People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1894 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. DOMESTIC. Government returns for October show a slight gain in the percentages of all crops excepting cotton. Fire destroyed the establishments of the Cleveland Foundry company and the Enterprise Desk and Stamping company in Cleveland, the loss being 8125.000. Levi P. Morton has written a letter formally accepting the republican nomination for governor of New York. The annual meeting of the American board of foreign missions commenced in the Congregational church at Madison, Wis. Troop L, the last of the Indian companies, has been disbanded, the government considering them poor soldiers. The twentieth annual convention of the American Banker’s association was opened in Baltimore with 300 members present. Much excitement prevailed at San Pedro, Col., over the loss by drowning of a party of four citizens, including the postmaster. An explosion in a mill at Dexter, Mo., killed three men and seriously wounded another. The killed were brothers named Johnson. The twenty-fifth annual convention of the North American Beekeepers’ association met at St. Joseph, Mo. Twenty-five railroad men, including E. V. Debs, were indicted by the federal grand jury in Milwaukee. The American Debenture company of Chicago, one of the largest concerns of its kind in the country, went into the hands of a receiver with liabilities of 81,500,000.

George Van Taylor, of Detroit, Mich., committed suicide in jail, leaving a letter in which he confessed to having committed twelve murders. At the annual convention of republican league clubs of Illinois, held in Springfield, C. W. Raymond, of Iroquois county, was elected president. The eighteenth annual meeting of the American Humane association convened at Evansville, Ind. An unfinished building in New York was blown down by the wind, killing six persons and injuring thirteen others. Mrs. Miller, wife of Lon Miller, a wealthy farmer near Liberty, 111., and her 10-year-old daughter were killed by robbers. Ames Myson for the murder of Dudley Carrey and Jackson Hicks for the murder of James Preel were hanged at Union Springs, Ala. At an incendiary tenement house fire in Boston two men leaped to death and two others were fatally hurt. The Lakeport stage was held up by a lone bandit near Pieta Station, Cal., and the Wells-Fargo express box stolen. Five men were killed, two fatally hurt and several more seriously burned by a boiler explosion at Shamokin, Pa. Corbett and Fitzsimmons signed articlee to fight after July 1, 1895, at Jacksonville, Fla., fora purse of $41,000 and SIO,OOO a side. The steamer Hartford went upon the rocks near Woodville. N. ¥., and Capt. O’Toole and his crew of six men were lost. Maj. Gen. Schofield, in his annual report to the secretary of war, asks for an increase in the national forces, says state troops are not enough and that the government should be aIL powerful against uprisings. In a pacing race between Robert J. and Joe Patchen at Sioux City, la., the former won three straight heats, making the last one in At the annual session in Evansville, Ind., of the American Humane society J. J. Shortall, of Chicago, was reelected president. Julius Lichtenberg, a Detroit school inspector indicted for receiving a bribe, shot himself fatally. J. J. P. Odell, of Chicago, was elected president of the American Bankers’ association in session at Baltimore. Nathan Green, Elsworth McAfee and William Green perished in a burning hay mow in Mercer county. Furious gales swept Lake Erie and lower Lake Huron, disabling several large boats and injuring a number of sailors.

Charles B. Allen, alias Harry Conway, leader of a gang of bank swindlers, was arrested in Chicago and confessed his crimes. Official estimates of the wheat crop in Ohio place it at 50,852,433 bushels, the largest in the state’s history. The First national bank of Kearney, Neb., suspended because unable to make collections. On account of the failure of the corn crop all the hogs in Nebraska were being shipped into states where feed can be secured. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 12th aggregated $927,428,877, against $999,555,127 the previous week. The increase, compared with the corresponding week in 1693. was 8.9. Negbo Catholics, in national convention at Baltimore, petitioned the president to protect colored men. The report of Commissioner of Pensions Lochren for the fiscal year ended June 80, 1894, shows that the number of pensioners on the rolls at that time was 959,544. The amount paid for pensions during the year was $139,804,461, leaving a balance in the treasury of >25,205,718 of the appropriation. , Thebe were 281 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 12 th, against 219 the week previous and 893 in the corresponding time in 1898. Online paced an exhibition mile at Sioux'City, la., in 2:04, lowering his 4>w» world’s record of 2:07 X.

