People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1894 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. -------------------- DOMESTIC. THE schooner Ironton and the steamer Ohio collided on Lake Huron and both went to the bottom. Five of the crew of the Ironton were drowned. D. B. HUBBARD, an attorney of Dorchester, Mass., who went to Chicago to seek a reconciliation with his wife, found her walking with Frank Garsuch and shot both of them. IN the team race at Columbus, O. Rose Leaf and Sally Simmons won, reducing the record for a mile trot to 2:15¼. LOUIS MILLER, of Cincinnati, murdered his wife and then killed himself. He was drunk and jealous, and their two daughters witnessed the double tragedy. JASPER LAYMAN, an Alabama negro, was arranging for the exodus of 500 negroes from the neighborhood of Mobile, Ala., to Liberia. REPRESENTATIVES of trust companies of Pennsylvania met at Harrisburg and organized a state association. CAPT. HENRY HOWGATE, formerly chief of the weather bureau in Washington, was arrested in New York for a forgery committed in 1879. THE labor commission investigating the strike at Chicago have agreed upon a report to be submitted to the president. Sheriff Burns, of San Pete county. Utah, was shot and killed by two men he was attempting to arrest. Andrew J. Johnson, of Chicago, and C. Dewitt Goodnew, of Brooklyn, students at Cornell university, were drowned in Cayuga lake, New York. President Cleveland lias issued pardons for all Mormon polygamists who have complied with the laws. Forest fires devastated the southern eastern portions of Crow Wing county, Minn., destroying farm property.

Speaking at the Unitarian conference at Saratoga, Father Connerty, a Catholic, urged union of all churches on temperance. Methodists of Indiana, after agitatIng the subject for eighteen years, have decided to abolish the line dividing them. Louis E. Mathews, ex-deputy county clerk of Milwaukee, took his life. He is said to have lost heavily in speculation. Four sons in the family of Albert Thomas, of Martinsville. Ind., have bled to death, being afflicted with hemophilia. Benjamin Thornton (colored) secured a mandamus against a school superintendent who forbade his child to attend a certain school. The whaling schooner Nicoline reached Han Francisco from Fox Island, Alaska, bringing nearly 15,000 pounds of whalebone, bear and otter skins and 800 pounds of ivory. Conductor James Fitzgerald and Daniel Thompson, a colored brakeman, were killed and four other members of a train crew seriously injured in a freight wreck on the Mobile & Ohio, near Columbus, Miss. Tom Moore and Eugene Fulkes (white) were executed at Paris, Tex., for murders committed in the Indian territory. Thebe were 285 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 29th, against 212 the week previous and 884 in the corresponding time in 1898. The Soctety of Friends, in annual session at Richmond, Ind., declared themselves opposed to secret societies. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 29th aggregated $825,401,482, against $900,287,045 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1898, was 7.9. Two miners and two laborers were killed by a fall of rock in the Northwest colliery at Scranton, Pa. The long fight between the miners and coal operators at Massillon, 0., was settled by both parties agreeing to aubmlt their differences to arbitration under the state law. A Mexican named Moderlcos died at Ingram, Tex., who, his, relatives asaert most positively, was 150 ydars old. He had been married five times, marrying his first wife 100 years ago. He iad three grown sons in the war of 1812.

According to the trade reviews, business is gaining in activity, though prices of grain, cotton, iron, sugar and coffee are lower. In*, speech at Denver Gen. James fi. Clarkson declared that 70 per cent. 4>i the people of the United States favored free silver. Christian Endkavorites will hold their convention in 1895 at Boston instead of San Francisco, because of inability to secure special rates. The jury in the case of the state of Indian* against John W. Paris, on trial for alleged complicity in the 'wrecking of the Greentown bank, tailed to agree. Six men were arrested at Terre Haute, Ind., for oansing the wreck on the Big Four at Fontanet during the ■trike. * The Lucania again broke the westbound ooean record, making the run from Queenstown in 6 days 7 hours and 48 minutes. At a mass meeting of undergraduates of Princeton college it was voted to abolish hazing in all its Jtrtns. ■ The wagon wheel manufacturers of the west fdinned a distributing company in which each will hold sto ck according to the value of his plant Louis Dicket and James Powell «ere fatally injured and two other ■*an were seriously hurt by an accidental explosion Of a dynamite blast •» Atchison. Kan.

