People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1894 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. DOMESTIC. Connecticut savings banks notified {depositors to withdraw all sums over >lO ,000, so as to be relieved of the income tax An equestrian statue of Maj. Gen. Ceorge B. McClellan was unveiled at Philadelphia with imposing ceremony. Stern & Co., New York shirt manufacturers, failed for £350,000 and Louis 8. Stern, one of the partners, drowned himself. Thomas Purdy, Dayton, 0., had for nearly a week been in a cataleptic trance, his body being as stiff as a i>oker. • Two men lost their lives in a prairie fire which swept through portions of Cherry and Grant counties, Neb., burning over a strip of country 50 miles in ■width and destroying hay stacks, homes, and in some instances stock. The president has recognized the consuls and vice consuls of the new consular service of the Hawaiian republic. Capt. R. H. Pratt's annual report of the Carlisle (Pa.) Indian school shows a successful year. There were 602 pu pils there. Gov. William C. Renfrow, of Oklahoma territory, in his annual report to the secretary of the interior says the territory has a population of 250,000. *The taxable valuation of the territory is £19,947,022. The governor recommends the admission of Oklahoma and Indian territory as one state. A new counterfeit £5 treasury note with the Thomas head was in circulation in Rochester, N. Y. The eastern anthracite coal sales agents decided to advance prices twen-ty-five cents on stove and fifteen cents on other sizes. Flying Jir paced an exhibition mile in 2:08% at Louisville, Ky. Fred Douglass addressed the Amercan Missionary association at Lowell, Mass. He said the negro still needed a helping hand. A Union county (N. J.) grand jury "brought in a presentment against churches and societies which run lotteries at festivals. A daughter of Squire Hause, of Jeffersonville, Ind., who has married 8,000 eloping couples, eloped with Roy Howard and was married. The statistician of the United States department of agriculture h*as made the following cotton crop estimate: Acres planted in 1893, 19,525,000; number of bales harvested, 7,493,000. The sudden extinguishment of the lights caused a panic in Noble’s opera house at Tiffin, 0., and a number of persons were badly injured. J. J. Reithman and J. J. Reithman & Co., wholesale druggists in Denver, failed for $500,000. It was announced that foreign officials would cooperate with the United States in keeping criminals from emigrating to this country. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 26th aggregated $911,918,325, against $950,045,906 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1898, was. 8.

A ten-acre tract of hone stone, a valuable mineral, has been discovered in Hardin county, la. A DECREASE of $14,281,596, of which •10 ,000,000 is in the item of pensions, is shown by Secretary Smith’s estimate of appropriations for the next fiscal year. Eli Krouse and Edward Wardneese, mill-owners, were run over and killed "by a train at Reelsville, Ind. One man was killed and eleven others entombed by a cave-in in the Pewabic mine at Iron Mountain, Mich. Miss Aonf.s Jones, who took a claim in Oklahoma, fatally shot Sam Bartell, who had jumped the claim during her absence. An unknown man started prairie fires in Nebraska which destroyed several lives and a vast amount of property. Stirred to action by a recent murder, people of Milwaukee will close the saloons in the vicinity of the soldiers’ home. Seven officials of justice’s courts were indicted at Denver, Col., for forging names on witness certificates and defrauding the county out of thousands of dollars. According to a decision rendered at Kansas City, Mo., by Assistant United States District Attorney Draffen, all laws for punishing repeaters at the polls have been repealed. James J. Wood, a poor carpenter of Springfield, 0., returned from Ireland with $200,000, his share of the estate of ancestors. Judge William Brooks, 80 years old, one of the south’s most eminent jurists, i dropped dead at his home in Birmingham, Ala. Officers of the Omaha (Neb.) national bank were endeavoring to ferret out a thief who had stolen large amounts from its safe ty vaults. The post office at Roaring Springs, Pa., was robbed by unknown men, who secured 13,000 stamps and S4OO cash. The Cunarder Lucania has again beaten herself, making a trip across the Atlantic in 5 days, 7 hours and 23 minutes, the fastest ever made. Young Hammett, 14 years of age, committed suicide at Columbia, S. C. Punishment by his father for excessive cigarette smoking was the cause. Laze Latham and Isaac Keebler, white caps, and Elijah Helton, their Intended victim, were killed in a fight in Sevier county, Tenn. Thebe were 231 business failures in the United States in the seven days coded on the 26th, against 253 the week previous and 353 in the corresponding time In ISM

Daniel McClintoc, trustee of Clifty township, Ind., worried over a shortage in his accounts until death ensued. Capt. J. A Manning, inspector of life-saving stations, dropped dead in a train at Grand Rapids, Mich. The annual report of Gov. Thornton, of New Mexico, submitted to the secretary of the interior, says there has been no material change in population, but a healthy growth has set in of a desirable class of immigration in almost every county of the territory, especially in the agricultural portion. During a quarrel over family matters and politics at Jeffersonville, Ind.. Harvey Stone fatally stabbed his brother. Robbers at Malvern, la., wrecked the Farmers’ national bank with dynamite and stole about SB,OOO in cash. Attorney General Olney, speaking of the statement of the assistant district attorney at Kansas City that there was no law by which election frauds could be punished in United States courts, said state laws were in existence by virtue of which election frauds, whether of registration or of voting, could be punished by state courts.

