People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1894 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. DOMESTIC. The eighth annual session of the ■fraternal congress opened at Buffalo, 17. Y., with fraternal beneficiary organizations represented having 2,000.000 members and an aggregate insurance of about 5‘2,400,000,000. Surgeons grafted 230 pieces of skin on Mrs. Florence Fitzpatrick, wfco was terribly burned several months ago in Chicago, and 800 more will be required. - . E. T. Chamberlain, chief of the bureau of navigation, in his annual’report shows that the merchant marine of the United States comprises vessels of 4,644,024 tons. Wheelman Johnson lowered four records at Louisville, Ky. His time for the mile, flying start, was 1:47 3-5. Several slight shocks of earthquake were felt at Tacoma, Wash. Arrangements were nearly completed for beginning construction of the American Methodist university inWashington. Secretary Gresham authorized Ministers Denby and Dun to conduct negotiations for 'peace between China and Japan. A. Hallokan and W. Downing, prisoners in the jail at Tahlequah, L T., fired the building and were cremated.

Rev. C. L. Paddock, of Macedon, N. Y., was given judgment for $lO against Mrs. William Bennett for a funeral •ermon. Rev. H. S. Harrison, editor of the Advance, a Congregational weekly, was struck by a train at La Grange, 11L, and instantly killed. A special train over the Pennsylvania road covered the 126 miles between Morrisville and Harrisburg in 104 minutes. The general assembly Knights of Labor in session at New Orleans decided that lawyers and barkeepers were not eligible to membership. The most terrific and destructive windstorm known in twenty 3'ears did great damage at Dunkirk, N. Y., and vicinity. William Wickwier and his sister, who lived 5 miles south of Galesburg, Mich., were murdered by tramps. Capt. Philip H. Cooper, the new superintendent of the United States naval academy at Annapolis, Md., isaued an order prohibiting hazing. Extreme simplicity marked the funeral of Robert C. Winthrop at Boston. There were no pallbearers or words of eulogy. J. L. M. Pierce, of Yankton, S. D., was said to have disappeared with 81,000,000 secured from English capitalists on spurious paper. The national fraternal congress in session at Buffalo, N. Y., barred newspaper artists from its sessions owing to the printing of a caricature of its president. J. D. Brown, a farmer living near Aurora, 111., was robbed of 82,300 in Chicago by two colored women by the panel game.

The report of Paymaster General Edwin Stewart of the navy for the fiscal year ended June 80 last shows that the total amount expended during the year was 531,370,144. The Indian boys at the Seminole high school at Eufaula, I. T., set the buildings on fire for the third time within two years. William P. Hazes, the chief of the •ecret service of the treasury department, in his annual report shows that during the year the total number of arests made was 687, nearly all of which were for violations of the statutes relating to counterfeiting United States money. The amount of altered or counterfeit notes captured during the year was $21,800. Women of the Christian Temperance league of Keokuk, la., criticised Mrs. Cleveland for christening the steamer St. Louis with wine. The dean and six students of Oottner university at Lincoln, Neb., were arrested for grave robbing. The Knights of Labor in national convention at New Orleans decided that none but the American flag should be carried in their parades. Robert Fitzsimmons was exonerated by the coroner's jury at Syracuse, N. Y., from any criminal intent in the death of Con. Riordan. H D. Morgan, treasurer of the United States, in his annual report says the net ordinary revenues for the fiscal year ended June 30 were $297,722,019, a decrease of $88,097,009 as compared with the year before. The net ordinary expenditures were $ 07,825,674. Including the public debt the total receipts were $724,006,538 and the expenditures $698,808,552. Hukeb Bech, a Hungarian emigrant bound from Buda Pestli to North Dakota, landed in New York with his family of three and a fortune of $120,000.

The Citizens’ national bank of Spojkane, Wash., which failed in 1893 and then resumed, has gone into liquidation. Assets, $425,000; liabilities, $240,000. ' J - lit attempting to separate Thomas and Michael Neill, fighting in the street at Cheyenne, Wyo., Charles Brultar-k)lled them both. The remains of Gen. John C. Fremont were placed in the Eockland cemetery at Sparkill, N. Y. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 2Sd aggregated against $1,019,202,328 the previous week. The increase, compared with the corresponding week in IS9B, was 7. a Fijfle at Eldon, la., destroyed the Rdc4*fsland chutes, 1.000 tons of coal, several cars and two residences. Total Joss, 1120,030.

