People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1895 — Page 3
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CASUALTIES.
Joseph Qant, a miner, aged 29 jrears, fell down a shaft at Spring Valley, 111., a depth of 4*7 feet, and was killed. Every member of the family of William Pfeil of Wabash, lad., was poisoned by eating cracked wheat and milk. Six men were Injured by the explosion of a boiler la the engine- ho use of the New Athens Coal Company at Belleville, 111. Jacob Emit and Henry Sands are not expected to recover. John Crisman, an oil man of Geneva, Ind., while intoxicated, weat into a livery stable and began mutilating the horses. A negro attendant struck him a fatal blow and has not been arrested. Engineer Forelines, Conductor Straley and a colored brakeman were killed in a wreck on the Norfolk & Western railway at Ennis, W. Va. Fire damaged the mill of the Norwich, Conn., Dyeing, Bleaching and Printing company to the extent of $50,000, partially covered by insurance. Seven persons were slightly injured by the wrecking of a passenger train near Dinsmore, Fla. Fire destroyed buildings worth $30,000 in Columbia, Tenn. The town of Mount Pleasant, in the same state, was almost destroyed. Mrs. Lizzie Nevlin was so badly burned at Ben wood, W. Va., that she cannot survive. John Sharp of New Marti nsdale, W. Va., was found frozen to death near Huntington. A six-story building running from 106 to 110 Attorney street and taking in 181 and 181 Vi Riverton street, New York city, was destroyed by lire. The loss Is estimated at $30,000. John Hersberger, a teamster on the drainage canal, was instantly killed. He leaves a widow and one child. A schoolhouse six Iniles east of RamBey, 111., was destroyed by fire. Fire destroyed property to the value of $40,000 to $50,000 at Rome. N. Y. Antone Hodenply, of the New York diamond firm of Hodenply & Son, fell from a wagon at Peofcia, 111., and was killed. He had $70,000 worth of diamonds in his possession. Fire at Indianapolis Tuesday morning destroyed eight wholesale mercantile establishments, causing a loss of half a million dollars. Four firemen were seriously injured, one It is thought fatally.
FOREIGN.
Said Pasha, ex-grand vizier of the Turkish empire, and president of the council has taken refuge in the British embassy at Constantinople to escape the sultan’s wrath. It is possible that if the European powers insist upon their demands respecting Armenia the sultan will declare a holy war, in which every Mohammedan in the world will take part The consequences of such an act may deter the powers from pushing Turkey too far.
me Norwegian bark Elsie, from Quebec to London, was wrecked on Anticosti Island. The crew has reached Halifax after Intense sufferings. Captain William J. Emrlght, of the British steamship Erona, was presented with an aluminum binocular glass, the gift of President Cleveland, in recognition of his services in rescuing the crew of the American schooner E. H. Cornell last March. Consul Barker at Tangier, Morocco, reports that wheat has grown so dear there that the last two steamers brought out consignments of American flour, which were immediately sold at a profit He believes that under more favorable shipping conditions Morocco would be a profitable market for' American breadstuffs.
GRIME.
John M. iKinkade, a real estate dealer of Denver, committed suicide by shooting on a train returning from Cripple Creek, where he had been investigating some mining property. The cause of the suicide is not konwn. Melancholia, brought on by trouble in love affairs, caused Miss May Wills, a young society woman of Akron, Ohio, to hang herself from a rafter in the garret. She was 25 years old. / Jacob Vanry, of Holland, Mich., who shot his wife and himself, has died of his wounds. His wife will recover. Fred A. Cartwright, principal of a ward school in Villisca, lowa, dismissed his pupils on the ground that he was ill and then hanged himself in an adjoining barn. He was the third member of his family to commit suicide. W. J. Conway, who on July 5, at Burlington, lowa, nearly killed the chief of police, threw a man through a plate glass window and was shot twice before being taken, has been found guilty of attempted manslaughter. Three bushels of letters stolen from the mails early in August have been discovered in the loft of the fire department in Centra, Mass. Detective Quinlan, who was employed by Harry Hayward, convicted at Minneapolis of the murder of Catherine Ging, has published a statement giving the inside history of the case. Hayward’s guilt isffully established. In the Elder embezzlement case at Duluth several witnesses swore that Elder had told them he was acting for the American Loan and Trust Company and not for himself, when he invested the $5,000 he is charged with having appropriated. It is generally believed that a verdict of not guilty will be returned. Louis Sells Barrett, pass clerk to General Superintendent Miller, of the Pennsylvania Southwestern system, with offices in Columbus, Ohio, has been caught placing employes trip passes in the hands of Jack Sneede, a local broker, and when taken to police headquarters confessed. The passes were taken from the middle of a book and given to the broker, who countersigned and sold them, they being good over the entire system.
