People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1894 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts: DOMESTIC. A span of the bridge over the Ohio river at Jeffersonville, Ind., fell, carrying twenty workmen with it, and three were seriously injured. The residence of Herman Barthold, b farmer near Toledo. 0., was destroyed by fire and his two daughters, aged 12 and 7, were burned to death. Eugene Schawecker, a wholesale grocer and liquor merchant of Cincinnati, committed suicide on the grave of his first wife. Daniel H. Burnham, of Chicago, was reelected president of the American Institute of Architects at the annual meeting in New York. An old Navajo Indian at Gallup, N. 31., who married a young squaw against the wishes of her parents, shot and killed her and then killed himself. The French-Eversole feud broke out afresh in Perry county, Ky., an 4 one member of each faction was killed in the encounter. William Barnes, a clerk in the treasurer’s office for thirty-five years, died in Washington. It was said that he had handled in his lifetime probably more money than any other man in the world. jKt Nearly 24,000 democrats were placed in charge of post offices during the first year of the present administration. Harris Olney and Charles Dalton committed suicide at Brooklyn, N. ¥., by turning on the gas in their room. Bering a quarrel at Baltimore over a division of profits from their coal business Robert Herrlich shot and fataily wounded his father. Another strike of weavers occurred nt Fall River, Mass., making 6,000 persons out of employment. In a quarrel over forty cents’ worth of beer in a St. Maurice (Ind.) saloon Jackson Stevens shot and killed Ben Hearn.

Channing M. Britton, of New York, ;was elected president of the Carriage pßuilders’ association at the annual xneeting in Philadelphia, In ,his annual report Gen. Howard Bays the railroad strike showed the Necessity of doubling the army. In trials against time at Hamilton, Ont, Bicyclist Davidson lowered the record for the half mile standing to 0:58 and the quarter to 0:30. FiKe destroyed a portion of the Tredegar iron works at Richmond, Va. Loss, 8150,000. At Philadelphia a new baseball association was formed, which is expected to be a strong rival to the National league. In the hearing of indicted gamblers in Chicago the big proprietors escaped only the lesser lights being found guilty. James West and G. H. Crenshaw, of Philadelphia, were killed By a landslide while crossing the Sierra Madres. Kristian Kobtgaard, ex-president of the Minneapolis State bank, was convicted of appropriating 813,000 of its funds. Miss Monroe was awarded 85,000 in her suit against the New York World for prematurely publishing her world’s fair ode.

Robert J. and John R. Gentry’ paced • dead heat at Nashville, Tenn., in 8:04. Because of numerous train robberies the Pacific Express company will handle no more money in Indian territory. Afibe which started in Miller Broa’ livery stable at Monticello, la., burned fifteen high-priced horses and destroyed half a dozen residences. The following congressional nominations were made by the democrats: Rhode Island, First district, €’. H. Page (renominated); Second, Oscar Lapham (renominated). Massachusetts, Second district, E. A. Hall. Tennessee, Sixth district, J. A. Washington (renominated). Kentucky, Sixth district, A. S. Berry. Miners who took the places of strikers at Ashland, Ky., were fired upon from ambush and several of them were ■wounded.

William Dolby, the cause of the riot at Washington Court House, 0., was taken to the penitentiary. Two more victims of the riot had died. The post office department has declared the Cooperative Loan & Investment company of Mississippi is conducting a lottery. While temporarily insane Elliott L. Titus, aged 24, killed Mary 9. Duff, aged 28, at Sea Cliff, L. 1., and then killed himself. The young people exj>4cted to be married soon. Mbs. George Eddy and Mrs. Painter were killed by a passing train at a grade crossing near Byron, HL The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 19th aggregated 8950,045,906, against 8927,428,877 the previous week. The increase, compared with the corresponding week in 1893, was 8.1. Mbs. Majby Sawyer and two daughters, aged 16 and 18, were killed at Neb., while driving over the Burlington tracks. i Theodore Ammerman, wounded in jthe riot at Washington Court House, 0., died, making the total number of dead five.