The chairman of the Oklahoma territory -executive committee called a statehood convention to be held at El Reno November 28. A hew counterfeit 820 United States note bearing the vignette of Hamilton was forwarded to the treasury department from Newark, N. J. Secretary Gresham for the United States and Minister Kurino for Japan have signed the new commercial treaty. There were 322 business failnres in the United States in the seven days ended on the 23d, against 270 the week previous and 385 in tRe corresponding time in 1893. Henry G. Sidle, ex-president of the First national bank of Minneapolis, has made an assignment, with liabilities of 8100,000. ' A negro was lynched at Landrum, S. C., for assaulting a white girl. At Sacred Heart, O. T.. a wild hog killed a 14-months-old babe and seriously injured its mother in her fight to save it.

Violent Windstorms swept portions of Mississippi and in the vicinity of Meridian great damage was done to houses and trees. While drj’ing dynamite before a fire at. Charleston, W. Va., workmen caused an explosion. and two men were killed and two injured. At Hastings, Col., Mrs. Martino left her children, aged 4 and 2 years, alone in the house, which caught fire, cremating them. The Brown national bank at Spokane, Wash., suspended payment. Myron R. Kent, who caused his wife to be killed in order to secure her life insurance, was condemned to hang at Mandan, N. D. Five students of a medical college at Kansas City, Mo., were arrested while robbing a grave in a neighboring town. i Earthquake shocks were felt in Connecticut at Croton, Mystic Lynn and Miatic. No damage was done. Test cases were commenced against the United States by sugar growers, whose bounty was cut oft by the new tariff bill. Gen. Casey, chief of engineers of the war department, urges the securing of fortification 6ites at all large seaports. ’ The barns of the Traction company at Allegheny, Pa., were burned, and forty-nine horses perished in the flames.' Forest fires in the Okaw river bottoms near Pana, 111., burned ten dwellings. Carson, la., was visited by fire, one of the principal business streets being swept away. Charles E. Allen, aged 60, of Crawfordsville, Ind., rendered despondent by his aged wife’s approaching death, cut his throat.

Samuel Carson, an escaped convict, who had been a Chicag6 cabman for ten years, ha 9 fallen heir to 810,000 and surrendered himself. The annual report of Superintendent Stump, of the immigration bureau, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1894, shows that 288,020 immigrants arrived in this country. The report says that more foreigners are leaving the country than are coming in. The centennial of the birth of William Cullen Bryant, the poet, was celebrated at Princeton, 111. Fire caused by a defective flue destroyed a block of dwellings in Kansas City, Mo., the loss being 8100,000. According to Rev. C. W. Blodgett the ratio of divorces to marriages is greater in Galesburg, 111., than in any city in the country. At Louisville John S. Johnson cut the 2-mile bicycle record from 4:01 to 3:54 4*-5. It was discovered that for nine years Samuel 0. Seely, bookkeeper of the ‘Shoe and Leather hank in New York, had been robbing that institution, his stealings aggregating 8354,000. Three miners convicted of incendiarism in the Pennsylvania strikes last June were sentenced to seven years’ solitary confinement and hard labor.

Three-fourths of the winter wheat sown in the western third of Kansas was ruined by a drought. One man lost his life and scores of horses were burned in an incendiary fire at Springfield, 111. Six men were injured in the YaleHarvard football game at Springfield, Mass., which was one of the most fiercely contested ever played, Yale being the winner Francis Murphy appeared before an immense audience at Pittsburgh, Pa., the occasion being the eighteenth anniversary of the inauguration of the “blue ribbon movement” in that city. Three citizens of Brookside, Ala., were fatally shot by moonshiners, who took them for officers. During a quarrel Jacob Mohow shot Mrs. Kate Doman at Lancaster, Pa., and then killed himself. Ex-Congressman Walter 11. Butler, principal of the normal college at Oelwein, la., disappeared mysteriously. A new and dangerous counterfeit $2 silver certificate made its appearance in Omaha. It bears the portrait of William Windom, and the sighatures of W. S. Rosecrans, register of the treasury, and E. 11. Nebeker, treasurer of the United States, series of 1891. Isaac Taylor and wife and Miss Kidwell were run down and killed by a train on a bridge at Soutli Branch, Md., while on their way to church.

Almost the entire business portion of Marion, N. C., was burned, the loss being estimated at $125,000. In his annual report Postmaster General Bissell recommends the extension of the free delivery system, quickening of railroad transportation and revision of the law as to secondclass matter. The revenue for the year was $75,080,479; expenditures, $84,324,444; leaving a deficiency of $9.243,935. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Three count es in Kansas failed to cast 200 votes at t e r'-ce t election and will lose the r repr*M-Mt*t;r.;v Mhr Mart Kr.v* m died at Ashland, iiL, at the age of H* j

