People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1894 — PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Mrs. George H. Williams, aged 62, wife of the ex-United States attorney general, whose religious idiosyncrasies I had brought her notoriety, died at Portland, Ore., after a fast of seventy days. IV. R. Calloway was nominated for governor of Washington at the democratic convention in Astoria. Case Broderick was renominated for congress by the First district Kansas republicans. The republican state convention of Vermont has been called for Montpelier June 2u. The governor of North Carolina appointed ex-Gov. J. T. Jarvis as United States senator to succeed the late Senator Vance. G. S. N. Morton, acting governor of the state of Wyoming, died at Cheyenne. Mrs Maria Robinson (colored) died at Carlyle, I IL, aged 105 years. W. B. Daniels, aged 76, ex-governor of Idaho, died at Tacoma. Wash. Daniel Lamb, aged 64, one of the founders of the state of West Virginia, and the original draftsman of the state constitution, w as found dead in his bed at Wheeling. James W. Throckmorton, who was governor of Texas in reconstruction times and was removed by Gen. Sheridan, died at McKinney, Tex. Ex-Lieut. Gov. A. G. Mcßi rney, of Ohio, died at Lebanon, aged 83 years. Jesse Seligman, of the New York and London banking firm of J. i 8. Seligman, died at Coronado Beach, Cal., aged 67 years.

FOREIGN. In a fire that destroyed a quarter of a mile of property in Yokohama two American sailors named MtJbre and V 5 ood and four Japanese women were burned to death. Princess Victoria and Grand Duke Ernest Louis of Hesse were married at Coburg in the presence of an assemblage which included Emperor William and Queen Victoria. A fire at Huntsville, Ont., destroyed thirty-four business places, several dwelling houses, a hotel, one church and the post office, the total loss being >130,000. Explorers verified the discovery of a deserted city in the mountains near Durango, Mexico. Its population must have been 25,000 people. Auguste Lare.au was guillotined at Dijon, France, for the murder of his mother, his wife and his mistress. Princess Helena, second daughter of Queen Victoria, unveiled a tablet in Westminster Abbey in London to the memory of Jenny Lind, who died on November 2, 1887, at the age of 67 years. Earthquake shocks in Greece destroyed eight villages in the district of Ata.lar.ti and the t tai number of persons killed was said to be 1(50. The American tug Grace was captured while fishing in Canadian waters and her crew were in custody. Bandits stripped the cathedral at Banon, Mexico, of its ornaments and two were killed in a fight with guards. The total numoer of deaths caused by the earthquakes in Greece is 227. Nicaragua was said to have seized an American mail boat and to have sold the property of the Nicaragua Canal company for debt The woolen mills at Ivanovo, Russia, were burned, the loss being 1,750,000 rubles, and ten persons were killed during the fire.

LATER. Senator Mills closed the general debate on the tariff bill in the United States senate on the 24th. He earnestly advocated its passage, though it did not meet his views. In the house the nost office appropriation bill was passed. A waterspout and cyclone destroyed every house at Gilchrist, Tex., but one. Edward J. Workman, oldest son of Rev. T. C. Workman, the renowned evangelist, shot his wife and himself on a street in South Lebanon, Ind. Domestic trouble caused the deed. A boiler explosion destroyed Houser & Foutz’ tile mill at Huntington, Ind., and killed Elmer Anson and fatally injured David Houser and Adam Foutz. The republicans ot the Seventh district of Indiana nominated Charles L. Henry, of Madison county, for congress. By a gasoline explosion in the home of Casimir Nigg near Carondelet, Mo., two children were killed and Mr. Nigg and his wife and Caroline Vogel, her mother, were fatally injured. The Wellman American artic expedition sailed from Aalesund, Norway, for Spitzbergen on the steamer Ragnvold Jarl. Ex-Postmaster General Frank Hattan, one of the editors and proprietors of the Washington Post, was stricken with paralysis and was in a dangerous condition. A bill giving women the right to ▼ote in school elections was passed by the lower branch of the Ohio legisla ture and is now a law. Of the 213 persons arrested in Warsaw for taking part in the Kilinski centennial celebration 209 have been sent to Siberia. May wheat broke all records and sold on the board of trade in Chicago at 57cents, the lowest price ever recorded. Mrs. Claudia Herrera, a Mexican woman, died in San Francisco at the age of 120. Mrs. Edward Hofackkr, a bride of a day, committed suicide at Kalamazoo, Mich., with poison. No cause was known. H. W. Ogden (dem.) was elected to congress at Shreveport, La., to fill the unexpired term of N. S. Blanchard. The Saranac Lake house at Saranac Lake, N. Y., was destroyed by fire, the loss being *125,000. Albert T. Beck, a noted Indianapolis lawyer and politician, was found dead in bed with a bullet in his brain, and opinion was divided as to whether he committed suicide or was murdered. I