THE PEOPLE'S PILOT, RENSSELAER, IND., THURSDAY, DEC. 12, 1895
Arthur Pugh, of Flat, Ind., fell from an oil derrick, a distance of thirty feet, and received fatal injuries. Joseph Kennis, a coal miner, went to sleep while intoxicated. He was cut to pieces by an outgoing freight train. George Eby, aged 9, of Watseka, 111., was playing with a cartridge, when it exploded, inflicting a wound that proved fatal shortly afterward. W. H. Beardsley, a painter, of Turner, 111., lay down in the snow and went to sleep Saturday night while intoxicated. He froze to death. John Casey of Freeport, 111., a brakeman on the Illinois Central, fell under the cars in the Rockford yards. One leg was cut off and the other badly mangled. His recovery is doubtful. Two fires in Chicago Sunday caused a doss of $700,000. - Fire in the Omaha National Bank building, at Omaha, Neb., damaged the office of Charles Offut $2,500, Lake, Hamilton & Maxwell SI,OOO and the building SI,OOO. Amos Laning of Greenville, Ohio, was terribly crushed by a heavy traction engine, which broke through a bridge and fell twenty feet His companion escaped injury. Harry T. Reed, aged 35, died at Columbus, Ohio, of hydrophobia. He was bitten about a month ago by a pet terrier. Gertrude Hornel, aged 5 years, was bitten by the same dog and will be sent to the hospital. By the bursting of a water pipe the clothing stock of Woodflll & Sons of Greenburg, Ind., was damaged to the extent of $5,000. Martin J. Wiley, formerly of Leroy, 111., was killed by a train at American Fails, Idaho. Joseph Guest, a miner, aged 20 years, fell down a shaft at Spring Valley, 111., a depth of 487 feet, and was killed. Every member of the family of William Pfeil of Wabash, Ind., was poisoned by eating cracked wheat and milk Six men were injured by cte explosion of a boiler in the engine-house of the New Athens Coal Company at Belleville, 111. Jacob Emig and Henry Sands are not expected to recover.
Fred Munroe, a prominent American banker, committed suicide at Paris Saturday. 11l health is believed to have been the cause of the act. George Augustus Henry Sala, one oi London’s foremost journalists, died In that city Sunday. A crank fired two shots from a revolver In the French chamber of deputies Friday. No one was hurt. He was immediately arrested and poved to be q harmless lunatic. A report to the London press says Great Britain has landed marines at Pera, a suburb of Constantinople, to protect the British embassy. Pasha, ex-grand vizier of the Turkish empire, and president of the council has taken refuge in the British
CASUALTIES.
FOREIGN.
Smoassy at (jonstanunopie to escape .the sultan’s wrath. It Is possible that If the European powers insist upon their demands respecting Armenia the sultan will declare a holy war, in which every Mohammedan in the world will take part. The consequences of such an act may deter the powers from pushing Turkey too far. The Norwegian bark Elsie, from Quebec to London, was wrecked on Anticosti Island. The crew has reached Halifax after intense sufferings.
CRIME.
