People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1894 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. DOMESTIC. John English, of Portland, Ind., elected sheriff on the republican ticket, was taken ill after the close of the polls and died from heart disease. Two children of Alfred Hindstrom, of Chassell, Mich., were left alone in the house, which caught fire, cremating them. Alexander G. Peck and his wife were found dead at their home in Elgin. 111. They had been asphyxiated by coal gas. Hundreds of people in Deerfield, 0., were exposed to small pox through contact with a faith cure victim.

The opera house, the post office and D. M. Miller & Co.’s store were burned at Addison. W. Va., by incendiaries. Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, pastor of the Brooklyn tabernacle for twentyfive years, has resigned. A terrific storm had raged for thir-ty-six hours all over New England. Its violence was only equaled by the great blizzard of 1888. Reports from various points indicated disasters to shipping and great destruction of property, aggregating in value several hundred thousand dollars. Detectives found the body of Mrs. Mary Cottrell, of Hamilton county, on a dissecting table in an Indianapolis medical college. Lee Lawrence (colored) was lynched by a mob near Monticello. Ga. He had been sentenced to be hanged November 80 for assaulting Mrs. Polk. Attorney General Olney decided that railway employes had a legal right to belong to brotherhoods. At a meeting of the National Waif association in Pittsburgh Gen. Russell A. Alger, of Detroit, Mich., was elected president. The San Bernardino (Cal.) First national bank closed its doors from lack of funds. Four masked bandits rode into Shattuck, 0. T.. and robbed the post office, a store and a saloon.

At Litchfield, 111., John Hottenrout killed Mrs. Charles Niemeyer and then committed suicide. Trouble over land was the cause. Mike Kelly, famous as a baseball catcher for Chicago and Boston clubs, died of pneumonia in a Boston hospital, aged 34 years. Michael Wilson, aged 65, of Adrian, Mich.,was imprisoned for cruelly beating his mother, who is 92 years old. “Kid” Thompson, the notorious train robber, was captured and turned over to officers by cowboys in Arizona. Thebe were 261 business failures In the United States in the seven days ended on the 9th, against 249 the week previous and 858 in the corresponding time in 1893. At Taylor, Tex., Joe Patchen went a mile over a half-mile track In 2:09, "breaking the pacing record one and one-quarter seconds.

N. J. Villars, in jail at Fargo, N. D., confessed to the murder of a farmer and his wife near Jamestown. The Citizens’ national bank at Oberlin, 0., was robbed of S6OO by unknown thieves who could not force the vault door. Heavy snowstorms prevailed on the coast of New England and several vessels were wrecked. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 9th aggregated $948,954,499, against $923,557,816 the previous week. The increase, compared with the corresponding week in 1898, was 1.8. Crazed by a protracted debauch, Peter Pepper, a Louisville (Ky.) barber, tore out his tongue and died in terrible agony. Bbig. Gen. McCook was appointed major general in the United States army to succeed Gen. Howard, retired. Investigation shows that on railroads owned by governments the charges are very much higher than in the United States. Members of the Cook gang raided the town of Lenapah, I. T., robbing a store, killing one man and wounding another.

The Export Coal company at Pensacola, Fla., failed for $150,1)00. The Shulenburg & Boeckeler Lumber company of St. Louis made an assignment with liabilities of $215,000. Mrs. Abbie A. Bromley, widow of Avery A. Bromley, a prominent and Wealthy citizen, died suddenly at Middletown, N. Y., at the age of 70 years. For eighteen years she had lived the life of a recluse, and during that time never spoke to a human being. Ernest Huhn, a mining expert, fell 600 feet down a shaft at Nevada City, Cal., and was terribly mangled. The ship Ida C. Southard, from Philadelphia to New Orleans, was thought to have been lost with her crew of seven men. The Cherokee legislature passed a bill making it treason for any citizen to sell his real estate to a non-citizen, naming as s penalty for so doing death by hanging. The dry goods firm of Garrettson, Woodruff & Pratt at Tacoma, Wash., failed for $400,000. Three men attempted to thaw some dynamite at Huntington, Ind., and were blown to death. A storm in Connecticut caused a loss ©f over SIOO,OOO to the telegraph and telephone companies. John Donovan, of Bay City, will be the only democrat in the next Michigan legislature. The Arlington inn, a famous southern hotel located at Fort Worth, Tex., Was burned, the loss being $150,000. A counterfeit $lO note, check letter B, act of July 14, 1890, series 1891; J. IFount Tillman, register of the treasury; D. N. Morgan, treasurer of the United States; portrait of Gen. Sherifdan, was discovered at Washington.