Gov. Mitchell says he will convene the Florida legislature if necessary to prevent the Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight in that state. A labor parliament will be held in Chicago on November 13, at which the relations of labor and capital will be discussed by leading thinkers from all standpoints with a view to bettering present conditions. The schooner Sea Foam capsized at Shears, in the Delaware bay, and the captain and crew of five men perished. December wheat sold down to 56# cents in New York, the lowest price in the history of the market there. Seven masked robbers held up a fast mail train near Quantico. Va., and rifled the express car and mail pouches, securing probably 850,000. Further advices state that the two bandits who robbed the Overland express near Sacramento, Cal., secured between 850,000 and 875,000. Wholesale grocers of Chicago are leaders in a revolt against the sugar trust which is spreading over the entire country. The will of Richard Smith, the wealthy typefounder, leaves more than $1,000,000 to the city of Philadelphia. G. W. Howard, vice president of the American Railway union, had his pocket picked in Chicago of a book containing forty railroad passes. The federal grand jury at Madison, Wis., found indictments against fiftyeight persons charged with stealing land. Armed tramps took possession of a freight train in Ohio and terrorized the crew and passengers for an hour. Oscab Morton, a wealthy resident of Stanton, Ky., shot and killed Sheriff William Simms as the result of an old feud. A mob took Morton from jail and hanged him. John Joy. who robbed a man of five dollars was’ sentenced to prison for life by a San Francisco judge under the habitual criminal act. The directors of the Washington Park club in Chicago decided to abandon racing, but will maintain the clubhouse.

During a riot among drunken Slavs at Maltby, Pa., a boy was shot dead, two girls fatally wounded and two persons badly hurt. Col. Breckinridge was suspended from communion by the congregation of Mount lloreb (Ky.) Presbyterian church uutil February. T. L. Dixon, an ex-state official of Kansas, made affidavit that Mrs. Mary E. Lease urged him to steal 820,000 from the state. Four members of the American Railway union were arrested for wrecking a Grand Trunk train at Battle Creek, Mich., July 16, whereby one life was lost. Experiments at an Omaha distillery of making spirits from beet sugar molasses proved very successful. Investigation showed that the soldier’s home at Dayton, 0., was haunted by thieves who rob the inmates on pension days. Two young daughters of John N. Scatcherd and Miss Emily Wood, Mrs. Seatcherd’s sister, were killed by an engine at a crossing in Buffalo, N. Y. Chester Hill, an Ohio village, was almost wiped out by fire. Twenty-one persons were seriously injured and property worth 840,000 destroyed by a train collision at New Orleans.

Mrs. Ada Weiner, who shot and killed her husband at San Francisco while he slept, was sentenced to life imprisonment. At Ogden, U. T., De Camp, McConnell and King were found guilty of attempted train wrecking during the A. R. U. strike and King was sentenced to four years and De Camp and McConnell to twelve years each in the penitentiary. Experts discovered that Stark county, 0., had been robbed of $17,000 by dishonest officials. Snow fell in many counties of Pennsylvania to the depth of 8 inches. Frank Mclntyre, James Ford and Frank Britton, of New Brighton, N. Y., were drowned by the capsizing of a boat. The exports of domestic merchandise of the United States for the last nine months amounted to $577,047,022, against $603,221,873 for the same time in 1893. The imports amounted to $503,529,738, and for the same time last year $625,325,372. The Pacific Express company’s office in The Dalles, Ore., was robbed of $15,000. George Peterson started to establish a new walking record from New York to Chicago. He expects to reach Chicago in thirty-five days. The Tabor Amusement company at Denver assigned with liabilities of $275,000. The visible supply of grain in the United States on the 15th was: Wheat, 75,074,000 bushels; corn, 3,379,000 bushels; oats, 9,980,000 bushels; rye, 885,000 bushels; barley 3,117,000 bushels.

The new issue of postage stamps was rapidly being disposed of, the government sending out 20,000,000 a day. In the recent storm on the gulf coastfifteen fishermen lost their lives on Sand island, near Apalachicola, Fla. William Pattison, an escaped madman, entered a church at York, Pa., and stampeded the congregation by firing right and left By a vote of 65 to 35 the general conference at Greenville, 111., of the Free Methodist church decided against the ordination of women. Mrs. Jennie Harrington and her three children perished by fire in the barn upon their farm in the outskirts of Elizabeth, N. J. Willis Griffey (colored), charged with assault on Miss Leha Berry (white), was taken from jail at Princeton, Ky., by a mob and hanged. A stranger distributed about S4OO in worthless old Indiana state bank notes at Anderson, Ind., and disappeared. During the nine months of 1894 the excess in gold exports from the United States oven imports was $73,893,610 and of silver $25,581,589. Jacob Sweininger’s fifth wife died very suddenly near Luray, Ind. She was the third to die of apoplexy.