Im Sleepy Hollow cemetery at Tarrytown, N. Y., a monument was unwiled to the residents of the town Who fought in the revolutionary war. SThe day was the 118th anniversary of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Tforktown. Judos Smith, for twenty-seven years ion the circuit bench at Galesburg, 111., resigned because of ill health. Ora farm near Albion, N. Y., William Lake killed Miss Hunt because •he refused to marry him and then IriiUd >

An omnibus indictment was found in Chicago by the federal grand jury against the officers of the American Railway union and all strikers charged with violence and obstructing the mails. At Waltham, Mass., Tyler cut the 2mile standifa*’’ start liicycbe "record to 4:03. Twenty-five of the largest wholesale manufacturers of clothing in Chicago organized a defensive association. There were 253 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on tiie 19th, against 231 the week previous and 341 in the corresponding time in 1893. Sons of the American Revolution presented a stand of colors to the Fifteenth regiment, U. S. A., at Fort Sheridan, in recognition of its gallant conduct during the late strike in Chicago. Four men held up a Texas Pacific passenger train near Gordon, Tex., at noon and robbed the express car of an amount estimated at from 81,000 to 820,000. James O. Dooley, the youthful murderer of his aunt and a 10-year-old cousin in Adams county, la., on May 11, 1892, was executed at Fort Madison. Chabi.es Ermish and Otto Wongkert were hanged in St. Paul, Minn., for the murder of Lindholf, a barkeeper, May 2 last. Organization of the new American Baseball association was completed in Philadelphia. W. S. Kanes was elected president, secretary and treas’urer. Postmaster General Bissell issued an order that hereafter an address label may be pasted on the address side of an envelop as well as the message side of a postal card. The Fond du Lac (Wis.) factory of the American Biscuit company was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of 8100,000.

The government officials at Washington will endeavor to keep out seventy anarchists reported to be on their way to the United States. Fifth Auditor Holcomb in his annual report announces a deficit in the foreign mission fund for the year of 890,000. J. Adam Bede, United States marshal for Minnesota, hasresignedrather than forego participation in the political. campaign. Vesselmen at Philadelphia feared that the schooner John D. Williams, eight men, and the steamer Falcon, seven men, were lost. Every passenger conductor on the Grand Trunk system was shifted to another division as a result of recent “spotting.” Stephen Williams, a negro who attempted to assault Mrs. Narde'Sty, an aged white woman, was taken from the jail at Marlboro, Md., by masked men and hanged. Harry Sharpe, a Missouri Pacific conductor, was thrown from his train by tramps and killed near Jefferson City, Mo. The striking of a match by a careless bystander caused an explosion at a gas well near Greenfield, Ind., and five drillers were dangerously burned. Silas Jones and his wife and child perished in flames that destroyed their home near Knoxville, la.

The working home for the blind at Iberia, 0., was destroyed by fire and one inmate was fatally burned. Mrs. Charles Wimeer and her 11-year-old son, Louis, were killed by a Big Four train at Indianapolis. Near Hornick, la., a territory of 300 acres of land has been on fire for two months. The soil is burned to a depth of 5 feet. Interviews with leading men of Illinois show a majority in favor of state control of the Lincoln monument at Springfield. The treasury receipts at Washington during twenty days of the present month amounted to 812,874,858 and the disbursements $20,577,000, leaving a deficit for the twenty days of 87,702,142. The deficit for the fiscal year amounts to 88,482,205. Fire destroyed the home of Rev. Ross Taylor in South Nyack, N. Y., and four of his children perished. Three other persons were seriously injured.

Six men were buried under a falling wall while demolishing an old building at St Paul and two of them would die. Harrison Smith, of Atlanta, Ga., father of eleven children, killed himself when his wife presented him with two more. The residence of Sylvester Yeagle, near Carlisle, 0., was struck by lightning and consumed and Mrs. Yeagle and two children w-ere killed and their bodies burned to ashes. A windstorm at Winfield, Kan., and the surrounding country wrecked many buildings and injured several persons. At Gueda Springs ten houses and two hotels were blown down. Society women of Saginaw, Mich., organized a union and will require their servant girls to be in the house at 10 p. m. Sanford Baldwin, of Hannibal, Mo., ended an unhappy marital existence by killing his wife and himself Strychnine was placed in the coffee at the Colusa (Cal.) county hospital by a discharged Chinaman and twentytwo persons were made ill, one of whom died. A conference looking to the uniting of all the iron works of the country in one organization was being held in Indianapolis. Armed bandits were said to be in practical control of Indian territory and federal aid in their suppression was asked. Three prisoners under sentence of death fought in the jail at Tahlequah, J. T., two of them being fatally injured. John Waltz, an aged and wellknown citizen of Cambridge City, Ind., shot and fatally injured his 8-year-old son and then himself. Domestic trouble was the cause. John P. Weed, a prominent wholesale merchant of Toledo, 0., and his wife were probably fatally injured in a. runaway accident. Chauncey Wheaton, a wealthy farmer of Athens, Pa., was bunkoed out of 85,000 by two sharpers.