Members of a Sharon (Pa.) maennerchor ate a cat, which was palmed off on them as a ’possum by an Ohio man. Almost the entire business center of the village of Frederick, S. D., was destroyed by fire, the loss being SIOO,000. Gov. Flower, of New York, has granted permission to experts to attempt to resuscitate a man executed in the electrical chair. Over 100 business men of Perry, O. T., were arrested for refusal to pay the occupation tax. President Cleveland was said to favor a new issue of bonds at once, owing to the low stage of the gold reserve. November returns of the rates of yield of corn per acre make the average 19,7, the lowest in thirteen years. A heavy snowstorm prevailed throughout Indiana, delaying freight and passenger trains in many instances.

The first grafid lodge of the American National Union of Stenographers and Typewriters was organized in St. Joseph, Mo. Residents of Indianapolis were alarmed at the frequency with which graves were being desecrated and robbed. The visible supply of grain in the United States on the 12th was: Wheat, 31,220,000 bushels; corn, 2,038.000 bushels; oats, 9,064,000 bushels; rye. 449.000 bushels: barley, 3,933.000 bushels. William Sturges, the plaintiff in the famous Sturges-Farwell litigation in Chicago, and who broke down under its weight, died at Owego, N. Y. The Texas Pacific railroad cotton wharf at New Orleans was burned by incendiaries, causing a loss of $500,000. Henry Powell shot and fatally wounded Mrs. Sapire McLaughlin at North Rochester, Pa., and then killed himself. Jealousy was the cause. The First national bank of Johnson City, Tenn., with a capital of SIOO,OOO, closed its doors. Martin J. Watson buried at Anderson, Ind., the last of a family of five, including his wife, who were in good health one month ago. They were the victims of black diphtheria. John W. Goff, recorder-elect of New York city, filed a statement showing that his campaign expenses in the recent election were seventy-five cents. Barrett Scott, who, as treasurer of Holt county. Neb., embezzled SIOO,OOO, was sentenced at Neligh to the penitentiary for five years. Joseph LaCroix and Philip Wells, his uncle, were murdered by Indians while crossing Pine Ridge Indian reservation in South Dakota.

Three masked men attempted to rob the bank at Sylvan Grove, Kan. One was wounded by the cashier and was killed by his companions to prevent exposure. A ’Frisco passenger train was held up near Monett, Mo., by two masked men, who compelled the express messenger to turn over the express packages. Mrs. Jacob Thomas and child were burned to death at Hastings, Neb. Pullman, the General Managers’ association and the railway strikers were condemned in the report of the government strike commission. The establishment of a national board of arbitration was recommended. One man was killed and six others injured by the collapse of the wall of a building under construction at Philadelphia. Directors in Chicago of the Columbian exposition resolved to dispose of the 200,000 unsold souvenir half dollars at par. Inspector Schaack suspended nineteen Chicago policemen for failure to perform their duty and three others were discharged by Chief Brennan for misconduct during the election. Hundreds of acres of potatoes that were not dug, and corn, apples and other farm products that were not har.vepted were frozen by a blizzard in Michigan. Fifty thousand persons witnessed the launching of the St Louis, the largest vessel ever constructed in America, at Philadelphia. Mrs. Cleveland christened the steamship. Forest fires in Arkansas were still burning fiercely, doing great damage. Near Edmondson two negroes were burned to death. A heavy fall of snow was reported throughout Illinois, lowa, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Latest returns from the elections on the 6th show that the republicans were successful in all parts of the country. In New York Levi P. Morton (rep.) was elected governor by 150,000 plurality, and in New York city Strong (rep.) was elected mayor. New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Delaware. Pennsylvania, North Dakota, South Dakota, California, Minnesota, Missouri, Kansas, West Virginia, Wyoming, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Colorado and Utah are in the republican column. Illinois also gives 90,000 republican plurality for the state ticket; Indiana, 50,000; Ohio, 147,000—the largest ever given; Michigan, 50,000; Wisconsin, 50,000; lowa 90,000. Nebraska elects a fusion (pop.-dem.) governor by a majority of 5,000. Tennessee and North Carolina were in doubt. Mississippi, South Carolina, Kentucky, Texas, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana and Georgia went democratic. The republicans carried Chicago and Cook county by 80,000 plurality. Further returns from the state elections show that the total numbet of republican representatives elected to the Fifty-fourth congress is 250. Re turns also indicated that the republioans had secured control of the senate. The latest advices show that as a result of the congressional elections on the 6th the republicans elected 255 members of the lower house, the democrats 94 and the populists 7. The republicans carried the solid congressional delegations of twenty-three states and a majority of the delegations in thirty states. The returns also indicated that the republicans had secured control of the next senate by a majority of one and possibly three.

