People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1894 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. DOMESTIC. MADISON CHEADLE, a farmer in Morgan county, O., charged with theft, was taken from his house by white caps, beaten almost to insensibility and then hanged to the limb of a tree. A tramp cut him down in time to save his life. FIRE wiped out the business portion of Elliston, a railroad and logging camp near Helena, Mont. A SLATE quarry at Steinsville, Pa., caved in, killing David Williams, aged 55, and Edward Daniels, aged 30. A FIRE originated in the Brooks’ Bros.’ lumber yard in St. Paul, causing a loss of $100,000.

THE business portion of Burdick, Ind., was wiped out by fire. E. D. McNITT, minus both legs and one arm, wanted to marry Mrs. Martin, who had left her husband in Arkansas. She refused and both were found dead at Bonham, Tex. A FREIGHT and passenger train collided at Tower Hill, Ill., doing damage to the extent of $100,000. No one was

injured. FIRE destroyed the Brooklyn (N. Y.) biscuit works, the loss being over $200,000. AFTER devoting fourteen days in Chicago to the investigation of the recent strike the labor commission adjourned, to meet again in Washington September 26. LORD CLINTON trotted a mile at Dayton,O., in 2:12, breaking the world’s record for time over a half-mile track. CENSUS office statistics indicate that nearly one-half the families in the United States own their own homes. RICHARD McAVOY and George Thomas were killed at Hartford, Kan., in a quarrel over some chickens. MARY HOPKINS, once a society leader in Lawrence, Kan., was in jail at Guthrie, O. T., on a charge of stealing horses.

THREE men were killed and a fourth injured by the explosion of a thrashing machine boiler at Elbow Lake, Minn.

BY the forest fires in Michigan the Diamond Match company lost 90,000,000 feet of lumber in the Trout creek district, and the Nester estate 20,000,000 feet. DURING a drunken brawl among Chilcat Indians at Juneau, in Alaska, six were murdered and a large number seriously wounded. OVER 30,000 Sunday school children marched in the annual rally day parade in Detroit, Mich. AN English syndicate is said to have purchased thirty-four paper mills in Wisconsin. The deal involves $14,000,000. FLINT GROVER, a private in the regular army at Fort Myer, Va., has fallen heir to a fortune of $500,000. WALTER B. RICHIE, of Ohio, was elected supreme chancellor of the Knights of Pythias at the Washington conclave. PARKE & LACEY, dealers in machinery at Portland, Ore., failed for $125,000. MRS. LIZZIE BENT, of Lynn, Mass., has recovered her daughter, who was stolen from her thirteen years ago. THE exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 31st ult. aggregated $744,230,241, against $813,498,631 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1893, was 14.6. THERE were 168 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 31st ult., against 284 the week previous and 356 in the corresponding time in 1893. THE business portion of the village of Roberts, Ill., was destroyed by fire. FIVE persons were drowned by a cloudburst at Walde, Tex. IT is claimed that there is a defect in the sugar schedule of the new tariff bill admitting adulterated goods cheaper than the pure article. J. L. BAY, accused of appropriating $100,000 of Arkansas script, and for whom officers had been searching for two years, was arrested at Memphis, Tenn.

ROBERT J., owned by C. J. Hamlin, of Buffalo, N. Y., broke the world’s pacing record on the track at Fort Wayne, Ind., making a mile in 2:03¾. PROF. D. E. CONANT, instructor in the gymnasium of the University of Chicago, was drowned while bathing in Silver lake at Akron, O. THE total receipts from all sources at the treasury in Washington during August amounted to $41,021,330, and the disbursements to $31,688,804, leaving a surplus for the month of $9,332,526. BY the bursting of an artesian well basin the town of Uvalde, Tex., was inundated and it was thought 200 persons were drowned. The property loss was estimated at $1,500,000. THE Montreal express on the Delaware & Hudson railroad was thrown from the track near Port Kent, N. Y., and more than twenty persons were injured, none fatally. BOTH eastward and westward Atlantic records were broken, the former by the Campania, which made the trip from New York to Queenstown in 5 days 10 hours and 47 minutes, the latter by the Lucania, which made the trip from Queenstown to New York in 5 days 8 hours and 38 minutes. GEORGE F. NEWLAND and his wife were fatally burned at Saratoga, N. Y. THE town of New Castle, Pa., was literally flooded with counterfeit quarters and dimes. IN conclave at Washington the supreme assembly of the Pythian Sisterhood elected Mrs. George Bemis, of Worcester, Mass., as supreme chancellor. The Pythian Sisters elected Mrs. Ida M. Weaver, of Des Moines, Ia., as supreme chief.

