People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1894 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. DOMESTIC. The New York and New England railroad was placed in the bands of a receiver. Joseph and Henry Manly and George Cronk died at Plattsburg, N. Y.. from privations experienced in trying to •walk on the ice from Saranac Lake to Tupper Lake To test the Florida law warrants were to be secured for the arrest of Pugilists Corbett ard Mitchell. Prizes valued at 820,000 were won by Wheelman Zimmerman during the year. Johnston’s winnings were 513,000. Three fires in New York destroyed property worth 5475,000 and cost the life of August Miller, a fireman. Burglars looted five stations on the line of the Pennsylvania's New York division, securing money and tickets. A whale 75 feet in length was killed near South Hampton, N. Y. At Linnox, S. D., Mel Baldwin shot his mother-in-law. Mrs. William Vants, and then killed himself. At Providence, R. 1., the new Moulton block was burned, the loss being <200,000. One man perished. The San Francisco Bridge company at San Francisco failed for 5238,000. The United States Cordage company was organized at Trenton, N. J., with a capital of 534,000,000. John Puening, treasurer of Elmwood, a suburb of Cincinnati, fled with the entire funds of the town, 55,000. A deficit of nearly 53,000,000 was reported in the finances of Chicago. Behind closed doors the United States senate committee on foreign relations began its investigations into the Hawaiian imbroglio. Samuel Hellner, of Philadelphia, a dealer in anthracite coal, made an assignment with liabilities of $500,000. William Beyers fatally shot his mother at her home in Booneville, Ind., because she asked him to stop drinking liquor.

W. H. Shackelford & Co., the largest retail dry goods firm in Owensboro. Ky., made an assignment. Ten eloping couples from as many points in Kentucky arrived in Jeffersonville, Ind., in one day and were married. Gov. Lewelling, of Kansas, has removed Mrs. 'Mary E. Lease from the presidency of the state board of charities. After oa residence of twenty-five years the Louisiana State Lottery company has bought an island at Honduras and will operate a second Monte Carlo. Charles Mitchell and James J. Corbett were arrested at Jacksonville, Fla., to test the law in the state in reference to glove contests. The Cass county bank of Atlantic, la., closed its doors. Fire swept away an entire block of buildings in Hillsboro, Tex., the loss being $275,000. During the year 1893 the mileage of new railway track in the United States was 2,630, being less than for any year since 1878.

By the explosion of a boiler in a sawmill near Peru, Ind., George and B. McDonald were instantly killed. Mrs. Thomas Ranbdall, living at Duncan, Ky., was burned to death with her three children, together with the house. The village of Lawrenceville, 111., was practically wiped out by fire. J. Pierpont Morgan, representing the New York Central, bought the New York & Northern railroad for <1,600,000 at a foreclosure sale. The attorney general of Kansas says a soldier’s pension cannot be attached for debt The annual report of Jeremiah O’Rourke, supervising architect of the treasury, for the year ended September 30 last shows that during the year the expenditure for the erection of new federal buildings amounted io $4,126,159. Cheers greeted the verdict of the jury at Indianapolis which found Anna Wagner not guilty of poisoning the Koesters. The commissioner of patents purposes making public the names of rights that have lived their seventeen years. A mob lynched Mack Segars (colored) at Brantley, Ala., for an attempted assault upon a young lady. The distribution of American warships in foreign waters is said to be to encourage respect for the United States.

Chbis Evans, a notorious outlaw, escaped from jail at Fresno, CaL, aided by his wife and a waiter. Fifty sheriffs of Kansas met at Topeka and protested against the socalled “tramp circular” of Gov. Lewelling. Andrew Cabnegie offers to assist the needy in Pittsburgh, Pa., by giving 45,000 a working day for two months Thomas EL Taylor, a veteran of two wars, has been appointed chief of police of Louisville, Ky. Thß exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 29th ult aggregated 1778,806,129, against 11,953,184,972 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1892, was 26.8. lowa is overrun with tramps, who resort to force if a pitiful story does not bring food and shelter. Dr. J. C. Williams, of Denver, has fallen heir to $-2,000,000 from the Tromely estate in England. Regulations for the yearly calling tinder arms of men completing their twentieth year are to be enforced in Italy. Overton Price, late cashier of the wrecked Citizens’ national bank of Hillsboro. 0., died from nervous prostration resulting from mortification over the bank's failure.