Coal miners who had been refused liquor set fire to two houses near Bellaire, 0., and the inmates narrowly escaped cremation. Six world’s bicycle records were lowered at'Waltham, Mass. Tyler made a flying mile in 1:48 3-5. Massachusetts has appointed a force of 400 inspectors with a view to stamping out tuberculosis in cattle. Boston and New York capitalists have formed a syndicate to purchase a line of newspapers from the Atlantic to the Pacific. A sailor was killed and three others were hurt during a fire on the docks at Pensacola, Fla. The loss was put at $200,000. The home of J. S. Coxey, of commonweal fame, near Massillon, 0., was destroyed by fire with all its contents, the loss being SIO,OOO. A cyclone did great damage in the vicinity of Tonkawa, O. T. Twenty houses were wrecked and their contents scattered. Sixteen persons lost their lives by the destruction by fire of the West Street hotel at Seattle, Wash. Philip Raymond, of West Newton, Mass., attempted to shoot a muskrat when the gun exploded, instantly killing his wife. Henry W. Meyer, of Dayton, 0., killed John J. Grimme. a neighbor and former friend, in a quarrel over a woman. Negro vesselmen who had taken the places of whites at New Orleans were attacked and beaten by an armed mob. The Methodists of New York celebrated the founding of the first Methodist Episcopal church in America. Three men were killed and nine others injured by a train collision on the Pennsylvania railroad at Corydon, Pa.

At East St. Louis, 111., the Bridge and Terminal company’s warehouse and 200 cars were burned at a loss of $500,000. Dynamiters destroyed a Hungarian boarding-house at Laural Run, Pa., killing three men and wounding four others fatally. A wagon containing a party returning from a dance was struck by a Big Four train near Lebanon, Ind., and five of the merry-makers were killed. Clarence H. Blackall, a Boston architect, filed insolvency papers. His liabilities were estimated at $290,000. Fire at Asheville, N. C., destroyed the Southern railway’s freight house, the loss being SIOO,OOO. By a vote o f 94 to 63 the lower house of the Georgia assembly refused to consider a resolution declaring for free silver. Forest fires did great, damage in portions of Tennessee and Mississippi. The wholesale millinery establishment of J. J. Porter & Co. at Pittsburgh, Pa., was destroyed by fire, the loss being $550,000. The Garden theater at St. Louis was destroyed by fire and Albert Shaw was burned to death and several others had narrow escapes. Rising Sun, a town of 1,500 inhabitants in Ohio, was totally destroyed by fire. The drought in West Virginia has caused great distress among farmers and lumbermen along the Little Kanawha. Stock had suffered greatly and a large proportion of late crops has failed.

Five hundred negroes will sail from the south for Liberia to find homes in the African republic. The men who robbed the Pacific express office at The Dalles, Ore., of $14,000 were captured and nearly all the booty recovered. A majority of the United Presbyterian Ministers’ association of Pittsburgh declared in favor of the taxing of church property. A “people’s version” of the first five books of the New Testament is being prepared by English revisers. The Illinois supreme court declared unconstitutional the law exempting building and loan associations from taxation. An investigation has resulted in the discovery of a shortage of $12,600 in the.accounts of Treasurer Barney, of Defiance, O. Snow fell in many northwestern states, reaching a depth of 6 inches at Sioux City, la. Seven members of the notorious Cook band of outlaws were captured and were taken to Fort Smith, Ark. All of the inmates of the white house were vaccinated as a necessary piecaution in view of the appearance of smallpox in Washington. The visible supply of grain in the United States on the 29th was: Wheat, 78,190,000 bushels; corn, 2,759,000 bushels; oats, 9,223,000 bushels; rye. 435,000 bushels; barley, 3,509,000 bushels. J. D. Roe fatally shot Ed McAlester, his rival for the affections of a young lady at Dayton, Mo., and then killed himself.' Henry W. Purchase, of Philadelphia. was awarded damages of $35,090 against the Pennsylvania railroad for injuries received in a train wreck.