In a rao- against time at San Jose, Cal., Abdcll lowered the yearling trotting record to 2:23, a cut of threefourtks of a second. Fifty indictments were voted against Chicago gamblers by a grand jury. The New York constitutional convention adopted the neiv constitution as reported from committee of the whole. At the close of the nineteenth season of the National Baseball league the clubs stood in the following order: Baltimore, .695 percent-; New York, .667; Boston, .629; Philadelphia. .559 Brooklyn, .534; Cleveland. .527; Pittsburgh, .500; Chicago 482; St. Louis, .424; Cincinnati. .419; Washington, .341; Louisville. .280. Advices from Pittsburgh, Pa., say that all the tin-plate plants in the country were closed down, owing to a wide difference between the manufacturers and the workers on the subject of wages. R. L. Peace and Ulysses Aaram fought a duel at Canton, Ga.. for the hand of a neighbor’s daughter and killed each other.

The grand jury completed its investigation of gambling in Chicago and returned man3' indictments, including thirty property owners. Joseph Cunningham, sexton of an Episcopal church in St Louis, died from eating poisoned lunch, and the organist was also poisoned and was dying. Creamery men of Minnesota have organized and will constitute a board of trade for the sale of their products. Four miners who were entombed fifty-five hours without food by a cavein at Carbondale, Pa., were rescued. Notice has been given the government officials of the ratification by China of the naw treaty between the countries. Five tramps were killed and two injured by a wreck on the Chicago & Northwestern road Dear Woodstock.lll. An Lnglish syndicate has been given options on all the paper and pulp mills in the Fox river valley in Wisconsin. They are valued at $10,000,000. Adolph llukgan and John Barrett, inmates of the Ohio soldiers’ home, were killed by highwaymen near Dayton for their money. Ai unmicotDc, 0., ./;u ered the world’s mile pacing record from 2:01% to 1:59%, witli a running mate.

Through the careless driving of Louis Scbarf while drunk his wife ana five children and Mary Roskus, his sister-in-law. were drowned in the Minnesota river at Chaska. Unknown miscreants wrecked a Wabash train at Maumee, 0., and Engineer F. N. Smith was killed and Fireman A. H. Day fatally hurt. Mill owners and operatives at Fall River, Mass., held a conference, but failed to settle the strike involving 40,000 persons. H.vow fell in thirty counties of northern Minnesota, amounting in spme places to a depth of three inches. By the collision of a Washington express train with a runaway engine in Philadelphia many passengers were injured.

Heavy rains in California damaged the raisin crop 1100,000. Ihe public debt statement issued on the Ist showed that the debt increased $8,052,701 during the month of Keptemher. The cash balance in the treasury was $119,919,719. The total debt, less the cash balance iu the treasury, amounts to $897,646,617. W. M. Brelkenridoe and Frank A. Padgett left Chicago on a two years’ bicycle trip around the world. During September the coinage of gold at the various mints amounted to $50,083,692, and of silver $8,765,870, of which $672,200 were standard dollars. Berry Rich, a farmer in Marion county, Ky., was taken from his home by white caps and hanged because barns and houses had been fired in the vicinity. Fob two years C. M. Fletcher was said to have been selling to Chicagoans Missouri property to which ho had no title.

Near Perry, O. T., nine members of a hunting party were injured by the explosion of a package of powder and would die. 'lUnited States circuit court of appeals in Chicago overruled the portion of Judge Jenkins’ injunctional order prohibiting Northern Pacific employes from striking. The Mirror Lake house, a summer hotel at Saranac, N. Y., was destroyed by fire, the loss being $150,000. Three men held up a Southern Pacific train in'Arizona and robbed the express, car of SSOO. One was afterward captured. Within three months thirty-seven stills have been destroyed and 125 moonshiners captured by United States officers in the Big Sandy valley in Kentucky.

Fearing burglars Wesley Adamson, a Brazil (Ind.) farmer, secreted S2OO in a stove. His wife started a fire and the money was burned. Four of the six men under arrest for wrecking a train at Fontanet, Ind., during the strike have confessed. The visible supply of grain in the United States on the Ist was: Wheat, 71,431,000 bushels; corn, 4,805,000 bushels; oats, 8,234,000 bushels; rye, 880,000 bushels; barley, 2,265,000 bushels. The First national bank of Fayetteville, N. Y., closed its doors. The government receipts during the first three months of the current fiscal year were $97,848,174, and the expenditures were $98,628,287. The house of B. B. Pierce at Wilmot, Wis., was burned, and his three Bons and a daughter of John Frank perished in the flames.

At Dorchester, Neb., Joseph Krob shot and killed Lizzie Brabeck and then killed himself. He asked her to marry him and she refused. Two passenger trains collided at a crossing at Sunbury, Pjl, and all the passengers were shaken up and ten severely injured. H. a Haveveyer and J. E. Searles, °V h * trust, were indict d for refusing to answer questions put by tbe senate investigating committee.

