People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1894 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. DOMESTIC. TEE body of William Sturges, of Chicago* was incinerated at the Presbyterian crematory in Newtown, L. I. Twelve men concerned in the lynching of John and Monroe Evans in Cullum, Ala., in 1891, were arrested. At the annual session in New York of the National Baseball league N. E. Young was reelected president for a term of three years.

Henby Binder, a retired business man of Ann Arbor, Mich., was burned to death in his barn by the explosion of a lantern. At Plymouth, Pa., fire destroyed a breaker and its outhouses with all machinery, the loss being 8160,000. At the industrial conciliation and arbitration congress in Chicago many important papers were read and the different phases of the arbitration question were discussed. Joe Patchen paced a mile over a half-mile track at San Antonio, Tex., in 2:08, breaking the world’s record. Twenty students of the Bible college of Kentucky university at Lexington were seriously ill with typhoid lever, caused by drinking impure water, and three had died. Seven men were under arrest at Ridgway, Pa., for attempting to destroy the family of a miner who would not strike. The schooner Antelope, of Chicago, capsized at Grand Haven, Mich., and the three men comprising her crew were drowned. A forest fire that started from a sawmill west of the mining camp of "Ward, Gol., had done fully $2,000,000 clamage and was still spreading. Sheffield, an lowa town of 1,000 inhabitants, was almost entirely wiped cut by fire.

Three children of Jeff Raynor, left alone in the house at Oakland, Tenn., were burned to death and the building destroyed. Unknown persons made two attempts to wreck the midnight passenger train ever the Chicago & Alton road at Joliet, 111. •Government officials unearthed gigantic frauds perpetrated at the opening of the Cherokee strip to settlement. For the ten months ended with October the exports of merchandise from the United States were 8660,106,648 Against $690,987,354 for the corresponding period of 1893. The imports were $563,271,016, against $677,060,694 in 1893. Jay Hicks, who murdered Ranchman Meyers in South Dakota and nearly killed the sheriff, was hanged at Sturgis. The annual report of R. A. Maxwell, •fourth assistant postmaster general, shows that the total number of post ■offices in operation in the United States on June 30 last w r as 69,805. Of these 66,377 were fourth-class offices and 3,428 presidential. During the year 3,136 post offices were established and 1,734 discontinued. The total number of appointments during the year was 23.166.

Edith Elder killed Frank Quinn, a well-known young man at Stockton, Cal., because he refused to marry her. Operators drilled in an oil well near dibsonburg, 0., which yielded 2,000 barrels of oil daily. In his address before the Knights of Labor at New Orleans General Master Workman Sovereign urged the abolition of state militia and a decrease of the army. Iron Nation, the head chief of the Lower Brule Sioux, died in the reservation in South Dakota of pneumonia, aged 90 years. By the cracking of a mud drum at muck bar mill in Muncie, Ind., five men were dangerously scalded. Three may die. Five hundred inmates of the Indiana home for feeble minded children were exposed to scarlet fever and ten cases had developed. Paymaster Smith in his report to the secretary of war opposes withholding a part of the wages of soldiers. At the annual meeting in Washington of the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations H. E. Alvord, of Oklahoma, was elected president. Detectives at West Superior, Wis., captured a man and woman engaged in together with their outsat.

Rev. Richard Carroll, aged 89, a pr-wminent Baptist preacher for sixtyliwe years, committed suicide by hanging at Maynardsville, Tenn. Storms extinguished the forest fires in Colorado mining districts. The damage to property was estimated at SI ,009,4)00, and several hundred people were made homeless. Thebe were 270 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on tiie 16th, against 261 the week previous and 232 in the corresponding time in 1893. The firm of B. H. Douglass & Sons, confectioners at New Haven, Conn., failed for 8100,000. Mabtin V. Strait, a flour and feed dealer at Elmira, N. Y., shot his wife end her sister, Mrs. William Whitford, end himself. Domestic trouble was the cause. Dun’s weekly review of trade says gradual improvement is noticeable in nearly all branches of business. During a boxing match at Syracuse, N. Y., Bob Fitzsimmons struck his mate. Con Riordan, a chance blow which caused his death. As the result of a feud Mayor Harman and Henry Lawrence, of Lula, Miss., were shot and killed by J. W. .. Boyd. A Denvfd newspaper says a big syndicate is scheming to obtain control of the entire American output of silver.

