People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1895 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. DOMESTIC. THE state normal college for girls at Livingstone, one of the most prosperous institutions in Alabama, was burned. A HEAVY snowstorm raged from Nebraska to the Atlantic coast. EDWARD R. CARTER, for twenty-nine years a clerk in the National bank of commerce of New York, confessed to embezzling $30,000. WILLIAM S. WHITMAN, of Winooski, Vt., shot and killed his wife and two boys and then committed suicide. Domestic trouble was the cause. A. W. ALTON, of New Jerusalem, Tex., when arrested in New Orleans upon the charge of insanity said he was on the way to Washington to kill the president. EIGHTEEN persons were seriously injured in a collision between passenger trains at Waxahachie, Tex. ALIX failed in an effort to lower her record at Los Angeles, trotting a mile in 2:05½. The 2-year-old Directly paced a mile in 2:08. THE largest single mail ever brought across the Atlantic arrived in New York on the steamer Majestic. It was in 1,672 bags. ANNIE FREEZE, a 15-year-old girl, was abducted from the home of her grandfather near Hicksville, O., by unknown persons. EX-CAPT. STEPHENSON, of New York the first of the police officials convicted as a result of the Lexow investigation, was sentenced to three years and nine months imprisonment and fined $1,000. A MAIL pouch destined for Hartford and containing 600 letters was stolen from the depot platform at New Haven, Conn. DAN McDONALD and Will Carter (colered were lynched by a mob near Meridian, Miss., for killing Jacob Copp, aged 75 years. THE visible supply of grain in the United States on the 26th was: Wheat, 89,071,000 bushels; corn, 8,838,000 bushels; oats, 9,000,000 bushels; rye, 452,000 bushels; barley, 3,306,000 bushels. FIVE white boys were fatally burned in a suburb of Richmond, Va., by an explosion of gunpowder. WILLIAM BLAKESLEY, of Sacramento, Cal., supposed by his parents to be dead for thirty years, gladdened their hearts at Trenton, N. J., by letting them know he is alive.

Madeline Pollard’s attorneys propose to follow Breckinridge on his lecture tour and attach the receipts. State teachers' associations of Illinois, Wisconsin, lowa, Michigan, Indiana, Nebraska, South Dakota and Kansas held their annual meetings. A prairie fire swept over a large area in the southern part of “N" county, O. T., and a number of farmers lost everything they owned and barely escaped with their families. The old capitol building at Atlanta, Ga., was burned, the loss beingsloo,ooo. Alex VVilliambon and Will Perry, two young men living at Coalburg, Ala., fought for the hand of Nannie Bell and both were killed. The worst blizzard in years swept over the western and eastern states. Along the Massachusetts coast many ships were wrecked, causing great loss of life, and in the cities of Boston and New York much damage was done by the storm.

Burglars broke into -the home of Henry Fecker, at Piqua, 0., and carried off his saving's, amounting to $4,750. John W. Foster, ex-secretary of state, has consented to go to Japan to aid the Chinese representatives in bringing about peace. Farmers and robbers engaged in a desperate fight near Salem, 0., and two of the former were shot and one of the latter. The bank at Somonauk, 111., was entered by burglars, who robbed the safe of SB,IOO and a large amount of valuables. Joseph Bidwell and William Find, ley, farmers of Union county, were killed near Columbus, 0., by a PanHandle train. College presidents of Indiana and lowa decided to forbid intercollegiate football games. August Permontir shot and fatally wounded Miss Meister, the daughter of his landlady at New Castle, Pa., and Robert Charles, another boarder, and then blew out his own brains. He was insane. lowa attorneys met in Des Moines and organized a state bar association, A. J. McCreary, of Keokuk, was elected president.

Six horses and two mules were killed in Philadelphia by coming in contact with electric light wires blown down by a storm. The Illinois Teachers’ association will urge the legislature to erect another normal school in the northern part of the state. The women’s council of the Nine-, teenth Century’ club of Memphis,Tenn., voted to boycott Congressman Breckinridge’s lecture. There were 850 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 28th, against 349 the week previous and 511 in the corresponding time in 1893. Nearly 2,000,000 feet of lumber and twenty loaded railway cars were destroyed by fire at Burlington, Vt, the loss being $150,000. Many farmers and merchants were financially ruined by the failure of the Citizens’ stock bank and Slater pavings bank at Slater. Mo. While eating Christmas dinner at the home of a friend in Rockford, 111., Henry R. Evans was taken ill and died within a few hours. The bddy of ex-Sheriff James R. Carry, who had died from some peculiar d isease. waa stolen from its grave »\ Greenwood, IndL

The dry goods and millinery firm of J. Lichtenstein Sc Sons, New York, failed for 8450,000. The president has approved the act to establish a national military park at the battlefield of Shiloh. Five men were killed and a number of others badly scalded by the explosion of a sawmill boiler at Bonayr, Ky. August Sieverding was stricken with paralysis at Galena, IIL, and fell across a buzz saw and his head and arm were severed. Jacob Shane, aged 55 years, a wealthy real estate man, was robbed by two highwaymen at Des Moines of 816.000. The Spokane (Wash.) Commercial savings bank, with a capital of $50,000, suspended payment. Exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 28th aggregated $836,401,764, against $1,020,040,544 the previous week. The increase, compared with the corresponding week in 1893, was 9.1.