Some thirty substantial buildings a* Wichita, Kan., besides innumerable barns and outhouses, were demolished or injured in a greater or less degree by a tornado and two men were killed. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Launt Thompson, the American sculptor, died at the state hospital in Middletown. N. Y. Democratic bolters in the Omaha convention succeeded in having their ticket accepted by the secretary of state. F. W. Porter, auditor for the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific road for a number of years, died of apoplexy while in CincinnatL Rev. S. B. Newman, an Austin (Ill.) pastor who is 82 years old. secured a license to wed Annie Oilman, who is but 20. The following nominations for congress were made: Ofiio, Third district, Paul J. Sorg idem.) renominated. Wisconsin, Fourth district, D. B. Rose (dem.). New York, Nineteenth district, Charles D. Haines (dem.) renominated. Connecticut, First district, E. 8. Henry (rep.); Second, N. D. Perry (rep.).

It was reported that Judge Gaynor had declined the nomination for judge of the court of appeals offered him by the New York democratic convention. It was said that the independent democracy of New York had resolved to put up an anti-Hill ticket in the field. Gen. A. M. West, candidate for vice president of the United States in 1884 on the greenback-labor ticket with Gen. B. F. Butler, died at Holly Springs, Miss., aged 70 years. Mrs. Catherine Clurich died at Mus* catine, la., aged 108 years. Thomas O. Rogers, a brother-in-law of Kit Carson, died at Clayton, N. M. He was a former guide for Gen. Fremonb ■Gov. McKinlev opened the republican and Senator "Vest the democratic campaign in Missouri, the former speaking at St. Louis, the latter at Kansas City. Mrs. Katherine Medill, wife of Joseph Medill, editor of the Chicago Tribune, died at Elmhurst from consumption, aged 63 years. The republicans of the Thirteenth Ohio district nominator! S R. Harris for congress and in the Fourteenth district the democrats nominated Thomas Y r . McCray.

FOREIGN. Several building, including two hotels, burned at Nanaimo, B. C., with a loss of 8100,00 Q. Two men were burned to death and two others and a little girl were badly injured. Austria’s ministers to the United States and Brazil will exchange places, in accordance with an order of the government. Juan Udarez, a City of Mexico banker, committed suicide by hanging himself from a balconv. The Crown Point color printing works at Leeds, England, were destroyed by fire, causing a loss of 85,000,000. Several of the leaders of the exqueen’s cause in Hawaii have taken the oath of allegiance to the republic. It was said that 36,000 Japanese troops were landed on the Shen-Tung coast of China. A waterspout near Valencia, in Venezuela, killed more than 150 persons and caused a loss in crops of $400,* 000. By the overflowing of rivers in Cuba 200 persons lost their lives, and prop* erty was damaged to the extent of $4,000,000.

LATER. Nine persons were killed and property worth $1,000,000 destroyed by a cyclone at Little Rock, Ark. The main portion of the business center of the City was practically in ruins. Six persons were badly injured in a reight train wreck at Mansfield, 0., and twenty ears were demolished. The total money circulation of the country was placed at $1,655,038,982 a per capita of $34.07, against $1,596,049,988 October 1, 1893. Trotting queen Alix, 2:03%, and trotting king Directum, 2:05%, have been matched to race for $2,500 a side. Near Pawnee, Neb., a cyclone killed John Nelson’s 9-year-old girl and seriously injured five other members of of tiie family. Solly Smith and Frank Erne fought a terrific ten-round battle, ending in a draw, at Buffalo, N. Y. The republicans of South Carolina will not nominate a state ticket, but candidates will run in each congressional district. Shanghai dispatches intimate that the emperor of China may be deposed in favor of Prince Kung’s son. Mrs. M. C. Giles, of Belvidere, 111., went to bed with good eyes and woke up in the morning totally blind. The physicians were baffled. .The republicans made great gains in the municipal elections throughout Connecticut. A stage running between Yerka and Fort Jones, Cal., was held up by a lone highwayman, who stole the treasure box. Prof. Vincennes Botta, the celebrated linguist, fell three stories from his residence in New York, sustaining fatal injuries.

Emma Jacobs, of Lamont, la., aged 7 years, saved a Chicago Great Western train from being wrecked on a burned bridge. Martin Irons, once a famous labor leader, was in jail at Fort Worth, Tex,, charged with assaulting a little girl. Champion Corbett issued a challenge in which he agreed to meet all corner* in the prize ring next July, one each night until all were disposed of. A monument to Maj. B. F. Stephenson, founder of the Grand Army of the Republic, was dedicated at Petersburg, 111. William Pugh, of Ohio, has been appointed superintendent of income tax collections by Secretary Carlisle. Post office department officials in Washington forbid a contemplated Sunday parade of letter carrier* in Chieago.