Ten horses were suffocated in a fire in Fred Ross’ stable in Chicaga Cyclist Tyleb rode 2 miles on a bicycle with flying start in 4:04 at Waltham, Mass., making a new record. Henry F. Schatzel, a Brooklyn (N. Y.) banker, lays claim to property in Texas once owned by his uncle, and now worth $25,000,000. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL J. C. Dahlman, democratic candidate for auditor of 'Nebraska, withdrew to aid in the election of his populist opponent. Mrs. MaryA. Woolbridge, general corresponding secretary of the International W. C. T. U. t died at her home in Chicago. Dr. H. T. Helmbold, of patent medicine fame, died suddenly of apoplexy in the asylum for the insane at Trenton, N. J., aged 57 years. Col. Garrick Mallery, U. S. A., retired, died in Washington. He was in charge of the signal service bureau from 1870 to 1876. Col. Charles N. Pine, formerly editor of the Democrat at Princeton, 111., died at Port Jarvis, N. Y., aged 61 years. Mrs. Christian Border celebrated her 105th birthday at Lewiston, 111. She was 10 years old when Washington died. She is in fair health. Capt. John Adam Koch, a/ retired capitalist and veteran of the Mexican war, died at his home in Dubuque, la. Mrs. Margaret E. Easter, author of many popular poems, died at her home in Baltimore, aged 55 years. Rev. Dr. Andrew P. Happer, who spent forty-four years as a missionary in Canton, China, died at Wooster, O. Dr. Eugene Crowell, the author of two works on spiritualism, of which he was a strong advocate, died at New York, aged 78 years.

FOREIGN. Three thousand houses were destroyed and 260 persons killed and many injured by an earthquake in Japan. Six men were killed and twenty injured by an explosion on the French cruiser Arethuse while her engines were being tested. The sultan of Morocco ordered Muley Amin to go to Melilia with a force of soldiers to delimit the Spanish and Moorish frontier. Chancellor von Caprivi and Count Botho Zu Eulenberg, of the German cabinet, tendered their resignations to Emperor William. Dispatches from Wi Ju state that Japanese troops routed the Chinese with heavy loss near Fushang, on the Yalu river. A riot occurred in the convict settlement at Cayenne, France, and three guardsand twelve convicts were killed. Dispatches from Paris announce the death at Tours of Leon Palnstre, the famous archaeologist. Germany has prohibited the importation of American cattle or fresh beef, fear of Texas fever being the reason alleged. Prince Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst has accepted the German chancellorship. He will also be premier of Prussia. A force of 17,000 Chinese was routed by the Japanese at Kiurenn, and 200 were killed and many captured. The loss of life in Rioja, Argentine, from the recent earthquake was placed at 2,000. Many towns throughout the republic were in ruins and fully 20,000 persons were homeless. Emperor William conferred decorations on Caprivi and Eulenburg, the retiring German chancellor and Prussian premier.

LATER. Mrs. John Stanley and her daughter, Mrs. Skinner, were fatally injured with a hammer by a robber who entered their home near Columbiaville, Mich. James P. Willett, a lifelong resident of the district, was appointed postmaster of Washington by the president The embargo placed on American cattle and dressed meat at Hamburg has been extended to other German ports. The Spanish cabinet resigned. Differences on colonial questions were believed to have been the cause of the action. A. J. Holmes, for twenty years one of the millionaires of San Francisco, died at the almshouse. It was reported that the young empress of China committed suicide at China. She was rebuked by the emperor, who slapped her face, whereupon she took poison. Honors Mercier, ex-premier of Quebec, and for fears leader of the French-Canadians, died at Montreal after a long illness, aged 54 years. The third attempt in two months was ma.de to burn the Akron Building & Cabinet company’s plant at Akron,O. John Kreps and David Jones were instantly killed and Benjamin Mount fatally injured by the explosion of a sawmill boiler at Parkersburg, W. Va. William Gbiffin and Leroy Moores, Perrien county (Ga.) farmers, fought a duel with axes, both being killed. Three unknown men were killed by a freight train wreck on the Beach Creek railroad near Peale, Pa. They had revolvers and burglars’ tools and were supposed to hsve been cracksmen. C Rewards were offered by the postmaster general for the arrest and conviction of highway mail robbers and post office burglars. Through an error in enrolling the bill, Pennsylvania’s marriage license law will not become operative until October 1, 1895. Seven persons were suffocated in a tenement-house fire in New York and a woman who jumped from a thirdstory window w’as fatally injured. ' A French secret society called “The i Macquereaux” was alleged to be rej sponsible for the murder of two women Jin Denver. E. G. Watte, secretary of state of {California and a candidate for reelection, died at Alameda. He was made ill by worry over political mattten.