People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1894 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. DOMESTIC. Masked men tarred and feathered Rev. Charles Clancey, of Frontier, Mich., and then rolled him down a ateep bill. Joseph Beciiteliieimer and his wife received probably fatal injuries in a runaway accident near Young America, Ind. The directors of the Western Union Telegraph company have declared the regular quarterly dividend of per cent, payable October 1. On the Terre Haute (Ind.) track Alix trotted a mile in 2:04, equaling the world’s record of Nancy Hanks. Carbonate lowered the 2-year-old record to 2:10. The drought has left an epidemic of typhoid fever through all the Upper Miami valley in Ohio. At Piqua in one day eleven corpses were awaiting burial.

Buck Harlan, a notorious counterfeiter, was captured by secret service men near Shelbyville, Ind. At Terre Haute, Ind., Fantasy lowered the record for 4-year-old mares, trotting the mile in 2:06, beating her own time one second. William Enochs, of Martinsville, Ind., was driven from his home by •white caps for alleged cruelty to his wife. The Norwegian steamship Forbuna, from Java, landed in Philapelphia Arthnr Vincent, a New York boy, who had circled the globe without a cent of money. He left New York two years ago at the age of 14. Kansas farmers were selling their hogs for transportation charges to market, having nothing to feed them. The taking of testimony was completed in the trial at Chicago of President Debs and other officers of the American Railway union. The arguments will be made on September 25. United States engineers were considering the plan of connecting Lake Superior with the Mississippi river by a canal.

Six bicycle records were broken at Springfield, Mass. Titus rode 26 miles against time, making twenty new marks. Col. Thomas G. Lawler, of Rockford, 111., was elected commander in chief of the G. A. R. at the Pittsburgh encampment • The Daughters of Veterans elected Mrs. Ellen M. Walker, of Worcester, Mass., as president, and the Woman’s Relief Corps selected as president Mrs. Emma R. Wallace, of Chicago. In a suit at Bloomington, 111., Judge Tipton ruled that druggists, dry goods and grocery dealers were not compelled to sell to colored people. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Fetters were Rilled at Edon. 0., by a Wabash train an hour after their wedding. Over thirty buildings were consumed by fire in ban Francisco, the loss being SIOO,OOO. The custom of publishing in newspapers the list of unclaimed letters at postoffices has been abandoned, cons.s having failed to make a sufficient appropriation for the purpose. H. B. Morgan, postmaster at Peoria. 111., refused to deliver out-of-town newspapers not bearing postage of a cent a copy. Official returns of the Arkansas state election held September 3 show thatover one-half of the counties in the state vuted against liquor license. Statistics compiled by the bureau of statistics show that during August the exports of breadstuffs amounted to against 822,630,348 a year ago, and for the eight months ending August lasrt to 885,348,714, against $129,361,102 for the corresponding period of 1893. Bernard Toker was shot and killed at Connellsvville, Pa., and bis wife Mary fatally wounded by Franz Morris, a 13-year-old boy that they had befriended. The lad stole 813 and escaped.

The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 14th aggregated $853,263,145, against $794,382,538 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1893, was 7.8. Sam Johnson, a 21-year-old negro, sold himself to Col. Stark Oliver at Selma, Ala., for 860. Thesis were 207 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 14th, against 215 the week previous and 814 in the corresponding time in 1893. The forest fires in Wisconsin were extinguished by the first heavy rain that has fallen since June. James Barrett was hanged at Eddy, 11. M., for the murder of John Holihan at Seven Rivers. Enoch Davis, who killed his wife, was shot at Lehi, Utah, he having chosen that mode of execution in preference to hanging. At Terre Haute, Ind., Robert J. paced a mile in 2:01%, breaking all records. Carbonate put the 2-year-old mark at 2:09, and John R. Gentry cut thd stallion record to 2:03% in a race. In accordance with a recently enacted law Judge Lippincott, of Jersey City, refused to receive a plea of guilty made by a murderer. Thomas Taylor, 33 years of age, killed bis wife, who was 25 years old, in Washington by shooting her and then shot himself. Jealousy was the cause. A bottle of pop exploded at St. Joseph, Mo,, and put out the eyes of William Gardner, aged .3 years. Adajj Fokepaugh's circus stranded at Bluff ton, 0., on account of no funds to pay employes. While planting flowers in a cemetery at Homeworth, 0., a tombstone fell oo Susan Johnson, an aged woman, Inflicting fatal injuries.