The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 16th aggregated $1,019,202,328, against $948,954,499 the previous week. The increase, compared with the corresponding week in 1893, was 1.2. The twenty-first annual convention of the National Women’s Christian Temperance union met in Cleveland with representative women present from every state and territory and from Canada. The International Christian Alliance convention met in St. Louis with delegates present from Canada as well as from different parts of the United States. The southern phosphate works at Macon, Ga., were destroyed by fire, the loss being $150,000. In a mine at Blackhawk, Col., four workmen were suffocated by smoke. Eight men lost their lives by the capsizing of a barge at Charlotte, Fla. Col. W. C. P. Ursz.kinridge will go on the‘lecture platform. Twelve business houses and nine residences in Columbia, Ky., were destroyed by fire. Ir was said that 215 families of American Railway union men were on the verge of starvation in Denver, Col., because of the railway strike last June. J. R. Mercer & Co., dealers in fertilizers and farmers’ supplies at Macon, Ga., failed for SIOO,OOO. James Sheajcley, governor of Alaska, in his annual report says the people have enjoyed a season of unusual progress and prosperity and law and order has prevailed. The governor estimates the population at about 32,000. In one day four persons committed suicide in Leadville. Col. The trial in Chicago of Debs and the other officers of the American Railway union under indictment in the United States court was set by Judge Grosscup for January 8. During the week ended on the 17th 444,000 head of stock were received at the Chicago stock yards, the heaviest receipts on record for six days. Italian laborers on a West Virginia railroad have received no pay for three months, and are creating a reign of terror. John Ashby and John Heverin were mortally and Police Officer Stuart seriously wounded in a saloon fight at Owensboro, Ky. The new treaty between the United States and Japan was concluded in all its essential features.

Bicycle champions of five foreign countries arrived in New York, where they will compete with Americans. SOttthebn congressmen question the legality of the new bond issue and threaten to make trouble for the administration. Mbs. Josephine Weist, aged 80years, was burned to death at Peru, Ind., by stepping on a match and igniting her clothes. Seven large and valuable barns in Springfield, 111., were burned by incendiaries. A minie ball received during the civil war was successfully removed from the head of George Sackett at Creston, la. Two infant children of Mrs. Maggie Walker, of St. Joseph, Mo., were burned to death while alone. The visible supply of grain in the United States on the 19th was: Wheat, 82,282,000 bushels; corn, 2,765,000 bushels; oats, 9,110,000 bushels; rye, 505,000 bushels; barley, 3,515.000 bushels. The weather throughout the northwest was the coldest for the season in eleven years. Thermometers in St. Paul registered 10 degrees below zero. By an accident at the new chamber of commerce building in Toledo, 0., Fred Cronenberg, aged 85, and John Hummell, aged 42, were killed. Marin and Antonio Adego, brothers, were burned to death in an incendiary fire at Scranton, Pa.

The village of Mudtown, Pa,, was almost entirely destroyed by fire. George Kleinman, champion wing shot of America, was defeated by Dr. Carver in a 100-bird shoot at Watson’s park in Chicago. The Elwood (Ind.) Iron and Radiator company failed for §200,000. A coal train on the Pennsylvania road went through a bridge near Larimer, Pa., and eight men were believed to have been buried in the wreck. At Louisville John S. Johnson rode a mile, standing start, in 1:56 3-5, lowering the .world’s bicycle record a. full second. Near Wellsville, Mo., Thomas Portercheck killed his mother, sister and brother, set fire to the house and then cut his own throat. He was insane. While miners were removing slate from a remote portion of a mine at Haggerty’s colliery near Wellston. 0., they found in an old abandoned room the skeletons of four men. Two men and twenty-three valuable horses were cremated in the stables of A. J. Flanders in Boston. The Cook gang of bandits was practically cornered near Muskogee, I. T., by a band of Cherokee police. At the convention of the Knights of Labor in New Orleans the miners’ delegations from Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania were unseated despite their claim that they represented many thousand knights.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Mount Vernon, N. IL, lost by the democrats for the first time in ninetyone years, was the scene of a republican celebration. James Liddle, editor and proprietor of the Preston (la.) Times, committed suicide by throwing himself in front of a freight train. No cause was assigned for the deed. Rev. Henry L. Kellogg, editor of the Christian Cynosure, died from injuried received at the burning of his home in Wheaton, 111. He leaves a wife and nine children. The official vote of Missouri in the recent election gives Robinson (rep.) for judge of the supreme court a pinrality of 3,094. Francis A. TeAll, who read the original proofs of Poe's “Raven” and “The Beils,” died at Bloomfield, N. J., aged 72.