Four miners named Faulkner, Lois, j Savage and Tuttle were drowned in : the Symonds-Kaye gold mine near Halifax, N. S, George A. Buckley, a crank, attempted to kill Gov. Renfrow, of Oklahoma, because he was not given an official position. Classifed returns show that in 1893 i there were in the United States 3,226 ■ manufacturing failures, with liabilities I of $164,707,449; 10,683 failures in legiti- I mate trade, with liabilities of $85,527,- I 896, and 302 other failures, including I brokers and speculators with liabilities of $30,662,735. The total duties collected at the New York custom house for 1893 amounted to $115,371,728.60 on merchandise valued at $218,350,234. In 1892 the total from duties was 8128,744,125.27 on merchandise valued at 8247,556,846. Failures and suspensions of all kinds in Louisville, Ky., for the year 1893 aggregate 140, resulting in actual liabilities of 34,027,353.54. At Broadway, Va., a negro named Edward Williams was publicly given 100 lashed. Charles Banks (colored) was executed at Warrensburg, Mo., for the murder of Isaac Palmer, anothernegro, on August 29, 1892. R. G. Dun's weekly review of trade says: “Starting with the largest trade ever known, mills crowded with work and all business stimulated by high hopes, the year 1893 has proved, in sudden shrinkage of trade, in commercial disasters and depression of industries, the worst for fifty years. The year closes with the prices of many products the lowest ever known, with millions of workers seeking in vain for work, and with charity laboring to keep back suffering and starvation in our cities.” During the absence of their grandmother Lena West and Landon Bailey were burned to death at Sedalia. Mo. The minority members of the foreign affairs committee in the house bitterly attacked Mr. Blount’s Hawaiian policy in their report. In 1893 the number of persons who committed suicide in the United States was 4,436, against 3,860 in the previous year. The biggest trust ever organized has been almost perfected by the organization of the saloonkeepers of Ohio. St. Louis officers caught two counterfeiters with a complete outfit for the manufacture of bogus money. Six dead bodies were recovered from the ruins by fire of a Buffalo (N. Y.) boarding-house. The value of the three principal metals produced in Idaho during 1893 was: Gold, $1,645,000; silver, $1,502,000; lead, $775,009; total, $3,922,000; against a total of 37,063,000 in 1892. Albert Schock, of Chicago, won the six-day bicycle race in New York, beating all records with 1,600 miles. In the United States $33,319,866 were given to charity, education and popular entertainment during the year 1893. J. W. Burke & Co., publishers at Macon, Ga., failed for SIOO,OOO. The receipts of the government for the first six months of the fiscal year were $155,431,314 and the expenditures $189,500,032, a deficiency of receipts over expendituresof $34,068,718. The body of Lucy Stone, the philanthropist, world-renowned thinker and defender of the rights of woman, whose death occurred at Boston October 18 last, was cremated in Boston. J. K. Edmiston was arrested on the charge of embezzling $30,000 from the suspended Walla Walla (Wash.) Savings bank, of which he was president. Crazy from drink John Cummings locked himself and family in a burning Omaha house and four perished. The total number of post offices in operation in the United States is 68,806. During the year 1893 78.839,233 pieces of money were coined at Philadelphia. A negro and his three sons were whipped with hickory switches by masked men at Waco, Tex., for maiming live stock. A dynamite petard was exploded outside the parliament house at Athens, Greece, doing great damage to property. After twenty-three years of silence, caused by terror, Mrs. Kuertl, living near Valparaiso, Ind., recovered her speech. The total number of murders committed in the United States in 1893 was 6,615, against 6,791 in 1892. The number of legal executions in 1893 was 126, against 107 in 1892, and the lynchings numbered 200. The output of iron ore in the Lake Superior region in 1893 was 6,135,000 tons, against 9,074,293 tons the previous year. So far as reported 6,085 lives were lost on the ocean and 215 on the lakes and rivers of this country in 1893, against 3,346 in 1892. The loss of life by railroad disasters in the United States in 1893 was 4.603, against 4,428 in 1892. The losses by fire in the United States for the year 1893 aggregated 3188,356,940, showing a large increase as compared with the losses of 1892. The Globe theater and several other buildings in Boston were burned, the loss being $500,000. While Mrs. Phoebe Johnson and John Cleaver were standing up to be married in Paterson, N. J., the woman died of heart disease.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Thomy Lafon, who was the richest colored man in the south, died in New Orleans. He left property valued at 8500,000. Samuel McKoon died at San Diego, CaL, aged 91. He was said to be the oldest free mason in the United States having been admitted as a member in 1823. Mbs. Mabgabet Mabtin, eminent as a Methodist writer, died at Columbia, S. C. She was born in Scotland in 1807. William D. Bancker, general superintendent of the American News company. was found dead in bed at fas home in Brooklyn. Ex-Congressman John E. Hutton died at Mexico, Mo., from the grip, aged 64 years. He was an author of note and served in Congress from 1884 until 1883. .