The county treasury at Santa Rosa, Cal., was robbed by a burglar of SB,OOO. Michigan teachers in session at Lansing declared in favor of free text books and against teachers using tobacco. Temperance societies in Indiana were preparing to make a determined fight on the saloons before the legislature. At Wellington, Mich., Matthew Palmer cut his wife’s throat and then cut his own. Both were dead. Twenty-five bakers in Cincinnati reduced the price of bread from five to three cents. Leei.er’s hotel and other buildings in Waterbury, Conn., were destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of 8100,000. Coal miners at Massillon, 0., decided to reject the award of the arbitration committee and will not resume work. It was stated at Akron, 0., that there was a project on foot to combine all of the larger printing houses of the country. Fire in Louisville, Ky., caused $300,000 damage to the immense auction house of Stucky, Brent a Co. Gilbert Jameson, an old resident of Norwalk, 0., was blown from a railroad bridge into the river and drowned. At Silver Lake, Ore., during a Christmas celebration a lamp exploded and forty-one persons were burned to death and fifteen injured. Two Sticks, the Sioux Indian who murdered four cowboys February 2, 1898, was hanged at Deadwood, S. D., protesting his innocence. Secretary Smith has notified all Indian agents t 9 see that the red men are kent employed hereafter. The annual report of superintendents of Indian schools show that great good is accomplished by educating government wards. Flames swept away a business block in Buffalo, N. Y., the loss being SBOO,000.

Outlaws, supposed to belong to the Dalton gang, burned the courthouse at Stillwater, O. T., with all its records. Doss Hatts murdered his fiancee, Lizzie Smith, at Hunter Hill, Ala., and then killed himself. Officers searching for a stolen body in Indianapolis found twenty bodies of various ages in Jin empty house. Peter Murdoch, a New Orleans motorman, shot his wife and then blew out his own brains with a revolver. John Smith and his bride of a week were asphhyxiated by gas in a San Francisco hotel. Three children of Mrs. Viola Kemp, left alone in their home near Rome, Ga., wtere burned to death. Nearly all the officers of Bay City, Mich, were indicted for malfeasance in office by a grand jury. Ex-Congressman Walt H. Butler, who disappeared from Oelwein, la., two months ago, was seen in Indiana. William Nault, who prevented a runaway horse dashing into a cable train in Chicago, fell and was kicked to death. Government receipts in December amounted to $21,122,962 and the disbursements to $27;082,753, leaving a deficit for the month of $5,959,821 and for the six months of the fiscal year $28,254,963. A lighted cigar stump started a fire which destroyed the city hall, post office, public liberary and opera house at Biddeford, Me. An elevator containing 625,000 bushels of wheat was burned at Toledo, 0., causing a loss of $506,000. Chris Dandelion, an employe, lost his life. The First bank of Fort Pierre, S. D., assigned to its creditors. Superintendent Byrnes and Inspector McLaughlin were examined at the closing session of the Lexow committee in New York. The former said he had sent his resignation to the mayor-elect.

The Colorado Farmers’ alliance declared for free silver and a currency issued by the government alone. Van Alen’s nail mill at Northumberland, Pa., was burned, the loss being SIOO,OOO. Freezing weather in Florida, the coldest in sixty years, destroyed half the orange crop. The Labelle Wagon company of West Superior, Wis., made an assignment with liabilities of $136,000. Dora Williams, of Atlanta, Ga., locked her three children in her home and went visiting. The home and all the children were burned. ,_The Delavan house at Albany, N. Y., one of the most famous hotels in the United States, was burned, the loss beiug ®3<jo,ooo. It was said that 100.000 negroes would leave the southern states for Mexico this winter. Mrs. L. E. Castle,'of Callender, la., qualified for justice of the peace, to which office she was elected by mistake. A. H. Webber and wife, of Sacramento, Cal., were beaten to death with an ax and their home plundered. The N. B. Carlstein Co., gener&l merchants at Bay City, Mich., failed for f loo.ooa ;

