People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1894 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From Ail Parts. DOMESTIC. The trial of American Railway union officers for contempt of court was begun before Judge Woods in Chicago. A fight near Boston between Jack Dempsey and "Australian Billy” McCarthy was declared a draw at the end of the twentieth round. All employes of the Union Pacific railway have been notified to abstain from any participation in politics. Forest fires continued to rage in northern Wisconsin. Fisher Meadow was wiped out and Baruum was said to be in danger. Judge Cooledgedecided the election illegal by which St. Joseph. Mich., secured the county seat from Berrien Springs. lx a free-for-all race at Crawford sville, Ir.d., Guerita stumbled and fell, fatally .injuring her driver, Joe Grimes. William Adams, of Anderson, Ind., became insane during the night and fatally injured his wife bj' choking and biting her. At Kossuth, 0., a man stolen by gypsies twenty-four years ago when a child has just found his family living near him. At Springfield, Mass.. Bliss, of Chicago, rode a mile on a bicycle in 1:52 8-5, making a new record. Heavy rains in Wisconsin quenched the forest fires and broke a drought of many weeks standing. The supreme lodge, Knights of Pythias, has ruled that the ritual must be printed in the English language alone.

.Miss Marion Glendennino and Kittie Keutze, both of Brooklyn, X. Y., aged 22 and 15 respectively, were drowned in the Oyster river at Saybrook, Conn. Col. 11. C. Cross, the first mayor of Emporia, Kan., died of heart failure while visiting on Mackinac Island, Mich. The Middleton (Pa.) bank, the dolest institution of its kind in Dauphin county, failed on account of depression in business. The Larkspur inn, a magnificent summer hotel near San Rafael. Cal., was destroyed by fire, the loss being *IOO,OOO. Thieves took SSOO and 815,000 in bonds from State Treasurer Worth, of Raleigh, N. C. At Des Moines, la., the corner stone of a monument to the soldiers and sailors of the state was laid with imposing ceremonies. The story sent out from Lofty. Pa., that the mining town of Scotch Valley had sunk out of sight is untrue. Ox - the Indiaftapolis race-track Robert J. paced a mile in 2:02)*, breaking all previous records. The time of the three heats won by Robert J. were 2:05*4, 2:02)4 and 2:04%. Four thousand descendants of Davy Crocket held a reunion at Humboldt, Tenn. J. W. Brooks, a saloonkeeper of Albilene, Tex., became converted and made a bonfire of his stock and fixtures. The business portion of Conrad, an lowa village, was wiped out by fire. Noel Maisox - was hanged at Pittsburgh, Pa., fir the murder of Mrs. Sophia Raes. Bernard Altenberger suffered death at Jersey City, N. J., for the murder of Katie Rupp. Wesley Warner was hanged at Mount Holly, N. J., for the murder of Lizzie Peak. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 7th aggregated $794,882,538, against 8744,280,241 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1893, was 8.4. Dan Wiggins, a notorious wifebeater. was dragged from his home at Waldo, Fla., and probably fatallywhipped by women. Felix Thompson, George Bridges and Jacob Muir died at Dykesville, La., from eating watermelons that had been poisoned. There were 215 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 7tli, against 268 the week previous and 323 in the corresponding time in 1893. The total failures in August aggregated liabilities of $lO,139,447, of which $3,172,330 were on manufacturing and $5,078,153 in trading concerns. In a quarrel near Correctionville, la., Michael Sobieswski, a farmer, shot and killed G. Hill, also a farmer, and then committed suicide. A REWARD of $2,000 has been offered for the finding, dead or alive, of Dr. W. A. Conklin, who is missing from Cassopolis, Mich. It is believed he was killed to prevent his testifying against a fellow practitioner. Trade reviews report slight improvement in business throughout the country. Daisy Majors, a 16 year-old girl who has acted as postmistress at Wampum, Pa. -was found to have embezzled $1,500. Before the kinetoseope in the Edison laboratory at Orange, N. J., Corbett knocked out Peter Courtney in six rounds. He received $5,000 for his efforts.

Eugene Dickson, a St. Louis lad, •wallowed a green fly while laughing and died within forty-eight hours in terrible agony. An open switch caused the wrecking of the Santa Fe's California express at Dillon Junction, N. M., and four men were fatally hurt. In a race against time at Indianapolis Directly placed the 3-year-old pacing record at 3:10 *4, a cut of a quartersecond. The Mutual Benefit Life Association of America, with headquarters in New York, was declared insolvent with policies of 810.000,000 outstanding. The Oklahoma county bank at South Enid. O. T., closed its doors.

