People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1894 — PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Mme. Lavra Schirmer Mapleson, the opera singer, died in New York. She made her debut when but 7 years old. A. F. Brown, one of the oldest and best-known lawyers of lowa, died at his home in Waverly at the age of 66 years. He was a delegate from lowa to the republican national convention when Lincoln was nominated.

Georgb H. Ely, • Cleveland®anker, died in Washington, where het tvent to oppose abolition of the duty or Iron. Sibley (dem.), of Pennsylvania, forwarded his designation to tfte governor as a member of congress. Col Richard Ross, said to be the oldest gambler in the country, died at Denver. He was born in 1812 and waa in the Blackhawk war. Mrs. Amy Swift died in Washington county. 0., and her twin sister, Mrs. Pedro Evans, died two hours later in Morgan county, O. They were aged 83 and were the oldest twins in the United States. They had never lived more than 3 miles apart John D. Stewart, who represented the Fifth district of Georgia in congress for three terms ending in 1890, died at his home in Griffin, aged 59 years. John Yaryan, probably the oldest legislator in the world, died at Richmond. Ind. lie served as state senator during the last legislature at the age of 94. Mrs. Fontaine, aged 100 years and 3 months, died at Hancock, Mich. Judge William H. Calkins, a .member of congress from Indiana from 1876 o 1882, died at Tacoma, Wash., from Bright’s disease, aged 52 years. Thomas Mooni.igiit, of Kansas, was nominated by the president for minister to Bolivia.

forelLn. The decrees expelling ex-King Milan and ex-Queen Natalie from Servia.have been canceled. A new Servian cabinet has been formed with M. Simitch as prime minister and minister of foreign affairs. Constance F. Woolson, the authoress, a grandniece of James Fenimore Cooper, died at Nice, Italy. Timbuctoo was occupied by French troops. The African city is the most important in western Soudan. Fifteen persons lost their lives in a railroad accident near Samara in the southeastern part of Russia. Prince Bismarck was given an enthusiastic welcome to Berlin and was publicly embraced by the emperor. Fire destroyed 124 houses, thirty godowns and a temple in the Japanese village of Kaga. Additional advices say that 12,000 persons and 50,000 cattle were lost in the earthquake which destroyed the city of Kuehan. Persia.

American Minister Smythe was said to have made himself objectionable at Hayti by giving advice to the officials. England’s fear of war is dying out, and the public is no longer absorbed with vague rumors of conflict The 35th birthday of Emperor William was celebrated throughout Germany in a most enthusiastic manner. Thieves broke into the American legation at Rome and set fire to the archives, most of which were reduced to ashes. Rosina Yokes (Mrs. Cecil Clay), the well-known English actress, died at her home in Torquay, Devonshire, aged 36 years. Her death removes the last of that once famous organization, the Yokes family, from the stage. The British bark Port Yarrock was driven ashore in Brandon bay, Ireland, and her crew of twenty-six were drowned. The Turkish steamer Mi was burned in the Black sea and the captain and twenty others perished. Solomon & Mass, bankers of Frankfort and Mannheim, Germany, failed for 20,000.000 marks. Brazilian . insurgents captured the government fortifications on Bom-Jeus island and twenty-five soldiers were killed.

LATER. At the conclusion of the financial discussion in the United States senate on the 30th the bill to repeal the federal election laws was considered and it was decided that a vote on the measure should be taken on the 6th. In the house the income tax bill was discussed at length. Mrs. Williams, a faith cure enthusiast, finished a 110 days’ fast at Portland, Ore. Judge Cox decided in Washington against the Knights of Labor petition to restrain the new issue of government bond-;. Many houses were unroofed, fences demolished and buildings in course of erection damaged by a windstorm at Baltimore, Md. Ohio republican legislators in caucus decided upon a bill for biennial sessions of the general assembly. By tiring on an insurgent tug Admiral Benham emphasized to Brazilian insurgents that American vessels must be let alone. The business portion of Rosamond, 111., was destroyed by fire. A large cotton mill of 8,000 spindles, the property of the Railway Mill company at Oldham, England, was burned, the loss being $500,000. The Rhode Island legislature convened at Providence.

’1 he little son of Thomas Duncan, a milkman, was drowned at Selma, Ala., in a large can of buttermilk. Labor representatives met in Chicago andorganized a new political party to be known as the Union Labor league. At the election in New York city to fill congressional vacancies Eli Quigg (rep.) was elected in the Fourteenth district and Isador Strauss (dem.) was chosen in the Fifteenth district. As the result of a debate in the Colorado legislature Col. Fisk challenged Senator Boyd to a duel. Five men were killed and one fatally injured by the explosion of a boiler in a mill at Crow, Ky. Jvdoe Lee, at Little Rock, Ark., declared null the marriage of a negro and a white woman and fined both. A break occurred in the levee above Sacramento,Cal., causing an inundation of 600 acres of the finest hop land in that section. In a drunken row at a dance in AlArk., Lew Jones, Charles Ross and c>am Powell were killed. On their way to Texas a family of immigrants, consisting of two children and father and mother, were frozen to death in a blizzard near Clarendon, Ark.