Elders Freeman and Mercer, Mormon missionaries who had converted fifty people near Centertown, Ky., mostly women, to their faith, were tarred and feathered by indignant citizens and driven awayPERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Nominations for congress were made as follows: New Jersey, Sixth district, T. D. English (dem.); Eighth, C. N. Fowler (rep.). Rhode Island, First district, Melvilie Bull (rep.); Second, W. O. Arnold (rep.). New York, Seventh district, Franklin T. Bartlett; Eighth, James J. Walsh; Ninth, Henry C. Miner; Tenth, Daniel E. Sickles; Eleventh, William Sulzer; Twelfth. George B. McClellan; Thirteenth, Apios J. Cummings; Fourteenth, John Connolly; Fifteenth, Jacob A. Cantor, all democrats. Perry' Mayo, of Calhoun county, has been placed on the Michigan democratic ticket for lieutenant governor to succeed J. Milton Jordan, declined Mayo is the populist candidate for the same office. Attorney General Moloney rules that Illinois women must furnish their own ballots and not vote with the men. Charles F. Durston, aged 54, warden of Sing Sing (N. Y.) prison, died after two weeks’ illness with malignant typhoid fever. Uncontradicted rumors were to the effect that Nellie Grant Sartoris was to marry Gen. H. K. Douglas, of Baltimore. Oran Follett, a prominent official and newspaper writer of Ohio, died at Sandusky, aged 95 years. Henry 11. Green, a classmate of Gen. Grant at West Point and a Mexican war veteran, died at Mora, N. M., aged 71 years. In the Fourth New York district the democrats nominated W. J. Coombs for congress and in the Sixth James R. Howell. The democrats made the following congressional nominations: New York, Seventh district, Cornelius Flynn; Ninth, A. J. Campbell. New Jersey, Fourth district, Jacob Geissenhainer. Connecticut, Seventh district, Norman Sperry. Massachusetts, Thirteenth district, Robert Howard. Alabama, Fourth district, C. A. Robbins, renominated. FOREIGN. An alleged plot to kill the czar was discovered in Russia and many arrests were made among army officers. Kaffirs entered the port of Lourenzo Marquez, burned several buildings and murdered seventeen persons. England was endeavoring to enlist other powers in an effort to stop the Chinese-Japanese war. Owing to the abrogation of the reciprocity treaty with Brazil, importers of that country will sue the United States for duties which have been paid. Brazilian customs officers fired upon American sailors who were endeavoring to save the cargo of the wrecked Comet. The French boat Alice was sunk by a collision in a fog near Antwerp and six of her seamen drowned. Radicals and Irish were moving to crush the English house of lords and would force Rosebery to act or resign. A cipher letter received by a German traveler intimates that the illness of the czar of Russia is the result of poison administered by nihilists. In the Belgian elections the liberals met with defeat. Surprising gains ivere made by the socialists. An imperial decree was issued guaranteeing protection to all foreigners in China.

LATER. Twenty-nine vessels of the Gloucester (Mass.) fishing fleet, with an aggregate tonnage of 2,354 tons and 112 men, were lost during the past year, against ten vessels and fifty-three men last year. Mrs. Jetta Swarts died in Chicago at the age of 105 years. , The total appropriations made at the first and second sessions of the Fiftythird congress amounted to $492,230,685. Seventeen buildings in the business district of Liberty Center, 0., were destroyed by fire, the loss being SIOO,OOO. A. E. Smith, a letter carrier, rode from Chicago to New York on his bicycle in 7 days 14 hours and 5 minutes, lowering his own record. Fire swept away the entire central I portion of Sulphur, Ky., the loss being $100,009. Iwo sisters of St. Joseph were burned to death and another seriously injured in a fire in Houston, Tex., which caused a loss of $438,000. Judge Macon B. Allen, the first colored man admitted to the bar in the United States, died in Washington. In his annual report Maj. Gen. Miles complimented the work of the federal troops during the recent railroad strike. Black diphtheria was raging in the Indiana gas belt, especially in Anderson, Elwood and Middle town. The American ship Ivanhoe, coal laden, was reported lost off the Pacific coast with its crew of eighteen men. Edward Crate, one of the pioneers of the far northwest and the original settler at The Dalles, Ore., is dead. The business portion of the town of Sulphur, Ky., including a bank, two hotels and the depot, were destroyed by fire. Loss. SIOO,OOO. Emperor William unveiled a monument to his grandfather at Wiesbaden and opened the new Royal theater. The post office at New Albany, Ind., was robbed during the noon hour of in stamps and severul hundred dollars in cash. Charles Kahler, of Davenport, la., wounded his sweetheart and killed himself because she refused to consent to an immediate marriage. Three schooners were wrecked in a gale on the Pacific and fears were ex pressed for the safety of others. Rev. E. Hazard Snowden, the oldest Presbyterian minister in the state, died at his home in Forty Fort, Pa., aged 95 years. He was the oldest living graduate of Princeton theological seminary.