People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1896 — HISTORY OF A WEEK. [ARTICLE]

HISTORY OF A WEEK.

THE NEWS OF SEVEN DAYS UP TO DATE. Fwlltlcml, Rellthtoi, Social and Criminal Doing* of the Whole World CmrnfaUy Concerned for Our Render* —The Accident Record. R- A. Gray’s sawmill at Duluth,Minn., lurned. Loss, $5,000; insurance, $4,*OO. Its capacity waa 28,000,000 feet uanuallf. Conkqy Brothers’ roller mill at Pres.on, Minn., burned. Loss, $30,000; injured for $5,000. The farm buildings of Henry Whittenore in Pembroke, 111., were destroyed >y lire and lightning. The loss on wildings and contents is estimated at 15,000. Martin Clancy, aged 85, and a pioneer try goods merchant of Racine, Wis., is lead. Anton Marsqjeck was thrown from a wagon at Independence, Wis., and instantly kified. Levi M. Clayes, aged 88, is dead at Toilet, HI. He went there in 1832, and leaves a large estate. Congressman Cannon will open the republican campaign at Camorge, 111., jn Aug. 7. The silver people of Woodbury county, lowa, will nominate a county ticket at Sioux City early In August. A. F. Wllden of Elkhart county, Indiana, has consented to use his name m connection with the democratic congressional nomination of the thirteenth district. Judge Burson of Wln&mae and Charles Kellison of Plymouth are also candidates. The convention will be held at Knox Aug. 5. It is stated that the Spanish government has paid the enormous price of £700,000 each for the two war vessels recently bought at Genoa, while a contract has Just been given for two torpedo boat destroyers at £60,000, which wae dearer"than t>ie tender of a flrstr

class English firm, on the ground ihat quicker delivery would be secured. M. Meline, the premier of France, and nearly all of the ministers attended and delivered orations at the unveiling of a statue to the late Julefe Ferry at St. Die, the birthplace of M. Ferry Sunday. President Faure sent a telegram of regret at his inability to be present and exoreesing his appreciation of M. Ferry’s patriotism. At Cape Town a crowded, enthusiastic meeting has been held in favor of reinstatement of Cecil Rhodes as managing director of the British Chartered South Africa Company, but most of the leading and influential people, of the colony were absent from the meeting. Cholera is decreasing in Egypt and there were only 130 new cases and 100 deaths throughout Egypt on Saturday. The deaths include those of Cap. Fenwick. at Firket. and Surgeon-Captain .Trask, at Kosheh. who were members of the Nile expedition. Violent storms occurred near Paris, France, Sunday, immense damage having been caused by wind and raid. The lower quarters of the city have been flooded and several casualties are reported. A Canea dispatch to the London Times says that the Cretan assembly has voted a moratorium (delay in payment) of three months and that the government has sanctioned the vote. A railway collision has occurred at Delhi, India, by which fifty persons were killed and injured. The Jury in the case of Sidney Vennie and George Carson, charged with robbing the safe In the postmaster’s private office in Springfield, 111., at noon, April 3, 1895, of $6,556 in stamps and $750 in silver plate, brought in a ver r diet of guilty in the United States Circuit Court. Allen and Killoran, who were implicated in the robbery, escaped from Ludlow street Jail, New York, July 4, 1895. These men also robbed the postoffice at New Albany, Ind., Oct. 16,1894, of $6,327. At the second day’s session of the Cooperative congress at St. Louis the chair announced the following commit-

tee to formulate a Dlan of federation: A. S. Edwards, Tennessee; G. Cravath, Nebraska; Mrs. Elizabeth M. Warvall, Kansas; R. A. Southworth, Colorado; A. E. Gage, Illinois; W. 0. Nelson, Missouri; Mrs, Fales, New York; John Marshall, Kansas; Mrs. Helen S. Johnson, Pennsylvania, and John T. McBride of Missouri. Several lives were lost in a cloudburst which occurred on Upper Geneva Lake, Switzerland. Much damage was alto done to property by overflowing rivers. The Town of Nuremberg was inundated in part, and many houses on the banks of swoHen streams have been swept away. By the discharge of a spring gun in the woods near South Range, Wis., Fred Winn was klllled. The gun was set for deer. Judge N. E. Worthington, of Peoria, and M. J. Dougherty, of Galesburg, spoke at a democratic ratification meeting at Monmouth. 111. Sir John E. Millais, president o t the British Royal 'Academy, has had a relapse and his condition is serious. The Norwegian Storthing ha® increased the dutiee on wheat 80 ore and •m wheat flour 2 kroner per 100 kilograms. William Coilopy, an eccentric rich Irish citizen living near Galesburg, 111., died suddenly while his attorney was drawing up his will. Mr. Coilopy was an old settler. The residence of Robert Hay, of Mi Jo, 111., was destroyed. Less, $5,500; insurance, $1,600.