At Springfield, Mass., Titus lowered the bicycle records for three, four and five miles, placing the last at 10:51 .‘>-5. The percentages of the basebal clubs in the national league for the week ended on the Bth were: Baltimore, .679; New York, .652; Boston, .649; Philadelphia, .579; Brooklyn, .549; Cleveland. .518; Pittsburgh, .4''7; Chicago, .489, Cincinnati, .417; St. Louis, .400; Washington, .348; Louisville, .289. Ben Wilhite, who died in Campbell county, was the tallest man ever known to live in Tennessee. He was 8 feet 6 inches high. During a cloudburst at Bethlehem, Pa., tlie water reached second-story windows on four of the streets. The entire business portion of Malta, 111., was wiped out by- fire. IV. A. Brady, representing Corbett, signed articles in New York for a fight with Jackson before the Sioux City (la.) club. Astronomer Louis Gatiiman, of Chicago, claims to have discovered vegetation on the moon with the telescope which he recently' completed. The steamship S. S. Curry arrived at South Chicago with 5,117 net tons of iron ore, the largest cargo ever carried on the great lakes. Muscoda, a town in Wisconsin which was nearly' destroyed by forest tires a week ago, was still further devastated bv a cyclone.

By a rear-end collision in the lloosae tunnel near North Adams, Mass., two men were killed and two injured. Near Barrington, 111., a passenger train on the Northwestern road was wrecked and Fireman McMahon was killed and five other persons were injured. A severe electric storm swept northern Illinois and many buildings were blown down and horses and eattle were killed. While he was sleeping in a hotel chair in Chicago thieves robbed Pugilist Peter Jackson of his watch and chain. A decision' of the Oklahoma supreme court nulifies all divorces granted by probate judges during the last year. Many divorcees having since remarried. the decision makes them bigamists. Link Waggoner, a noted outlaw and murderer, was shot to death in the jail at Minden, La., by a mob. In an interview at Buffalo, N. Y., General Master Workmen Sovereign, of the Knights of Labor, said that strikes were illegal and that strikers were criminals. Richard Smith, the well-known type founder of Philadelphia, died in Paris, aged 78 years. During a thunderstorm lightning struck the porch of a house at Jeannette, Pa., fatally injuring Mrs. Mahoney, her daughter Maggie and Mrs. Krept, a visitor. Twenty acres in the heart of the village of Dalton, 0., were devastated by an incendiary fire. Over fifty houses were destroyed, the loss being $200,000. J. A. Rawlins and wife, of Ravens* Wood, 111., failed to shut off the gas completely when they retired, and were asphyxiated. The September government crop report places the condition of corn at 63.4. Twenty per cent, of the area planted has been cut up for fodder or abandoned.

While fixing the electric lights in the tower of the city hall at Detroit, Mich., F. J. French was made a raving maniac by a shock. One-hale of the town of Oakview, Tex., the county seat of Live Oak county, was wiped out by fire. Mississippi’s governor, auditor and treasurer were arrested on tlie charge of issuing warrants in imitation of United States currency. On his fifth trial William G. French was convicted of murder at Ashland, Wis.. and sentenced to sixteen years’ imprisonment. The New York constitutional convention adopted a resolution changing the term of governor and lieutenant governor from three years, as at present, to two years. The forty-fourth anniversary of the admission of California to statehood was celebrated at San Jose. W. F. Collnkk A Co., general storekeepers at St. Petersburg, l’a., were robbed of $70,000 in bonds, notes and cash. A German lodge of Indianapolis has withdrawn from the Knights of Pythias because of the action on the ritual question. The twenty-eighth national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic and its different organizations was inaugurated at Pittsburgh by a parade of naval veterans. A receiver was appointed for the Citizens’ bank of Plattsmouth, Neb. Mary Fisher, 13 years old, of New York, who had been deaf and dumb for eight years, recovered speech and hearing after having been stunned by lightning. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen met in biennial convention at Harrisburg, Pa. The annual report of the comptroller of the currency at Washington shows that the total number of accounts, claims and cases settled during the fiscal year ended June 3J last was 33,165, involving $280,602,002.

PERSONAL AND POLJTICAL. Chari.us A. Busiel, of Laconia, was nominated for governor by the New Hampshire republican convention. The platform denounced the democratic administration, its Hawaiian and financial policy, and held it responsible for the business depression. In convention at Milwaukee the democrats nominated tne following state ticket: For governor, George W. Peck; lieutenant governor, A. J. Schmitz; secretary of state, Thomas J. Cunningham; treasurer, John Hunner: attorney general, J. L. O'Connor; superintendent of schools, C. A. Schultz: railroad commissioner, George C Prescott; insurance commissioner, O. R. j Skarr. The platform indorses the i democratic administration, the new tariff bill and the income tax. and declares that all money Issued by the government should be of equal vcJ aa