Adam Yahkll, who served through the Blaekhawk war with Abraham Lincoln, died at Santa Rosa, CaL The democratic majority in Kentucky at the recent election, as compiled by the secretary of state, is 2,173. William T. Walters, the noted art collector and philanthropist, died at his home in Baltimore, aged 74 years. Gen. William Harvey Girsox, the celebrated orator, died at his home in Tiffin, 0., after a brief illness, aged 74 years. Repuhlican state senators in session at Indianapolis decided to reapportion the state congressional districts. The official vote of Wisconsin for governor at the recent election was: Upham (rep.), 196.452; Peck (dem.), 142.145; Powell (pop.), 25,613; Cleghorn (pro.), 31,096; Upbam’s plurality, 54,307. John H. Sickles, inventor of a hand fire engine, died at his home in Port Chester, N. Y., of paralysis, aged 73 years. Mrs. Bridget Duffy, 101 years old, died in Denver, Col. E. S. Hamlin, founder of the Cleveland (O.) Leader and a member of congress half a century ago, died in Washington, aged 86 years. Cabletox B. Hutchins, inventor of a refrigerator car and a large manufacturer, died in Detroit of heart failure. James Cochrane, the richest manoin Fayette county and the pioneer in the coke business in the Connellsville region, died at his home in Dawson, Pa.

FOREIGN. Montreal is to ;have a world’s fair in 1896. A London syndicate has agreed to furnish the necessary funds. Canada is said to be willing to give Uncle Sam free use of her canals if he will pay for their maintenance. Jose Salvador Fbanch, the man who threw the dynamite bomb at the Liceo theater in Barcelona, Spain, on November 7, 1893, killing twenty persons and wounding fifty other's, was executed by the garrote. President Mobaes issued a decree granting amnesty to all political offenders in Brazil. While searching fora missing brother a Mexican discovered near Churintzia the bodies of thirty persons who had been murdered and hidden in a cave. C. H. Wetmore, a Chicago reporter] was expelled from Hawaii for alleged plotting with the royalists. Kanahas on the islands near New Guinea were in revolt and scores of puropean settlers were said to have been murdered. China sent an officer to Japan to arrange terms of peace. It was said the government was willing to pay $175,000,000. Earthquake shocks left only twen-ty-four houses uninjured in Reggio, Italy, and crowds of homeless people were forced to live on the streets. Frank Payson and George Brill, American prospectors, discovered an old Spanish gold mine of fabulous richness 60 miles north of Sierra Mojada, Mexico. By the explosion of a boiler in a sawmill at Monticello, Ont.,. two men were killed and a number seriously injured. Dispatches from Chee Foo announced that the Japanese had taken Port Arthur, the great Chinese stronghold. It Wajs estimated that 20,000 Chinese soldiers were killed at the defense of Port Arthur. The Japanese loss was not heavy. Severe earthquake shocks were felt in several provinces of Venezuela. The town of Carache was destroyed.

LATER. The firm of Switzer, New, Witter & Co., one of the largest dry goods houses in Vicksburg, Miss., failed for $148,000. Czar Nicholas 11. was married at St. Petersburg to Princess Alix of Hesse-Darmstadt. Harry and Eugene Sanders, of Maucli Chunk, Pa., aged 11 and 12 years, were killed by the cars while picking up coal on the tracks. Secretary Carlisle awarded the new $50,000,000 issue of bonds to the Stewart syndicate of New York. Because of numerous quarrels Mrs. Godfrey Weinholtz killed her brother, Ernest Weisner, at Eldora, la., and then poisoned herself. Neal Brothers, of Portland, the heaviest millers in eastern Indiana, failed for SIOO,OOO and no assets. The legislative committee of the Michigan Teachers’ association will ask the legislature to prohibit the issuance of teachers’ certificates to any person who uses tobacco in any form. Bandits tried to hold up a train near Bragg Station, 1. T., but were foiled by the engineer putting on full steam. Herbert D. Glynn, who died in New l T ork, opened the gates of Castle Garden in 1855 to the first immigrant who passed through it. Fire destroyed the business part of Marion. N. C. Mrs. Sarah Ullrich Kelly', of Honesdale, Pa., announced her candidacy for the enexpired term of the late Myron B. Wright, member of congress from the Fifteenth district.

American newspapers have been debarred from circulation in Turkey, owing to their attitude on the Armenian question. The visible supply of grain in the United States on the 26th was: Wheat, 83.944,000 bushels; corn, 3,842,000 bushels; oats, 9,191,000 bushels; rye, 442,000 bushels; barley, 3,949,000 bushels. Samuel G. Seely, charged with defrauding the Shoe and Leather bank of New York, would, it was said, surrender and make a confession, involving several prominent men. Miss Mary Ockander, aged 18 years, and a younger sister were drowned while skating on a pond at Bancroft, Neb. The four military companies at Selma. Ala., were ordered to hold themselves in readiness to move to Montgomery at a moment’s notice to resist an attack on the state capitol in case the Kolb faction of the populist party tr.ed to take possession and seat Kolb as governor.