The first snow of the season fell at Omaha, Neb. At Neligh, Neb., Barrett Scott was convicted of embezzling. §32,000 while treasurer of Holt county. Fred Miller, 70 years old, while drunk fatally stabbed his wife at Kenton, 0., and then drowned himself in a well. In a quarrel over a line fence at North port, Ala., John and Alexander Tyler (brothers) killed each pther. Two new counterfeits are in circulation, one being a 810 silver certificate, check letter A, series 1886, and the other is a 85 note of the First national bank of Cincinnati. Scranton, Pa., suffered a loss of $250,000 by a blaze in the business district. The percentages of the baseball clubs in the national league tor the week ended on the 15th were: Baltimore, .684; New York, .653; Boston, .647; Philadelphia, .576; Brooklyn, .546; Cleveland, .513; Pittsburgh, .492; Chicago, 438, Cincinnati, .425; St. Louis, .400; Washington, .347; Louisville. .277.

M. L. Davis, of Little Rock, Ark., tendered his resignation as American consul at Merida, Yucatan. Leonard Blodgett, of Luzerne, N. Y., aged 55, attempted to assault a girl and fatally wounded both her parents. A windstorm did great damage at Niagara Falls and caused the suspension bridge to sway like a cradle. George Case won the tennis championship of.lowa. Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska by defeating J. W. Beckwith at Kansas City. In a decision at Des Moines, la.. Judge Spurrier held the mulct liquor law to be constitutional. At the close of the Adventist camp meeting in Emporia, Kan., 100 converts were baptized in the Cottonwood river. During a dance in Philadelphia Samuel A. Kilpatrick, rendered insane by jealousy, killed his wife and fatally wounded her partner. Fifteen persons were injured, several fatally, in a runaway accident near Iroudale, 0.. caused by the raising of an umbrella. While passengers were being transferred past a wreck at Hammond, Wis.; an oil tank exploded and twelve were seriously burned. Andrew Bee, who recognized Jefferson Davis when the latter was escaping, died at his home in Martin, Allegan county, Mich. W ll. liam BLANFORD,an alleged forger of Clinton, Ind., was arrested after a search of two years. The only son of Count Vincent Mercader, owner of vast estates near Vienna, Austria, was found emploj'ed in Carnegie’s mills at Braddock. Pa,

At Portland, Ore., J. W. Stanegels, a civil engineer, killed Mrs. Mabel Calvin and committed suicide. Jealousy was the cause. The Mutual Benefit Life Association of America closed its doors under orders of the insurance department of New York state. Beverly Adams, a negro, wa§ hanged at Hopkinsville, Ky., for murder. J. L. Goodman and B. Y. Armstrong, Gatesville (Tex,) editors, shot each other to death in a street duel. Thirteen men were indicted by the grand jury for complicity in the recent lynching of six negroes near Millington, Tenn. The new Planters’ house in St. Louis was thrown open to the public. The hotel cost over 81,900.000. Elias A. Watson, a colored postal clerk, was arrested in Chicago for rifling letters. Six years ago he found 890,000 in a hotel bathroom and returned it to its owner. The visible supply of grain in the United States on the 17th was: Wheat, 69,214,000 bushels; corn, 4,110,000 bushels; oats, 8,221,000 bushels; rye, 312,000 bushels; barley, 1,628,000 bushels. Fire destroyed the mattress factory of Stumpp & Co. in Washington and five employes perished in the flames. Police Justice Cooney, of Dubuque, la., was attacked and terribly beaten by a prisoner on whom he had just passed sentence. The world’s bicycle record, 12:39, in a 5-mile competition road race was broken in Chicago by Tracy Holmes, who ran over the course in 12:30. One man was killed and three fatally injured by the premature explosion of a blast at a colliery at Hazleton, Pa. OAt Pittsburgh Harry C. Tyler, of Springfield, Mass., lowered the mile bicycle record for a quarter-mile track to 2:03.

An order for the transfer of more than half the regiments of the army to new posts was issued by Gen. Schofield. Unknown persons entered the circuit courtroom at Owensboro, Ky.,and every indictment found at the recent term of court was stolen and torn to fragments. Since the inauguration of the present administration at Washington 1,597,283 silver dollars have been coined. A hurricane swept through the towns of Mining and Jennings, in Oklahoma, and nearly every house in both towns was laid low and a voung woman and two children were killed and others wounded. At North Enid, 0. T., the Arlington hotel and eight of the most substantial business buildings were destroyed by an incendiary fire. The seventieth annual session of the sovereign grand lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows convened at Chattanooga, Tenn.