People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1894 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important intelligence From All Parts. DOMESTIC. Alin dethroned Nancy Hanks as queen of the trotting- turf by reeling off a mile in 2:03% at Galesburg, 111. Robert Clemens and James Hullen fought a duel with knives at BlackTille, Ga., and both were mortally •wounded. Supervising Architect O’Rourke has resigned, in obedience to the request of Secretary Carlisle. A message was signaled by heliograph from Mount Uncompahgre, Col., to Mount Ellen, Utah, 183 miles, breaking all records. A resolution favoring retirement of United States bonds as a basis of circulation was adopted by the Nebraska Bankers’ association. Electric lines and bicycles have reduced the average value of horses in the United States from 25 to 50 per cent.

Wilson Woodley, one of the conspirators in the Grant assassination, was hanged at Montgomery, Ala. L. C. Weir, of Cincinnati, was elected president of the Adams Express company at a meeting of the board of directors in New York. John Poynter was hanged at Fort Smith, Ark., for murdering William Bolding and Ed von der Ver on December 25, 1891, in the Indian country. It was claimed that adventurers were destroying all the animals in Alaska by the indiscriminate use of poison. At Galesburg, 111., Directly paced a mile in 2:07%, reducing the 2-year-old record from 2:09. The United States veterinary convention at Philadelphia condemned the docking of horses tails. Industrious hammering by bears forced December wheat options in New Y'ork to 58% cents, a new low record. The ready-made clothing industry in Boston was paralyzed by a strike of the operatives, involving 5,500 employes. The locomotive fiiemen in convention at Harrisburg, Pa., agreed not to strike as long as contracts were not violated. It was discovered that the present tariff law makes no provision for a duty upon preserved fruits. Bishop Maes suspended the Catholic young men’s institute of Covington, Ky., for dispensing beer at a recent picnic. Geobge Schmoub was hanged in the jail at Pittsburgh, Pa., for murdering his wife and two children.

New York physicians were puzzled over the case of a woman weighing ninety-eight pounds, but who could not be lifted against her will. The Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows in session at Chattanooga decided to admit women to the order, The Reaves Warehouse company at Savannah. Ga., failed for $300,000. There were 212 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 21st, against 207 the week previous and 321 in the corresponding time in 1893. William Ledbetter, a farmer, and J. H. Clayton, an engineer, living near St. Clair, Mo., were arrested for counterfeiting silver dollars. Edmonia Anderson and Irene Washington, two octoroons, fought a duel with knives at Swift, Ala., and both were killed The New York constitutional contention adopted a civil service amendment recommending old soldiers for office. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 21st aggregated $900,287,045, against $853,263,145 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1893, was 12.0. A train struck a buggy at London, O., and Mrs. H. L. Jewell, of Greeley Col., was killed, and Mabel and Helen Stutz were fatally injured. Charles E. Norris, wanted at Pearsall, Tex., for a murder committed ten years ago, was arrested in Chicago. A company has been incorporated at Columbus, O., to build an electric road from Pittsburgh to Chicago and to furnish heat and light to towns along the line.

A cyclone which swept northern lowa and southern Minnesota killed two persons at Emmetsburgh, la., and three at Leroy, Minn. Dodge Center and Lowther, in Minnesota, were devastated. C. A. Jones, a La Grange (Ind.) business man convicted of assault on a little girl, was found dead in his cell from poison. C. H. Blakely, of Chicago, was elected president of the United Typothetee at the Philadelphia meeting. Caving of the earth from some unknown cause created great excitement among farmers in the vicinity of Wichita, Kan.

Francis M. Loggan, aged 30, a firebng and proud of it, went to the state penitentiary from Kansas City, Mo., for five years for setting fire to the yards of the Kansas City Lumber company. He volunteered the statement that he had been causing big fires in aU parts of the United States and Canada for many years.

Bkeckinbidge’s son attempted to pick a quarrel with Judge Kinkead at Lexington, Ky., and made an attack with a knife on a former friend who had supported Owens. The percentages of the baseball dubs in the national league lor the week ended on the 23d were: Baltimore. .689; New York, .659; Boston, -«86; Philadelphia, .579; Brooklyn, -***; .Cleveland, .520: Pittsburgh, .492; Chicago 426, Cincinnati,'* .415; St. Louis, .404; Washington, .352; Louisville, .282.