The will of James G. Fair was filed at San Francisco. The $40,000,000 estate is left to relatives with the exception of $125,000. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Charles Edward Duffee, the ball player, better known as “Home Ron Duffee,” died at Mobile, Ala., from consumption. Abram Van Fleet, vice chancellor of New Jersey, died from heart disease at his home in Newark. Miss Celeste -Stauffer, who was' engaged to Samuel J. Tilden at the time of his death, was married in New Orleans to George S. Eastwick. Coi,. Michael Frank, the father of the free school system of Wisconsin, died at Kenosha at the age of 90years. “Sim” Coy. for many years a picturesque figure in Indiana politics, died at his home in Indianapolis, aged 44 years. The national executive committee of the populist party met in SL Louis to lay plans for 1896. Ex-Senator J ames G. Fair, the bonanza millionaire, died 'at the Lick bouse in San Francisco of asthma, aged 63 years. Mrs. Amelia J. Bloomer, the wellknown advocate of dress reform for women, died at Council Bluffs, la., aged 76 years. John Fitzgerald, ex-president of the Irish National League of America, died at Lincoln, Neb., aged 66 years. The populist conference at St Louis adjourned after adopting an address and a plan for an educational campaign.

FOREIGN. Actino under American advice, China decided to send a new mission to Japan to sue for terms of peace direct. The original manuscript of “America” was sent to the pope by David Pells Secor for deposit in the Vatican library. Brazilian troops burned a house at San Gabriel used as a hospital and 120 rebels perished. The Mohammedan inhabitants of Turfan, Kashgar, were in open rebellion, desiring to shake off the yoke of China and found an independent government under Russian suzerainty. The British steamer Abydos was lost off Port Erin in a gale and twenty-two persons were drowned. Austria, it was said, proposed to join Germany in retaliating on the United States if the sugar duties were not modified. A band of marauding Yaqui Indians in the western part of Guaymas, Mexico, visited the ranch of Julio Cardenas and massacred the latter and his entire family, consisting of wife and two children. Francis 11., ex-king of Naples, died at Arco, in the Austrian Tyrol, at the age of 59. Another rebellion was threatened in Brazil. The army, which is devoted to Peixoto, refused to obey President Moraes’ orders, and 200 officers were imprisoned. * Dr. Jose Ellauiu, twice president of Uruguay, died at Montevideo. The British steamer Yoxford sunk the French bark Marie Louise and five of the bark’s crew were drowned. The bark Osseo was wrecked on Holyhead breakwater and the twentyfour persons on board were drowned. Ex-Premier Gladstone celebrated his 85th birthday. During a storm in Colombia the village of Gaira was washed away by heavy floods and about fifty persons were drowned. In Santa Maria between forty and fifty houses were destroyed.

LATER. The loss of life from various disasters in the United States in 1894 w’as: Brownings, 3,443; fires, 1,677; explosions, 789; falling buildings, etc., 778; mines, 475; cyclones and storms, 517; lightning, 867. Three brothers named Masco were drowned in the Allegheny river near Olean, N. Y. Charles Brooks, aged 60 years; his daughter Ada, aged 25, and Louis Bergeron, aged 15, were killed by the cars at Keene, N. H. The wife and five children of Michael O’Connell were burned to death in their home near Waverly, Wis. Embezzlers, defaulters, swindlers and bank wreckers in the United States succeeded in stealing $25,234,112 of other people’s money in 1894, against $19,929,692 last year. The inauguration of Gov. Rich and the other state officers took place at ; Lansing, Mich. The loss of life by railroad disasters | in the United States in 1894 was 3,648, against 4,603 in 1893. The number of seriously injured was 2,397, against 4,864 in 1893. Levi P. Morton was inaugurated as governor of New York at Albany. The number of legal executions in the United States in 1894 was 132, against 126 in 1893 and 107 in 1892 Judge Lynch executed 190 persons, 187 men and three women, during 1894, ten less than last year. Five of the seven children of Jacob K. Levan, of Oley, Pa,, died within twenty-four hours of diphtheria. Pennsylvania’s legislature convened in biennial session at Harrisburg. William L. Strong took the oath as mayor df New York. He is the first executive not a democrat in twentytwo years. A letter received in Bosten, Mass., placed the number of Armenians slaughtered by the Kurds at 15,000. A train struck a sleigh a half-mile east of Willard, N. Y., containing Mrs. Hughes, her son, and Miss Larkin, and all the occupants were killed. Sixteen servants and one guest lost their lives by the burning of the Delavan house at Albany, N. Y. The Miller hotel at Lancaster, Ky., was burned and Edward A. Pascoe and his child and mother lost their lives. The total number of persons who committed suicide inthe.United States during 1894, as reported by mail and telegraph,.was 4,312, against 4,436 [n 1898, 3,869 in 1892, 2,831 in 1891, 2,640 in 1690 and 2,224 in 1869.