People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1896 — HISTORY OF A WEEK [ARTICLE]

HISTORY OF A WEEK

THE NEWS OF SEVJEN DAYS UP TO DATE. Political. Religious, Social aad Criminal Doings of the Whole World Carefully Condensed for Oar Readers—Tha Accident Record. Joshua Walton and Frank Frick quarreled at Shelbyville. Ind., and the latter was almost brained with a mallet. He cannot recover. Walton is in hiding. There was an apparent mystery in the sudden death of Jennie Gray at Kalamazoo, Mich. An investigation by the coroner developed the fact that she died of Bright’s disease. Land Commissioner French of Michigan has received a patent for 5,000 acres of choice lands in the upper peninsula from the federal government. On Aug. 13 they will be offered at auction at an upset price of |8 per acre. The litigation over the county seat of Woodford county, Illinois, still goes on. Eureka won the honor a few days ago, but Metamora got a stay from Justice Craig, and at the October term of court arguments for a rehearing will be heard. John Cunningham, Emerson Milligan, Joseph Hazleton and George Hazleton, charged with the Milligan murder, by agreement waived examination at Lawrenceville, 111., and gave bond In |2,000 each. The courtroom was filled with people. The Massachusetts republican state convention for the nomination of the state officers will be held in Boston, Thursday, October 1. The principal work accomplished by the socialist labor party In New York was the adoption of resolutions recognizing the trade alliance, by a vote of 70 to 6. At Kenova, W„ Va., John E. Blomer was shot dead by his father without cause or notice. The frantic father tried to kill another son and to commit suicide, but failed and was arrested.

Farmers in the neighborhood of Warsaw, Ind., decline to sell their oats at 10 cents. Wheat brings only 40 cents. Saloon-keepers In Portland, Ind., have resolved to wage war on the drug stores which minister to the “occasional thirst.” Ira Davidson fell from an Illinois Central train near Mattoon, 111., and had his skull fractured. His chances of recovery are few. In Cairo and elsewhere In Egypt up to the present there have been 466 cases and 408 deaths. Of this number 118 cases and 112 deaths occurred In the Province of Gharbish and 91 cases and 87 deaths at Cairo. The 9-year-old son of Charles D. Henry of Chillicothe, Mo., went to sleep on the railroad track. He was struck by a train and instantly killed. A case of cholera Is being treated In the hospital at Dansic, Polish Prussia. .Plummer’s column, near Buluwayo, South Africa, after several hours’ fighting on Sunday, finally repulsed a Matabele force. The latter lost 100 killed. The British lost twenty-three killed and wounded. Colonel Fernandlno Figueredo, the representative of the Cuban junta at Tampa, Fla., received a telegram from the Cuban agent at Key Wept, saying that the Three Friends had successfully landed her expedition In Cuba. The location committee of the Illinois League of Republican Clubs, appointed to decide on the place and location of the state convention, met and decided to hold the convention at Peoria Sept. 1. A number of noted speakers from abroad will attend the meeting. ' \ Dew and Color. Dew will not form on some colors. While a yellow board will be covered with dew, a red or a black one beside it will be uerfectly dry.