THE percentages of the baseball clubs in the national league tor the week ended on the 1st were: Baltimore, .660; Boston, .639; New York, .636; Philadelphia, .561; Brooklyn, .542; Cleveland, .524; Pittsburgh, .491; Chicago, .463, Cincinnati, .435; St. Louis, .413; Washington, .345; Louisville, .296. FOREST fires wiped out the towns of Hinckley, Mission Creek. Milaca and Standstone in Minnesota, Bashaw, Barronett, Benoit, Cartwright, Fifield, Granite Lake, Grantsburg, Glidden, Marengo, Muscado, Shell Lake and South Range in Wisconsin, and Sidnaw, Ewen and Trout Creek in Michigan. The total loss of life as far as known was placed at 466 and the loss to property at $12,000,000. S. BARON & CO., knit goods manufacturers of New York, were forced to assign through the speculating of a junior partner. Liabilities, $150,000. FOUR masked men robbed the bank at Tescott, Kan., of $1,000, and fatally wounded a citizen who attempted to interfere. HENRY LOESCHE shot his wife four times at St. Louis and then cut his own throat. A NEW counterfeit two-dollar bank note was discovered by the redemption agency of the treasury department on the Commercial national bank of Providence, R. I.

MRS. THOMAS McEMERY and her child were run down on a bridge and killed by a train near Fulton, Ill. POLISH Catholics at Omaha were swindled out of $22,000 by their priest and locked out of church by the bishop. MASKED robbers tortured an aged couple near Warren, O., and secured seventy cents. The old people would probably die of their injuries. THE first ocean cable ever laid in New York bay was put down by the Commercial Cable company. JOHN KAUFFMAN, a wealthy brewer in Cincinnati, O., was fatally wounded by his wife, whom he had left. SMOKE from forest fires became so dense in the city of Boston that artificial light was necessary at noon. HEAVY wind and rainstorms wrecked several buildings at Indianapolis and destroyed hundreds of shade trees. ACCORDING to the treasury statement the public debt decreased $1,713,654 during August. SIX negroes who had been arrested on a charge of barn-burning were shot to death by a mob while being taken to the jail at Millington, Tenn. JAN HUS, the first Bohemian Meth odist church in the world, was dedicated in Chicago with interesting ceremonies. CLAIMING that the increase was illegal, whisky men will refuse to pay the new tax and appeal to the supreme court. LATER reports from the fire-swept district of northeastern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin indicate that the loss of life and destruction of property have not been exaggerated. While it is not possible to ascertain the exact number of lives lost it is certain that between 400 and 500 persons perished. The property loss will not fall short of $10,000,000. AT Burbank, O,. the Methodist church, twelve dwelling-houses and five barns were destroyed by fire. BURGLARS entered the Wabash ticket office at Springfield, Ill., at the noon hour and robbed the safe of $1,000. W. M. GRANGER, manager at Pittsburgh of the Guarantee Company of North America, has disappeared, after issuing $800,000 worth of bogus policies.

MRS. JOHN CARTER and John Wemmet were murdered at Burr Oak, Ia. The woman’s husband was arrested on suspicion. FOREST fires were raging in Pennsylvania, and trenches were being dug to protect the oil and gas plants. SMOKE from forest fires made navigation dangerous on Lakes Superior and Michigan. THE national irrigation convention opened at Denver with about 200 delegates in attendance. Several foreign countries were represented. HEAVY rains averted further danger from forest fires at many points in Wisconsin and Minnesota. MRS. J. McPHEE, her two children and Miss Mabel Hill were caught m a waterspout near Perry, O. T., and drowned. AT the bicycle tournament in Palmer, Mass., Allen Atkins, 12 years old, broke the world record for riding backwards, making a half mile in 2:1¾. THE first national labor holiday was generally observed throughout the country. AT Seneca Falls, N. Y., three young men were arrested charged with having destroyed property worth $200,000 by fire. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

JOHN C. GAULT, a veteran railroad man, died in Chicago from paralysis, aged 65 years. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES celebrated his 85th birthday at Beverly Farms, near Boston. The following congressional nominations were reported: Iowa, Seventh district, J. R. Bancroft (dem.). Illinois, Sixth district, James J. Linehan (pop.); Tenth, John Olsen (dem.). Indiana, Twelfth district, Freeman Kelley (pop.). Wisconsin, Third district, C. M. Bullett (pop.); Fifth, S. S. Barney (rep.). Mississippi, First district, L. A. Brown (pop.); Second, John C. Kyle (dem.) renominated. Tennessee, Eighth district, J. A. McCamm (rep.). Texas, Thirteenth district, B. B. Kenyon (rep.). WILLIAM REVELL MOODY, eldest son of the revivalist, was married to Miss Mary Whittle, eldest daughter of Maj. D. W. Whittle, at East Northfield, Mass. RICHARD McGRIFF, of Deerfield, Ind., and Will McGriff, of Geneva, Ind., celebrated their 90th birthday. They are said to be the oldest twins in the United States. IN an open letter to the republicans of New York ex-Vice President Morton announced his candidacy for the gubernatorial nomination.