The Commercial bank at Weeping Water, Neb., closed its doors with deposits of $26,000 and $39,000 in loans. A rain and hailstorm did great damage throughout central lowa. At Knoxville the storm was especially severe. John and Jasper Atkins (white) were hanged at Winnesboro, S. C., for the murder of William Camp. Judge Ariel Standish Thurston, of Elmira, N. Y., a supreme court judge, fell downstairs and broke his neck at Braddoclc, Pa. Colorado’s gold output for 1894 will reach $12,000,000, the largest in its history. It is hoped to mine $25,000,000 in 1895. Flames that started on a wharf destroyed property worth $1,500,000 in Portland, Ore., and three men were supposed to have been burned to death. Sandow failed to lift Airs. Abbott, the ninety-eight-pound woman who has astonished New York physicians with her peculiar power. Delegates from the drought-strick-en section of Nebraska met at North Platte to devise means for assisting the destitute.

Three negroes who had murdered a merchant at McGhee, Ark., were taken from the sheriff and hanged to a telegraph pole. Mrs. B. F. Pierce, of Rock Springs, W’yo., claims to be a daughter of Jay Gould by a woman whom he married in 1853 and from whom he was never divorced. A train on the Midland division of the Grand Trunk railway was derailed between Port Hope and’Lindsay, Ont., and Engineer Johnston, Fireman Malone and Brakeman Greenbury were killed. The Grand View hotel at Atlantic Highlands, N. J., was burned, the loss being SIOO,OOO. Seventy persons are known to have lost their lives in the cyclone which swept northern lowa and southern Minnesota, while the property damage was enormous. By a clause adopted by the New Y’ork constitutional convention bookmaking is to be prohibited in the state. Gilbert Munz was killed and two other men fatally injured in a Big Four train wreck near Dayton. O. Suffrage women of Topeka, Kan., to the number of 100 have agreed to reform woman’s costume by wearing Turkish trousers.

The Park opera house, the chief amusement resort in Erie, Pa., for forty years, was burned, entailing a loss of nearly SIOO,OOO. A five-story business block was destroyed by fire at St. Louis, causing a loss of $200,000. Five firemen were injured. The name of the post office at Appomattox, where Lee surrendered, has been changed to Surrender. Runaway horses dashed into the family of Daniel Stevenson at Clearfield, la., killing two children and fatally injuring the father. Five acres of ground sunk at Duryea, Pa., and twenty-six dwelling houses were wrecked. Hosea C. Buckley, aged 73, a veteran of the Mexican war, was killed at Muncie, Ind., by a horse kicking him in his breast.

By the capsizing of a boat in the Ohio river at Pomeroy, 0., David Nutter, Robert Thompson, Daniel Ilarrigan, Ment Chester and Ernest Thomas were drowned; all colored and single. 'lhe visible supply of grain in the United States on the 24th was: Wheat, 70,189,000 bushels; corn, 4,193,000 bushels; oats, 7,844,000 bushels; rye, 319,000 bushels; barley, 1,736,000 bushels. Plimmer and Murphy fought twentyfive rounds to a draw at New Orleans. The former had the better of the encounter. William H. Friday, grand exalted ruler, suspended the charters of seven lodges of Elks for holding sessions on Sunday. In court at Los Angeles, Cal., Gallagher and Buchanan, American Railway union strikers, were sentenced to eight months’imprisonment and a fine of 8500 for intimidating nonunion workmen The Chicago Great Western railway is said to contemplate the laying of a second track through most of Illinois. A “Jack the Ripper” has appeared at Amras, Austrian Tyrol. The bodies of two women, horribly mutilated, have been found.

Ralph Con nr, in, an 18-year-old boy given to dime novel reading, robbed a Mount Sterling (Ill.) bank in true bandit style, but was captured by citizens. On the expiration of his term in congress Col. Breckinridge will resume the practice of law in Lexington, Ky. One laborer was killed and four others injured by a cave-in while excavating for a wall in Philadelphia. Cyclist Searle failed to lower the road record between Chicago and New York, taking eight days and three hours to complete the journey. The United States gunboat Yorktown arrived at the Mare island navy yard, California, from Behring sea. Toledo (O.) capitalists have projected a canal from that city to Chicago, and engineers are engaged in making surveys. Eight mines located on the “Columbia vein,” one of the greatest gold lodes of Colorado, were sold for $4,000,000. The city car works at Erie, Pa., covering sixteen acres and valued at $200,000, were burned by incendiaries. The errand of H. A. Widemann, of Honolulu, to this country is said to be to commence a damage suit against the United States on behalf of the exqueen of ifhwaii. She w r ants $200,000. Jim Allen, a full-blooded Choctaw Indian, was shot for murder a. the Pushmahata court grounds in Indian territory.

George Hamlin, an employe In the salt works at Lyons, Kan., was buried beneath a great quantity of fine salt and smothered before he could be rescued. St. Mary’s Roman Catholic college at Oakland, Cal., was burned, the loss being $200,000. ’lhe signal station on the summit of Pike’s Peak is to be abandoned by the weather bureau.

