girl 4 years old, daughter of Jonas Saxe. Gov. Peck issued a proclamation to the people of Wisconsin calling for help for starving Gogebic miners. St. Paul (Minn.) aidermen passed an anti-poolroom ordinance w hich also operates against progressive euchre games. Secretary Hayes, of the Knights of Labor, says he will defeat Master Workman Powderly or wreck the order. Watts’ opera house, odd fellows’ hall, six stores and the masonic temple burned at Starkville, Miss., the loss being 8100,000. A fire at Springfield, Mass., among business blocks caused a loss of 8800,000.

Augustus Bomburger pleaded guilty at Cando, N. D., of murdering Mr. and Mrs. Kreider and their four children. The Joseph Turner & Sons Worsted Manufacturing company, one of the largest concerns of the kind in the country, made an assignment at Cleveland, 0., with liabilities of 8400,000. Over 10,000 persons in the mining region in Michigan were said to be in a destitute condition. Minister Thurston, of Hawaii, issued a reply to the report of Mr. Blount in which he says that Blount’s Investigation was one-sided and secret and that the United States troops in no way aided in the overthrow of the queen.