Db. James McCosh, ex-president of Princeton (N. J.) college, is dead. He was 83 years of age and a celebrated writer. Robert C. Winthrop died in Boston at the age of 84 years. He was the oldest surviving ex-United States senator from Massachusetts and the oldest surving ex-speaker of the national house of representatives, having been elected to the Thirtieth congress. Hamilton Stuart, one of the editors of the Galveston News, died at his home in Galveston, Tex., aged 81 years. Mrs. Milton Harrington, one of the six survivors of the Miltimore massacre in Utah in 1859, died in Delavan, Wis., aged 58 years. Official returns show that the North Dakota legislature will be made up as follows: Senate—republicans, 24; democrats, 4; populists, 3. House—republicans, 50; democrats, 5; populists, 7. The official vote complete shows that the Missouri legislature will have a republican majority of 16 on joiiit ballot. The official vote in Ohio at the recent election gives Taylor (rep.) for secretary of state a plurality of 137,006. The official returns of the late election in Minnesota give Nelson (rep.) for governor a plurality of 60,567. The woman suffrage amendment to the constitution of Kansas was defeated at the recent election by a majority of 31,175. Reuben F. Kolb, the defeated populist candidate for governor of Alabama, issued a manifesto calling on his supporters to aid him in securing the executive office on December 1. Joseph Lewis, at whose shop in Manchester, England, Stephenson’s engine was built in 1829. died in Kansas City. FOREIGN. Japan wishes definite proposals from China for a settlement of the war before accepting an offer of mediation. Floods swept the seaport town of Limasol, on the Island of Cypress, destroying much property and drowning twenty-one persons. The British ship Cui more foundered 80 miles off Spurn Head during a gale and twenty-two persons were drowned. Thousands of Armenian women were subjected to indignities and then put to death by the Kurds. Severe earthquake shocks in the provinces of Messina and Calabria destroyed many buildings and injured several persons. The ship Dauntless was reported to have been run down off Shelburne, N. S., and sunk with her crew of twentysix. Mexico was hurrying troops to the Guatemalan frontier and war between the two countries was thought to be imminent. Forty-seven persons took refuge in a church at San Procowio, Italy, during an earthquake and were buried in its ruins. M. Francis Magnard, editor in chief of the Figaro, died in Paris, aged 58 years. Two thousands more Armenians were massacred by Turks at Sassan, and their bodies being left unburied caused an outbreak of cholera. It was reported that many American laborers who were duped by sharpers to go to Panama to work on a railway were in a starving condition. Rumors of a royalist attempt to restore Queen Liliuokalani to the throne caused uneasiness in Hawaii. Earthquake shocks continued in Sicily and southern Italy. Palmi and Seminara are in ruins. The death list is swelling.

LATER. Miss Frances E. Willard was unanimously reelected president of the National Woman’s Christian Temperance union at the twenty-first annual session in Cleveland. The official vote of New York gives Levi P. Morton (rep.) a plurality of 153,838 for governor. James R. Sovereign was reelected general master workman of the Knights of Labor at their meeting in New Orleans. Lack of public confidence forced the Portland (Ore.) savings bank to close its doors with liabilities of §1,430,000, An Italian’s carelessness caused an explosion in a mine at Collier’s Station, W. Va., and seven men were killed and four injured. ■ Fire in. B. F. Wilde & Co.’s coal pockets at Charleston, Mass., caused a loss of 1125,000. An attempt was made near Conneaut, 0., to wreck the fast east-bound mail on the Lake Shore road. A track walker discovered the obstruction before the train came along. Nearly the whole of the business portion of Savannah, Mo., was destroyed by fire. Dr. Parkhurst and Mayor-elect Strong were the guests of honor at the 126th annual banquet of the New York chamber of commerce. A case of leprosy was discovered in Grand Forks county, N. D. The patient was confined in a lonely cabin. The deaths caused by the earthquakes in .southern Italy and northern Italy are now known to number more than 400. William T. Jones, a wealthy stock dealer at'Bournville, 0., was swindled out of §7,000 by two confidence men. Marion Hedgpeth, who robbed a ’Frisco train of §20,000 in 1892, was sentenced at Jefferson City, Mo., to twenty-five years’ imprisonment. The fire losses in the United States during the ten months ended October 31 aggregated §109,306,175. Paul Conrad, president of the Louisiana and Honduras Lottery companies, died at New Orleans from heart disease. An annex to E. S. Jaff ray & Co.’s New York dry goods store was destroyed by fire, the loss being §360,000. AntOn Gregor Rubinstein, the pianist and composer, died at Peterhof, Russia, of heart disease, aged 64 years. The Yaqui Indians raided the village of Soyopa, Mexico, and three women and two men belonging to the household of Peter Hernandez were killed in cold blood.