Charles F. Wilson will be electrocuted at the Auburn (N. Y.) state prison during the week beginning November 6 for participation in the murder of Detective James Harvey. At Harrisburg, Pa., Judge McPherson ruled that raffles were gambling and illegal.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Blakely Durant, better known as “Old Shady,” who was the body servant of Gen. Sherman during the war, died at Grand Forks, N. D. Ohio democrats in convention at Columbus nominated Milton Turner for secretary' of state and J. D. Ermiston for supreme court judge. The plat form endorses the administration of the president, declares protection a fraud, and favors the unlimited coinage of silver at the legal ratio of 16 to 1 and with equal legal tender power. Tillmanitks were in the majority in the South Carolina democratic convention at Columbia and John ti. Evans was nominated for governor.

Milton F. Jordan, of Barry county, democratic nominee for lieutenant governor of Michigan, has declined. The following nominations for congress were made: Minnesota, Third district, J. P. Heatwole (rep.). Nebraska, First district, Mayor Weir (dem.). Tennessee, Fourth district, J. H. Denton (rep.). Pennsylvania, First district, I). J. Callahan (dem.); Second, Max Herzburg (dem.); Third, J. P. McCullen (dem.); Fourth, G. Muller (dem.); Fifth, David Moffet (dem.); Twentieth, T. J. Burke (dem.). Mme. Amy Fursch-Madi, the noted opera singer, died in Warrenville, N. J. She was about 50 years old. The republicans of the First district of Michigan nominated John B. Corliss for congress, and W. C. Robinson was nominated by the populists in the Third district of Alabama. The democrats of the Eleventh Mississippi district nominated J. G. Spencer for congress on the 1,150 th ballot. In the Sixth Illinois district the republicans nominated E. D. Cooke. The democratic committee of the Ashland district met at Frankfort, Ky., and declared William C. Owens the nominee for congress by a plurality of 255 votes.

James Anderson, grand scribe of the Ohio odd fellows, died at Chattanooga, Tenn., while attending the sovereign grand lodge meeting. Herbert M. Kinsley, the famous Chicago, caterer.died in New York from the effects of a surgical operation. He was 63 years old. FOREIGN. Gen. William Booth, who founded the Salvation Army, arrived at St. Johns, N. F. He will visit all large cities in Canada and the United States during the next six months. Nineteen Japanese and fourteen Chinese warships took part in a battle in alu bay, and 2,500 men were killed or drowned. Natives of Madagascar expect war with France and are actively engaged in arming and fortifying themselves. Spain is endeavoring to negotiate a new reciprocal treaty with the United States. The United States consul at Hamburg has been instructed to detain all immigrants to America from East and West Prussia, Posen and Silicia during the prevalence of cholera in those districts. Dr. Rafael Nunez, president of tha republic of Colombia, died at Colon of gastric fever. American exhibitors at the Antwerp exposition were awarded seven grand prizes, ten diplomas and ninety-one gold, silver and bronze medals.

LATER. A storm caused a flood in the Akita and Iwate prefectures in Japan, and over 300 persons were drowned and more than 15,000 houses were destroyed. On her trial trip the new battleship Maine, which was built by the government, made 17.55 knots per hour. Two hotels, eight stores, the post office and the telegraph office at Cape Vincent, N. Y., were burned, causing a loss of 8150,000. Four men were killed and four injured by the blowing up of the boiler of a thrashing engine near Crystal, N. D. In convention at New Haven Lieut. Gov. Ernest W. Cady was nominated for governor by the Connecticut democrats. An unknown man entered the office of County Treasurer Scott at Sherman, Tex., knocked him senseless and robbed the safe of more than 81,000. James P. Caven, general freight and passenger agent of the Valley road, was found murdered in Cleveland, presumably by robbers. Chinese agents in Ern-ope and America were instructed to purchase all available war vessels.

New York democrats met at Saratoga. On taking the chair Senator Hill urged burial of all factional differences. Nominations were postponed for one day. Douglas Luce, who was born in 1* 95 and had lived under every president of the United States, died at Urbana, O. The whaling steamship Falcon reached Philadelphia with most of the members of the Peary arctic expedition on board. Montana democrats in session at Helena nominated L. A. Luce for associate justice of the supreme court The resolutions favor tariff reform, the election of senators by popular vote and the unconditional free coinage of silver. A waterspout in the village of Suchil, in the mountains of Durango, Mexico, carried away a woodchoppers’ camp of ten families and all were drowned. Brazil has given notice of the abrogation Of the reciprocity treaty with the United States. The Westerh league baseball season closed, Sioux City securing the pennant. The clubs stood as follows: Sioux City, .587 per cent.; Toledo, .553; Kansas City, .540; Minneapolis, .500; Grand Rapids, .492; Indianapolis. .472; Detroit, .448; Milwaukee, .398.