Col. Alfred A. Wynne died at his I home near Nashville, Tenn., aged 94 ' years. Be was a personal friend of Gen. Andrew Jackson. Patrick Eugene Prendergast was found guilty in Chicago of the murder of Carter Harrison and the penalty was fixed at hanging. Mrs. Jane Sloan, aged 50 years, and • Miss Sarah Lavery, aged 30 years, were | found dead in the parlor of the former's ! home in Philadelphia. Both died of I heart disease i Samuel Yarham, the oldest inhabitant in central Kansas, died at Abilene, aged 109. He was thirty years in the English army. Thomas Payne King, who was in the charge of the Light brigade at Bala/klava, died from apoplexy at Wichita, Kan. Nathaniel Wheeler, president of the Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine company, died in Bridgeport, Conn., aged 73 years. The legislatures of Ohio and Virginia convened in regular session. Mrs. October, fell at Terre Haute, Ind., and broke her thigh. She could not recover. David J. Williams died at Saratoga, N. Y., at the advanced age of 103 years. His father lived to be 113 years old and his grandfather died at the age of 129 years.

FOREIGN. A heavy decrease in British trade is shown by the yearly review of a London paper. Imports fell off £17,500,000. j Capt. John Andrews and three of ‘ the crew of an American schooner I were imprisoned by the Brazilian au- I thorities. Capt. Wilson and forty men, who : were pursuing King Lobengula in ! South Africa, were killed by the Matabeles. George W. Savage, United States consul at Dundee. Scotland, is dead. The splendid vintage in France has made wine a drug in the market at one penny a quart. In regard to the reported seizure of the Gilbert islands by the British the i colonial office says that the whole group was formally annexed by Great Britain in 1892 Dr. Kohn and Dr. Passau, lawyers, ■ and Herr Pick, a bank clerk, fell over a precipice near Vienna, Austria, and were killed instantly. The exports from Havana to the United States during the year 1893 were: Tobacco, 142,413 bales; cigars, 63,539,000; cigarettes, 6,390,000 bundles, and sugar. 106,517 tons. At a banquet in Quebec to Canada’s chief commissioner to the fair the American flag was removed in response to demands. During a heavy fog at Amsterdam, Holland, twenty persons fell into the river and were drowned.

Rt. Hon. William Ewart Gladstone, prime minister of England, celebrated his 84th birthday. The occasion found him in the best of health and spirits. The steamer Alert w’as wrecked in a storm in Port Philip bay in Australia and thirteen of her crew and two passengers were drowned. In India 50,000 persons were said to be on the verge of starvation. At Teneriffe, one of the islands of the Canary group, a thousand deaths from cholera have taken place. The Manchester (England) ship canal was formally opened to traffic. A hundred thousand persons lined its banks. By a vote of almost 2 to 1 the province of Ontario declared for prohibition of the manufacture and sale of liquor.

LATER. The public debt statement issued on the 2d showed that the debt increased $7,125,723 during the month of December. The cash balance in the treasury was $90,375,555. The total debt, less the cash balance in the treasury, amounts to $963,605,917. French police visited the homes of 10,000 supposed anarchists and made many arrests. The Montgomery Iron company of Port Kennedy, Pa., made an assignment with liabilities of $330,000. On complaint of his wife, Charles Kohler, a Toledo peddler, was arrested for a murder committed in 1884. All riders who took part in the sixday bicycle race in New York have been suspended by the National Cycling association. ■> East-bound railway shipments during 1893 amounted to 3,281(280 tons, against 3,749,650 in 1892. Most of the business portion of Red Key, Ind., was destroyed by fire. The Columbus Watch company’s property at Columbus, 0., went into the hands of a receiver with liabilities of $250,000; assets, $400,000. The amount of national bank notes outstanding December 31, 1893, was $208,442,027. The New York legislature convened at Albany. The coinage executed at the United States mints during the month of December aggregated 8,714,551 pieces of the value of $10,490,775.25. Worthington C. Smith, ex-member of congress, died at St Albans. Vt. Three men were killed and several injured by the premature explosion of a blast in a quarry near Boston. In a collision between stock and freight trains near Linwood, Kan., three men were killed and twelve injured, two fatally. Accused of conspiracy against the government of Brazil, twelve naval cadets were shot on the plaza at Pernambuco.

Anti-tax rioters at Campobello, Sicily, applied the torch to mills and public buildings and a third of the town was destroyed. Francis T. Walton, better known as Plunger Walton, proprietor of the Grand hotel in New York, failed for $200,000. The Mississippi and Kentucky legislatures convened for business. The internal revenue feajpres of the Wilson tariff bill have been agreed on by the house committee. An income tax of 2 per cent is among the provisions.