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND arrived at Buzzard’s Bay, Mass., where he will spend a brief vacation. THE republicans of North Carolina met in state convention at Raleigh and indorsed the populist state ticket COLORADO prohibitionists nominated a full ticket for state officers, headed by George Richardson for governor. CONGRESSMEN were nominated as follows: Virginia, Eighth district, J. G. Mason (pop.). Texas, Fourth district, D. B. Culberson (dem.) renominated. North Carolina, Third district, Cyrus Thompson (pop.); Sixth, O. H. Dockery (rep.). CHANEY MATTHEWS, a negress 110 years of age, died at Little Rock. She was the oldest resident of Arkansas as far as was known. JUDGE JOHN E. HANNA, aged 90, the oldest practicing lawyer in Ohio, died at his home in McConnellsville. THE following congressional nominations were made: Wisconsin, Seventh district, C. H. Van Wormer (pop.). Iowa, Eighth district, Frank C. Stuart (pop.). Missouri, Thirteenth district, J. H. Raney (rep.). Nebraska, Second district, James E. Boyd (dem.); Third, J. M. Devine (pop.). GEN. NATHANIEL P. BANKS, famous as both soldier and statesman, died at Waltham, Mass., after a long illness, aged 78 years. SAMUEL J. KIRKWOOD, Iowa's war governor and secretary of the interior in the Garfield cabinet, died at Iowa City, aged 80 years. THE democrats elected their entire state ticket in Arkansas, James P. Clark, for governor, having from 15,000 to 20,000 majority. THE populists nominated C. H. Martin for congress in the Sixth district of North Carolina and Henry C. Baldwin in the Second district of Connecticut. THE Colorado democrats in convention at Denver nominated C. G. Thomas, of Arapahoe county, for governor.

FOREIGN. THE police of Milan arrested an anarchist in whose possession were papers detailing the plans of a conspiracy to stab the king of Greece. ABBE BRUNEAU was guillotined at Lavall, France for murder. BRITISH and German gunboats destroyed the stronghold of the Samoan rebels at Latuanuu and drove them out. MEXICAN troops were ambushed by Yaqui-Indians near Los Guesimes, and twelve soldiers and one woman were killed. FEARING pleuro-pneumonia the Belgian government ordered quarantine of all American cattle for forty-five days after arrival. ONE THOUSAND Chinese were burned or drowned during a fire among the flower boats on the Canton river. IN a quarrel over boundary lines between San Miguel Achiutla and Teposcolma, Mexico, twenty-five persons were killed. A DECREE has been issued by Spain cancelling the reciprocity treaty between the United States and Cuba, to take effect the moment the United States applies the new customs tariff. SEVEN persons were shot in Hayti for connection with a conspiracy to murder a daughter of Hippolyte. POINT AU PIC, a summer resort 70 miles below Quebec, was destroyed by fire. TWENTY persons were drowned in an accident on Morecam bay, near Lancaster, England. PREPARATIONS for an industrial exposition of giant proportions, to be held in 1897, were being made at Stockholm, Sweden.

LATER. POPULISTS of Iowa met in convention at Des Moines and nominated a full state ticket headed by S. B. Crane, of Davenport, for secretary of state. The platform indorses the Omaha platform, favors the free and unlimited coinage of silver and opposes the issue of any more bonds by the national government. URBAN A. WOODBURY, the republican candidate, was elected governor of Vermont by 26,000 majority. SAMUEL J. Kirkwood, Iowa’s war governor, was buried at Iowa City, thousands following the body to the grave. ALL but two of the nineteen business houses in Shipman, Ill., were destroyed by fire, also a number of residences. DISPATCHES from the upper peninsula of Michigan show that rain in that region had effectually put a stop to the forest fires. SENATOR JONES, of Nevada, has withdrawn from the republican party because of its attitude toward silver and will identify himself with the ponulists. FIRE destroyed fifty dwellings and all but two stores in Dows City, Ia., a town of 1,000 inhabitants. Loss, $100, - 000.

A MOB took Bourke, the assailant of Mrs. Bond, from the officers when nearing Watertown, S. D., and hanged him to a pole. DURING a thunderstorm in Wichita, Kan., Thomas Herman's house was torn to pieces and his two children killed by lightning. DR. JAMES C. WELLING, president of the Columbian university at Washington, D. C., died at Hartford, Conn., of heart failure, aged 69 years. AT Union City, Ind., Houk Brothers’ butter tub factory and several stores and residences were burned, the loss being $150,000. EMIGRATION and anti-emigration factions came into collision near Milledgeville, Ga., and Rev. Ben Gaston and six other negroes were shot. THE Jewish quarters of half a dozen Morroco towns were sacked by the Kabyles and many men and women were killed and others sold into slavery. THE Stark Tool & Machine company of Buffalo, N. Y., went into the hands of a receiver with liabilities of $100,000. OVER 450 corpses of the victims of the forest fires had been already found in and near Hinckley, Minn. More than 600 square miles of pine land were burned over and a dozen towns were absolutely swept off the earth.