The visible supply of grain In the United States on the22d was: Wheat, 76,659,000 bushels; corn. 3,399,000 bushels; oats. 9.145.000 bushels; rye, 408,000 bushels; barley 3,068.000 bushels. A mad dog bit six.persons at- Wichita, Kan. '• ■ - PERSONAL AND POLITICAL MXrgaret Murphy, aged 108, died in New York city. Gen. William F. Reynolds, a veteran of the Mexican war and a celebrated engineer, died suddenly at his home in Detroit. Mich., aged 73. Everett P. Wheeler has accepted the nomination for governor of New York at the hands of the “democratic party reform organization.” The following congressional nominations were made: Missouri. Eleventh district, Charles F. Joy (rep.); Twelfth, F. M. Sterrett (rep.). Tennessee, Tenth district, R J. Rawlings (pop.). Ex-Mayor Grant accepted the Tammany nomination for mayor of New York, Nathan Straus having withdrawn his name. Andrew Smith, a member of the firm of Smith Brothers, manufacturers of cough drops, died in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., aged 58 years. He was widely known as a philanthropist. George O. Sharpe, of Elyria, 0., says his grandmother, Mrs. Crittenden. is 133 years old, and that her mother, who died in Scotland, was 146 years of age. Joseph Dorsett Bf.dle, ex-governor of New Jersey, died in a New York hospital from a surgical operation, aged 63 years. Nearly as many women registered in Denver, Col., as men, 61,400 names having been entered on the books. Mrs. Hannah Chaffee, widow of Fay Chaffee, died at Adrian, Kan., geed 102 years.

FOREIGN. Up to the end of September the total emigration from Great Britain this year was 121,173, a decrease of 57,559 as compared with the corresponding period of 1893. Of this number 82,031 shipped for the United States and 15,418 for Canada. It was estimated that European countries would have to import 118,000,000 bushels of wheat, owing co the shortage in the crop. During a fire originating in a naphtha spring in Grosny. Transcaucasia, seventeen workmen were burned to death. Advices from Caracas, Venezuela, announce the death of Feliciano Alvezez, acting president of the country. A bill was introduced in the Japanese parliament empowering the government to borrow 100,000,000 yen for prosecution of the war. Russian officials admitted there was no hope of the recovery of the czar. Members of the imperial family wera hurrying to Livadia. The Intercolonial railway blacksmith shop and roundhouse at Rivera du Loup, Can., were destroyed by fire, the loss being 8200,000. James Anthony Froude, LL. D., the English historian and theological Writer, died in London, aged 76 years. The Japanese diet, in session at Hiroshima, granted the government's delnand for 8150,000,000 to carry on tha was with China. Fierce gales raged along the British coast, wrecking numerous vessels and causing the loss »f many lives. It was reported that negotiations for peace between China and Japan were in progress at Seoul. Forty bodies were recovered from the colliery at Anina, Hungary, where an explosion of firedamp occurred.

LATER. Runs on the Pittsburgh (Pa.) “discretionary pools” continued, and George M. Irwin & Co., one of the principal concerns, suspended, .ith liabilities of over 81,000,000. In his annual report Gen. Otis urges the acquirement by the government of strategic points on Puget sound. An earthquake almost completely destroyed the town of Sakata, Japan. The lops of life was heavy and the loss to property enormous. A mysterious disease has broken out among Arizona miners in the Cour d’Alene district. Several hundred persons hav% been stricken. Capt. Henry A. Ford, an educator and newspaper writer of state reputation, fell dead on a street car in Detroit The Big Four railway shops at Wabash, Ind., were destroyed by fire, causing a loss of over 8100,000. Cyclist Seableb conydeted his ride from Chicago to New York in 6 days, 7 hours and 30 minutes, lowering the previous record an hour. Helen Grier, of Spokane, Wash., convicted of poisoning her sixth husband, was sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary. A battle occurred near Yi Chow and the Japanese were repulsed with a loss of 3,000 men on each side. In an action for damages Judge Field, of Louisville, Ky., decided the Pullman company was not a common carrier. James K. Edgerly, returning to Fort Henry, N. Y., from Oklahoma, paid 81,000 for a worthless bond to two confidence men in Chicago. Sharp earthquake' shocks were felt at Los Angeles, San Diego and Campo, CaL John H. Dood, for thirty years business manager of the Courier, dropped dead at his home in Zanesville, 0., of apoplexy. An explosion from an unknown cause wrecked a St Louis grocery store and injured five persons, one fatally. The president and his family left Buzzard’s Bay, Mass., for Washington. The outlaws in Harlan county, Ky., have become so lawless and defiant that the authorities decided to suppress them at once. The national convention of German Epworth leagues met at St. Paul with a large attendance. A collision between Southern Pacific trains near Walker Station, Tex., resulted in the death of two persona •nd the injury of four other*.