People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1896 — The World in Brief. [ARTICLE]

The World in Brief.

Chicago school teachers are incensed because scrub women visit the schoolrooms but three times each year. President-elect McKinley was the guest of National Committeeman Charles C. Dawes of Evanston, 111., Sunday. While the family was at dinner Sunday burglars broke into the residence of Mrs. Frank Pardridge and stole SI,OOO worth of diamonds. Lodgers in the police stations are more numerous this winter than ever before. The majority do not come under the classification of bums, but are honest men out of work. LaGrange 111. women are excited over the swindle perpetrated upon them by a woman calling herself Mrs. Patrick. She collected $1.50 worth of hair combings and taxed the women $2.50 each. She will be prosecuted. Harvard orators downed Princeton men in the PrincetonHarvard debate. Frank C. Mills, treasurer of the Boston Safe Deposit Company is confessed defaulter for a sum approximating SIOO,OOO. Custom clerks in New York laugh at Secretary Carlisle’s orded to label all imports. They claim it is impractiable to enforce. There is a rumor on Wall Street that the fortune left by Jay Gould is breaking up. Armour ■end Pulman have declared war on Edwin Gould.

Abraham Slimmer of Waveriy lowa, who left that city recently, has issued a card denying that he was either abducted, drugged by enemies or is crazy. Tom Sharkey, the pugilist, drew $8,500 from the'bank, his winnings in the recent fiasco. The bank retained $1,500 to satify garnishments. Professor John Trowbridge of Harvard has discovered that with the power of 10,000 volts the X-rays are just visible, and die out as soon as the current is diminished. The daughter of Sig, Crispi, the Princess Lingua-Glossa, has eloped with one of her servants. Brazil and Italy have notified the Spanish government that they will not recognize the Cubans as belligerents. Harry Ulrici, 15 North Center avenue. Chicago, picked up ssl in bills on Fifth avenue yesterday and was taken to the Central station by a policeman who noticed the act Later the money was claimed by Attorney W. E. Hughes. Three masked men terrorized Henry Glamann and his sdn in their grocery at 2883 Main street Monday night add robbed the cash drawer of $34.47.

Thomas A. McClain, of Chicago, took morphine with sucidal intent Monday night because he lost money in suspended banks. He may recover. A mortgage for $1,000,000 in favor of George Sherman of New York as trustee and signed by Robert Lauglin as president of the Union Consolidated Elevated Railway Company of Chicago was filed for record Monday. The big department stores are suffering more that usual this year from the raids of shoplifters. Three highman followed Jerome Spencer to his home in Chicago in order to rob him. They secured a diamond stud valued at SSO.

Police Captain Chapman of New York charges that Herbert B. Seeley, a member of Gotham’s swagger set, hired women to dance nude before a party of his friends in private dining rooms at Sherry’s. Fully a score of miners were entombed in a mine at Wilkesbarre, Pa. The majority have been rescued. Four or five are believed to be dead. Deputy Sheriff Hanson of Thermopolis, Wyo., shot and instantly killed Thomas Bird, a cattle magnate, because he attended his dance uninvited. Benjamin Haywood and Eva Good, an eloping couple from Clark county, Kentucky, blew out the gas in their room at a hotel in Jeffersonville, Ind., but were rescued. Mrs. Cecelia Franklin, the St. Louis authoress, died Monday night from the effects of an overdose of cocoaine.

A mining company has been organized at Guthrie, Ok. with a capital stock of $500,000. Marriages of seventeen Chicago couples were recorded in Milwaukee Monday. Andrew Hart is under arrest at Lemville. lowa, charged with murdering his son, Andrew Hart, Jr., Dec. 13. Striking cabmen in New York are growing unruly and have made several assaults on nonunion men. The Patriarch’s ball, the ancient and rashionable function of New York society, was held Monday nighs at the Waldorf. Sheriff Gunderson of Norman county, Minn., shetand killed an unidentified bank robber at Rolette, N. D., Monday night. Greator New York will be divided into five borrougns and ten council districts. A National Federation of Building Trades is about to be formed with headquarters at St. Louis.