People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1896 — THE NEWS OF SEVEN DAYS UP TO DATE. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF SEVEN DAYS UP TO DATE.

Political, Religious, Social and Criminal Doings of tho Whole World Carefully Condensed for Onr Readers—The Aceident Record. James Taylor of Belvidere, lit., who was incarcerated for selling liquor without a license, was found dead In his cell. Serious trouble is feared at Buchanan, Mich., where the St. Joseph Valley Railroad company is trying to lay a track on land owned by men who object to the road obtaining a right of way. A brother of Dr. Jamieson, Dr. “Jim” of the Transvaal raid, has been murdered by the Mashonas. The sultan of Turkey has accorded a general amnesty to the Cretans. The disease of cattle bill passed <ts second reading in the house of lords, London. President Ronilla of Honduras has accepted the resignation of Dr. Juan Aarios as minister of the interior. As a result of Saturday’s cabinet meeting in London the second battalion of the King’s Royal Rifles, now at Malta, has been ordered to the Capo of Good Hope. The English house of commons sat all Monday night to consider the agricultural land rating bill, designed to lessen the rates of taxation on agricultural land. Monday afternoon four choir boys and the choir master of St. John’s Episcopal church of Charlestown, were drowned in Lake Massapoag, near Sharon, Mass. Three members of a picnic party were drowned in the Missouri river at Tekamah, Neb., Monday. The dead: Miss essie Kelso, Sadie Reese and John Samson. The boat they-occupied was swamped. But one member of the party was saved, he clinging to the boat. Their bodies were swept away by the strong current. The afternoon eastbound Grand Trunk mail train jumped the track about four miles east of Coraall, Ark., Monday, every car being derailed. There were sixty passengers on board, but none of them nor any of the train hands received Injuries. The schooner Norma, from Kodiakata, arrived at Port Townsend, Wash., with . thirty-five stranded miners

aboard. They pronounced the uotwe Inlet mining boom a fizzle. Over 3,500 miners are at the inlet unable to obtain employment and supplies are going rapidly. , ... Young Carl Wendell was acquitted at Menominee, Mich., of the murder of little Eva Lafrienere, 5 years old, alleged to have been committed at Ishpeming a year ago. The trial dragged through seven days, and the jury were out but forty-five minutes. By the explosion of a boiler in the office of the Evening Age at Houston, Texas, Monday, three people were killed and a fourth badly injured. The latter is W. G. Van Vleck, General Manager of the Atlantic system of the Southern Pacific railway. Miss Frances E. Willard says the World’s W. C. T. U., of which she is president, will meet In Montreal, Canada, either next spring or next autumn. The Braddock wire works at Pittsburg, Pa., shut down, affecting 800 men, who will be Idle until August. A conference on the sheet scale was held at Pittsburg, Pa., Monday, and it was announced that an agreement had been reached. The scale of last year was practically adopted, the only change being in some minor foot notes. Au unknown man and woman were found dtad in bed in a house of questionable reputation at Wllkesbarre, Pa. It is believed to be a case of double suicide. Among the witnesses examined at Akron, O„ in the trial of Romulus Cotell, charged with the murder of Alvin N. Stone, his wife and Ira F. Stlllson, were Emma and Hattie Stone, both of whom had terrible struggles with the murderer. Neither could throw tho slightest evidence on the Identity of the murderer. The North Carolina democratic state convention met at Raleigh, Thursday. The financial plank favors both gold and silver as primary money and advocates free coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1. The Georgia democratic state convention declared unqualifiedly for free coinage of silver at 16 to 1, condemned the bond Issues and touched adversely on the policies of President Cleveland. Friday the grand jury indicted Nathan Cadwallader, president of the defunct Citizens’ bank, at Union City, Ind., for defalcation aggregating |15,000 and for indorsing 35,000 more for which there has been no accounting. In all six indictments were Issued, but the names of the others are not yet known. Morgan Edwards, 28 years of age, fell from a street car at Kankakee and died a fefr hours later. His wife and child live at Sparta, Wis. While a “society circus” was in progress on the lawn at the residence of James T. Jones at Springfield, 111., Wednesday, the seats broke down. A large number of people were injured. United States steamboat inspectors have revoked the license of Captain N. N. Jenny of the steamship Wyanoke of the Old Dominion line, which was sunk in a collision with the United States cruiser Columbia off Newport News, a number of lives being lost. More than 1,400,000 spindles at Fall River, Maes., are now pledged to shut down for four weeks during July and August, and it is now considered probable that every plain cotton goods and print cloth factory there will enter the agreement to curtail production by a suspension of operations.