People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1894 — PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

William JBiohie, the astronomer, died at Sharon, Pa A book on which he had been working for twenty-five years will be published by his niece in Chicago. Henry Edick (lied at the house of his daughter, Mrs. Frank Headley, in St Joseph, Mich., at the age of 104 years. Mrs. Dodson (colored), familiarly known as "Aunty Dodson,” died in St Paul, aged at least 107. There were records showing tiiat she was 107, and probably older. John Patton, Jr., a prominent lawyer of Grand Rapids, was appointed senator from Michigan by Got. Rich to succeed the late F. B. Stockbridge. He is but 42 years old. Col. W. C. P. Breckinridge opened his campaign for congress in Lexington, Ky., by asking the forgiveness of his friends and openly defying his enemies.

The Illinois prohibitionists in con vention at Bloomington made the following nominations: United States senator. Dr. J. G. Evans, of Abingdon; state treasurer, J. W. Puterbaugh, of Mackinaw; superintendent of public instruction. N. T. Edwards, of Kewanee. Kansas equal suffragists opened the campaign at Kansas City. Susan B. Anthony and Rev. Anna Shaw were among the speakers. John Jay died in New York, aged 78 years. He took a prominent part in the anti-slavery agitation and was minister to Austria from 1869 to 1875. At the democratic convention at Mexico, Mo., Champ Clark was renominated for congress. At the republican congressional convention in Geneva, 111., Congressman A. J. Hopkins was renominated. FOREIGN. The enormous sawmills of the arsenal at Mourillon, France, were burned, the loss being $1,250,000. Another earthquake in Greece completed the destruction of many houses. No lives were reported lost. Karakkga, king of Unyoro, was defeated by the British-African expedition and a death blow to the slave trade administered. Fire destroyed Stephani, Russia, and a cyclone ruined household effects the 5,000 inhabitants had been enabled to save. The Belgian international exposition was opened at Antwerp bj' King Leopold. A new cabinet was formed in Holland with Herr Roell as president of the council and minister of foreign affairs. Emperor William of Germany did heroic work in fighting a fire which threatened to destroy Gatow, a village near Potsdam. The seven tourists imprisoned in the Souraich cavern in Austria siDee April 28 were rescued by government engineers. They were almost insane from the nervous strain. The German steamship companies have ordered the reduction of steerage passage rates from Italian ports to New York to §2O. Gen. Antonio Ezeta attacked the rebels again in San Salvador and dislodged them from their position at Santa Ana, killing 214. Four persons were killed and thirty injured by an explosion of acids at the Cordite works near London. More than 200 Indians in the vicinity of Ungava bay in Labrador died of starvation during the past winter.

LATER. The new tariff bill was briefly discussed in the United States senate on the 9th. In the house Mr. Hatch reported his anti-option bill, and the naval appropriation bill was called up and briefly explained in some of its parts. A. N. Schuster & Co., wholesale dealers in clothing at St. Joseph, Mo., failed with liabilities placed at $500,000. Organization of the state constitutional convention was affected at Albany, N. Y., by the election of Joseph H. Choate as president The patents on type distributing machines, seed planting machinery and fare registers have expired. Gov. Jonas Wolf, of the Chickasaw nation, was indicted by the Chickasaw grand jury upon the charge of embezzling between $25,000 and $75,U00 of the per capita funds. Tbk village of Pawnee, 111., was nearly wiped out by an incendiary fire. Coxey, Browne and Jones, the commonweal leaders, were found guilty in Washington of violating the law. A motion for a new trial was entered. The steel casting works at Lima, 0., were destroyed bv fire, entailing a loss of $300,000. A telegram from Buenos Ayres says that during the last ten days business failures have occurred there involving liabilities aggregating nearly $20,000,000.

Edward Lane was renominated for congress by the democrats of the Eighteen Illinois district. William Crawford shot and killed Jessie Lowery and himself at Jacksonville, O. They were lovers, but he was out of employment and despondent. Col Carpenter and Capt. Logan, commanding an army at Sutter’s Fort, Cal., disappeared with S3OO of the industrial funds. A telegram from Hakodate, Japan, reported the loss of the sealing schooner Matthew Turner with all on board, twenty-three in number. At the annual meeting in St Louis of the National Union of Chiefs of Police President Seavy, of Omaha, was reelected. It was said that gold had been found in the state of Guerrero, Mexico, equalling in extent the gold fields of South Africa. The National Temperance society at its annual meeting in New York elected Maj. Gen. O. O. Howard president Refusing to obey a request to go around La Porte, Ind., Gen. Randall and his staff were put in jaiL A determined effort was being made to break up the army.