It was considered probable that the populists had elected the governor of Texas and eleven congressmen. The pluralty of Henry Wulff (rep.) for state treasurer of IHinois over Claggett (dem.) was placed at 130,000. Maj. Gen. O. O. Howard, of the United fjtates army, ha*.been formally retired, having the age'limit, 64 years. Official returns from New York give Levi P. Morton (rep.) 156,781 plurality for governor over David P. Hill. The plurality for Strong (rep.) for mayor of New York city is 44,265, and the republicans also elect a majority of the board of aidermen. The supreme court of New’Jersey decided that women had not the right to vote at the school meetings in the state. Full returns from the election in lowa give William McFarland (rep.) for secretary of state a plurality of 80,305. Official returns from the recent elections give the following republican pluralities: Indiana. 45.445; lowa, 80,000; Missouri, 11,092; Wisconsin, 51,498; Minnesota. 59,258; Connecticut, 17,667; New York, 155,668. Rufus N. Ramsay, state treasurer of Illinois, died at Carlyle after a brief illness, aged 55 years. George W. Scoggan, the well-known race-horse owner and breeder, died at his home near Louisville, Ky. Official election returns from Nebraska give Holcomb (dem.-pop.) for governor a plurality of 3.087. All the remainder of the state officers elected J are republicans, their pluralities rang- I ing from 13,000 to 30,000. The legisla- | ture will stand: Senate, republican, i 24; populists, 9. House, republican, 72; democrats, 7; populists, 21.

FOREIGN. The schooner Annie M. Pride was driven ashore at the entrance to Halifax harbor and all on board (seven person) perished. The volcano of Colima, in Mexico, was in an active eruption, and the people in the immediate vicinity were greatly alarmed, as streams of lava were pouring down the sides of the mountains. Twenty Brazilian artillerymen were shot at Rio de Janiero for refusing to obey the orders of their officers. Guillaume Louis Figuier, the noted French chemist and scientific writer, died in Paris, aged 72 years. The Spanish coast steamship Fernando foundered 20 miles north of Bahai Honda and ten of her passengers and crew were drowned. A cloudburst near Valencia, Venezuela. killed 150 persons and damaged the coffee and other crops to the extent of $500,000. Two men were killed and one injured by the collapse of an unfinished six-story building in Montreal, Can. A fire-damp explosion in the coal mine at Bruecho, Bohemia, killed twenty miners and injured many more. Over 8,000 Armenians, including women and children, were massacred in the Sassoun region near Moosh, Turkish Armenia, during a recent attack by Kurds and twenty-five villages were destroyed. A dispatch to a London paper says that Port Arthur had fallen into the hands of the Japanese. The large warehouse in London owned by the Terrebona Tea company was burned, the loss being $400,000. Busch & Co., cotton and coffee merchants at Havre, France, failed for sl,000,000. Russell Island savages attacked the French traders’ station, killed its occupants and feasted on their bodies.

LATER. Dangerous counterfeit half dollars were in circulation in Indiana. The date upon them is 1894 and they are a trifle lighter than the genuine. Judge Allen G. Thurman celebrated his 81st birthday at his home in Columbus, O. Ex-Banker A. A. Cadwallader, of Superior, Wis., pleaded guilty of embezzlement and was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment. Gen. Cassius M. Clay, 84 years old, and his ward, Dora Richardson, 15 years old, were married at Gen. Clay’s home in Lexington, Ky. The general assembly of the Knights of Labor met in eighteenth annual session at New Orleans. The annual report of George A. Howard, the auditor for the post office department, shows that the total number of money order offices in operation June 80, 1894, was 19,529. Novelli & Co., merchants at London, failed for $500,000. The twelfth annual meeting of the National Baptis* congress began at Detroit, Mich. Secretary Carlisle issued a call for bids for $50,000,000 5 per cent, ten year gold bonds. At Renova, Miss., a colored couple, Harvey Owsley and wife, were burned to death in their cabin, which caught from a forest fire. “Jack the Strangler” is again at work in Denver. A Japanese girl of ill repute was his third victim. Bill Cook and his robber band held up a Missouri, Kansas & Texas train near Muskogee, I. T. They were unable to enter the express car, but relieved the passengers of their valu ables. The official vote in the Seventh Kentucky district gives Owens (dem.) a plurality of 101 votes. The body of the late czar reached St. Petersburg and was escorted to the cathedral by a procession imposing in length and make-up. More than 300 persons lost their lives in an earthquake in Japan. Sakata was almost entirely destroyed. Myron B. Wright, of Suesquehanna, congressman from the Fifteenth Pennsylvania district, died at Trenton, Ont., aged 47 years. The schooner John Shaw with its crew of seven men was wrecked off Oscoda, Mich. The official vote of the election in Indiana by congressional districts gives the republicans a majority of 55,647. For the head of the state ticket the republican plurality is 47.649.