Gov. Waite was renominated by tl# Colorado populist convention at Pueblo. In convention at Helena the Montana republicans nominated Judge W. H. Hunt for associate justice of the supreme court. The platform declares for the free coinage of silver and protection and reciprocity are indorsed and the new tariff law is denounced. Col. Henry O. Kent was nominated for governor by the democrats of New Hampshire in convention at Concord. Louisiana sugar planters in convention at New Orleans decided to vote with the republicans in national elec tions. Additional returns show that Woodbury', republican candidate for governor, carried Vermont by 30,000 majority'. The next house of representatives will contain 204 members, all republicans except nine. Nomination’s forcongress were made as follows: Minnesota, First district, J. 11. Meighan (pop.); Second, J. F. Baker (dem.). Michigan, Twelfth district, S. M. Stephenson (rep.) renominated. North Carolina. First district, Harry Skinner (pop.). Arkansas, First district, T. J. Hunt (rep.). Nevada, James Dougherty (pop.). In convention at Reno the Nevada populists nominated George Feckliam, of Washoe, for governor. The following congressional nominations were made: Ohio, Twentieth district, H. E. Harringson (dem.). Colorado, First district, Lase Fence (pop.) renominated. Pennsylvania, Ninth dist, J.-S. Trexler (dem.). At tlie Maine election 11. B. Cleaves was reelected governor by a majority oi 37,000, the largest in the history of the state. 'The four republican congressmen—Thomas B. Reed, Nelson Dingley. S. L. Milliken and C. A. Boutelle—were reelected by increased majorities. The legislature will have a working republican majority of 125, which insures the reelection of Senator William P. Frye. William H. Hatch was renominated for congress by the democrats of the First district of Missouri. Bridget Gorman, known as the queen of gypsies in America, died at her camp near Cincinnati, aged 85 years.

FOREIGN. Eight boats belonging to Finland fishermen were wrecked in the Baltic sea and seventeen men were drowned. To SECURE the benefits of the new tariff law, Canada has decided to hereafter levy no export or stumpage duties on lumber. At a state banquet in Berlin Emperor William admonished his hearers that he would not brook opposition to his agrarian plans. The Comte de Paris, who had been critically ill for some time, died in London, aged 56 years. There is a deficit of nearly $2,000,000 in the revenues of Canada for the last fiscal y'ear. Prof. Hermann von Helmholtz, the distinguished German physiologist and scientist, died in Berlin, aged 74 years. Muley Mohammed, the eldest son oi the late sultan of Morocco, was proclaimed emperor by the rebel tribes of the south. Ten persons were killed and twenty injured by a railway collision on the Paris am) Cologne road at Apilly, France. Twf.nty-onf. laborers were killed in Samara, Russia, by eight farmers in order to secure the wages that had been paid them. It was reported that the Chinese forces were cornered in northern Corea without supplies and were killing their ponies for food.

LATER. The crowning event at Pittsburgh of the twenty-eighth national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic was the parade of the old soldiers and sailors. Thirty five thousand veterans marched over a route 3 miles long and 500,000 people cheered the marchers. Dr. Swayze B. L. Merrill dropped dead in the Illinois Central depot in Chicago from heart disease. Thomas Osborn and Marcus Murphy quarreled over hogs at Polkville, Ky., and killed each other. Mr. and Mrs. Orson Higgins were killed and a little girl fatally injured by a train at Putnam, N. Y. By a large majority the New York constitutional convention struck out the $5,000 limitation which may be recovered in case of death by accident. W. F. Bheckman, a farmer, killed his wife and Rol ert King, his stepson, at Rosebury, Ore. Family quarrels led to the crime. Don Pio Pico, the last Mexican governor of California, died at Los Angeles, aged 04 years. Peter Jackson refused to sign articles for a fight with Corbett before the Sioux City (la.) club, and has drawn down his stake money. y Heavy rains have benefited corn and vegetation generally according to United States weather bureau reports. Two masked highwaymen held up a stage coach near Phoenix, Ari., and relieved the passengers of their valuables and SSOO in money. \V. D. Pinkston, secretary-treasurer of the Western Iron Works company of Butte, Mont., is $13,000 short. Tiie suitan of Turkey lias contributed 300 Turkish pounds to the fund for the relief of the W isconsin and Minnesota forest fire sufferers. Five valuable imported stallions owned by M. W. Dunham were killed by lightning at Wayne, 111.

War between the cattle and sheep men has again broken out in Colorado. Three thousand sheep were driven over a cliff near Grand Junction and a herder was fatally injured. At the third annual meeting in Kansas City of the Concatenated Order of Hoo-1100 William E. Barnes, of St. Louis, was elected grand snarlc. The populists of New York met at : Saratoga and nominated Charles B. | Matthews, oi Buffalo, for governor. ! r ev. I)r. Charles S. Pomeroy, for twenty-one years pastor of the Second Presbyterian church in Cleveland, j dropped dead in his home. He was 60 years old. j