Th& coroner’s jury investigating the death of Carl Ringe, the SL Louis insurance man whose body was found on a street, was unable to gain any light on the matter and returned a verdict that he was murdered. Banks at Cincinnati have exploded the sensation about Z. T. Lewis, the bond forger, securing $200,000 from them, leaving forged bonds as collateral. The totstl amount is $50,000. Governor Altgeld has issued a requisition upon the governor of Missouri for James Kimorough, wanted at Vandalia for robbery. The body of James Smith, an informer on Georgia moonshiners, was found strangled to death in a well at Monticello. During a race riot at Heidelberg, a Pennsylvania mining town, Luigi Fratitini, an Italian, was murdered by; Sicilians. John Ford, a coal miner of Athens, arrested in Springfield, 111., for disorderly conduct, hanged himself in his cell with a muffler. The federal grand Jury at Omaha will investigate the manner in which Richard Outcalt was acquitted for complicity in wrecking the Capital National Bank. More troops have been dispatched from army posts in Arizona in pursuit of the Apaches who have murdered stockmen. It is believed the rising will be put down without much difficulty. Michael Savant, wanted at Bessemer, Mich., for murdering Matts Ballander Nov. 25, was found hiding in a deserted mine at Ishpeming and arrested. George Winchester, aged 45 years, was found dead in his apartments over the Andover, Ohio, national bank. It is thought he committed suicide. Safe blowers at Miltonville, Kan., robbed the Santa Fe and Union Pacific railroad stations and the Alliance Exchange. Judge Sloan of Carthage, Mo., a prominent stockman, suffering from insomnia, committed suicide by taking strychnine. Vaults in the bank of Oronogo, Mo., Were blown by safe crackers, who secured $1,300. The building was wrecked and books and securities burned by the explosion. The governor of Illionls has honored the requisition 'of the Governor of Ohio for Harry Lincoln, wanted at Cleveland for stealing a diamond and under arrest in Chicago.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
President Cleveland now has In hand the report of the treasury auditor on he reported shortages in the accounts ts Congressional Librarian Spofford, which are stated to be due to carelessness rather than wrong-doing. Chief Justice Puller’s condition is Improved. In view of the unusual number of contests, Speaker Reed may form two ■lection committees. Senator Morrill introduced a bill for the appointment by the president of a register of copyright, to perform the duties which are now those of the librarian of congress. Secretary Carlisle’s plan to Increase the reserve by paying express charges both on the gold and the currency returned in exchange therefor has not proved the success it was hoped. Thursday’s receipts amounted to $105,000. The National Association of Wool Growers made considerable progress in preparing a memorial to congress A committee submitted a proposition to restore, with some changes, the wool duties of the McKinley law as a means of temporary relief. It is estimated that about 25,000 old papers were stolen from the file room of the treasury and their stamps removed by William Washington and an accomplice named Edwards, who are now under arrest. The papers were taken away in small quantities and young girls paid 50 cents a day removed such of the stamps and .signatures as seemed valuable and burned the pa* pers.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Mayor Pingree, of Detroit, has been asked to deliver an address in Providence, R. 1., on the best means of relieving that city of its big local debt and a street car corporation. He has named the last Saturday in January for the meeting. Cincinnati day at the Atlanta exposition was markfed by cold weather with a slight fall of snow. President Collier welcomed the visitors and President Freiberg, of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, responded. Mayors of both cities also made speeches. “Parson” Ahlwardt, the noted Jew biater, has arrived at New York from Berlin. No one was at the pier to receive him. Robert Fitzsimmons and Peter Maher have been matched to fight to a finish. The contest is expected to take place in' New Mexico. Coal miners and operators in session at Pittsburg arrived at an amicable understanding and there will be no strike. Company truck stores are to be abolished at once. Marinette, Wis., has sabred the location of a tannery which will involve the expenditure of a half million dollars. Ell Elstun, formerly a merchant in Greenup, 111., has made an assignment Thirty creditors have claims aggreg&t-
ing ti.uuu: Henry Watterson, who was to deliver his lecture on Abraham Lincoln at Webster City, lowa, failed to arrive and thousands were disappointed. The De Pauw, Ind., glass works at Alexandria, Ind., closed during the settlement of the De Pauw estate, will resume operations with 480 men the first of the year. The grand lodge of Good Templars of Indiana, in session at Logansport, essayed to elect officers, but it was shown that such action would be illegal before the October meeting. Reports show the order to be growing rapidly. The United States circuit court of appeals, sitting in Philadelphia, has affirmed on appeal the decision of the lower court in the patent folder case of R. Hoe & Co. against Walter Scott, a press maker, of Plainfield, N. J., fully sustaining all of R. Hoe & Co.'s claims in the case. The First National Bank of Pratt, Kas., the oldest institution in the place, has gone into voluntary liquidation. All claims will be paid in full. Three German emigrants, who arrived on the Kaiser Wilhelm 11. last Saturday, are very ill with smallpox at Braddock, Pa.
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