People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1897 — HISTORY OF A WEEK. [ARTICLE]

HISTORY OF A WEEK.

THE NEWS OF SEVEN DAYS UP TO DATE. Political, Religions, Social and Criminal Doings of tlie Whole World Carefully Condensed for Our Readers —The Accident Record. General Powell Clayton, United Stages minister to Mexico, who has been ill at the Planters’ Hotel, St. Louis, for some time, threatened with pneumonia, is sufficiently recovered to depart for his home in Little Rock, in the care of this private secretary. He will shortly return to the city if his health permits. ■The president has informed Representative Barbholdt of Missouri that Julius Goldsmith of Milwaukee, Wis., had been selected for Consul-General to Berlin. The North Dakota Milling Company, capital $150,000, has assigned. Harriett V. Ankeny, aged 97, died at Des Moines. She had lived there since 1864 and has 200 descendants in the city. Colonel William L. Kellogg, the gallant old soldier who was in command of the Fifth infantry at Fort McPherson, Ga., was given a military funeral Monday. New Hampshire holders of 431 shares of stock in tho failed national bank of Sioux City, lowa, iwiil be sued to recover an assessment of $75 a share levied to pay the hank’s indebtedness. The comptroller of the currency has declared dividends in favor of the creditors of insolvent national banks as follows: Forty per cent, the Missouri •National Bank of Kansas City, Mo.; 30 per cent, the First National Bank of Garnett, Kan. A snowslide occurred Monday at the mines of the Consolidated Mining Company, four miles north of Brigham City, resulting in the death of Fred Wolihaupter, Ed Maw and William Turner. David Russell, and John Dalton were also snowed under by the slide, hut were taken out alive. The pope has elevated the archbishops of Lyons, Rennes, Rouen and Santiago de Oompostella to the cardinalate and formally proclaimed the previously named bishops of Buffalo, Cheyenne, Wilmington and Mobile. The New York assembly passed the hill to prevent the wearing of high hats in theaters. A Great Northern eastbound passenger train struck a broken rail near Bear Creek, east of Kalispel, Mont. Both engines broke loose, and were hurled down the side of the mountain. Four of the crew were hurt, Engineer Smith seriously. A conference of the representatives of the Presbyterian churches of Indianapolis was held to arrange for entertaining the Presbyterian general assembly in Winona in May. General Benjamin Harrison will preside and present a historic gavel to the moderator. Governor Mount also will attend. Representative Holman of Indiana, who is suffering from serious complications following a fall from a street car, is (better, but still in a dangerous condition. Mrs. Leland Stanford emphatically denies the story related by W. F. Burns to the effect that she succeeded in insuring her life for $1,000,000 in the New York company with which he Is connected. President McKinley has decided that he will be unable to attend the Nashville exposition the opening day, May 1, . but will formally notify the authorities that he will visit the exposition after the adjournment of congress. Pearl Lilly, eight years old, of Glenwood, Mich., was burned to death while attempting to put wood in a stove. Active seeding operations are in full blast in South Dakota and a large acreage of wheat will be put out. Ex-Oongressman George W. Cooper left his home at Columbus, Ind., Saturday night for the mountains of New Mexico for the benefit of his health. He is in feeble condition from a severe case of grip and a complication of other diseases. Justin Smith Morrill, the veteran senator from Vermont, celebrated his eighty-seventh birthday Wednesday. Frederick A. Duggan of Trenton, N. J., has been appointed receiver of the Brewer pottery, a leading industry of Tiffin, Ohio, and one of the largest potteries in the west. The business of the factory has been poor, and the action was taken by dissatisfied eastern capitalists who own the controlling interest in the corporation. The president has decided to recommend to congress an appropriation as an indemnity for the killing by a mob of lynchers three Italian citizens of Hahnville, La., August 6 last. The Massachusetts House has passed a bill imposing a penalty for the second offense of stealing a bicycle of imprisonment in the state prison not exceeding five years or a flue of not less than SIOO. According to the new policy of the postoffice department, a change of residence by a fourth-class postmaster is considered equivalent to a resignation. The Dingley, tariff bill has aroused considerable antagonism in French mercantile circles. Retaliation is threatened. James M. Brassfleld, a wealthy farmer of Chatham township, 111., died from the effects of laudanum. He attempted suicide a year ago. George Syphar was found dead near Lena, 111., the supposition being that be was killed by an Illinois Central train.