People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1897 — HISTORY OF A WEEK. [ARTICLE]

HISTORY OF A WEEK.

THE NEWS OF SEVEN DAYS UP TO DATE. Political, Religious. Social and Criminal Doings of the Whole World Carefully Condensed for Oar Readers —The Accident Record. The Channing Club gave a reception to Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale at the Brunswick hotel in Boston in honor of his recent birthday. He made a short address. Miss Eugenia Smith, 20 years old, daughter of Rev. Jarvis P. Smith, a Methodist preacher well known in Sedalia and Marshall, Mo., committed suicide at Independence, Mo., by swallowing twenty grains of strychnine. Disappointment in a love affair is said to have led to the act. Monsignore Martinelli, the apostolic delegate, has received official notice from Rome that the title and residence of the present See of Jamestown, N. D., is to be removed to Fargo, N. D. The See embraces North Dakota, with Bishop Shanley in charge. The state department at Washington has been informed that the government of Roumania has prohibited the entry of Jews into that country. A distinct earthquake shock was felt at Vandalia, 111., at 10 o’clock Sunday night. The vibration was from west to east and lasted about ten seconds.

Isaac N. House, a well-known merchant of Trenton, N. J., was found dead on his knees by the side of his son’s grave. He had apparently died while praying. The tobacco stemmery of F. Gloystem, at Hudson, Ky., was destroyed by fire. The loss on tobacco is estimated at $7,000 and on building SIO,OOO, with $15,000 insurance.. The female Wards of the*lowa state hospital for the insane have been placed under quarantine on account of diphtheria. One death has occurred and four are ill. The wards are quarantined from each other and from the center or working department. Judge N. C. McFarland, ex-United States land commissioner under Presidents Garfield and Arthur, died at Topeka, Kan., aged 75. Justin McCarthy, member of parliament for North Longford, who became the leader of the Irish parliamentary party in 1890, on the deposition of Charles Stewart Parnell, has been seriously ill, but shows marked improvement in health. The Ohio medical law has been declared constitutional in the lower courts. It requires physicians to register and have certificates based upon practice or examination. The First National Bank of Windom, Minn., has been authorized to begin business. Capital, $50,000. Three million whitefish fry were planted near Snake Island in Green Bay, Wis., brought there by the steamer Nettie Denessen for the Wisconsin state fish commission.

William Lutz, 72 years of age and one of the early settlers of the county, was ground to death under the wheels of a Chicago & Eastern Illinois train near Brazil, Ind. Burglars broke into the store of C. F. Knapp & Co., at Westfield, 111., and carried off a lot of goods. Charles Howard, Walter Howard and David Williams have been placed in jail for the crime. Joseph Johnson, his wife and two children and Miss Minnie Fraser attempted to ford a swollen stream at Jackson, Mo. Johnson swam ashore when the vehicle was overturned, but the others were drowned. Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage and his associates in the India relief expedition spoke to 4,000 people in one congregation at Rock Island, 111., Sunday night, and secured about $930 in cash and 150 bushels of corn. The body of W. H. Lange, a traveling man of Fort Wayne, drowned during the washout March 10, was taken from the river at Hazleton, Ind. It was identified by the name on the linen and mileage books. James A. Bryant, aged 71 years, and Rachel Nutting, aged 68, were married at Oshkosh, Wis. They are inmates of the soldiers home at Waupaca. Bryant was a member of the Forty-third Massachusetts and was disabled at Reedsville July 30, 1863. Gust Rom, a Finlander, was shot and instantly killed by Village Marshal Gust Miller at Wakefield, Wis., while resisting arrest for having stabbed a companion in a saloon row. A mob of Finlanders attacked Marshal Miller, but he was attacked by a posse. Three hundred people near Sioux City, lowa, have been caught for S4O each by two bunko men claiming to represent Jordon Brothers & Cruikshank, harness manufacturers, of Des Moines and Kansas City. They professed to give the victims positions at SSO a month, and required S4O cash bond to bind the bargain. Ex-Gov. V. V. Smith, of Arkansas died in the insane asylum at Little Rock. He was a citizen of New Lewisville, Lafayette county: He led the republicans of Arkansas in the BrooksBaxter war of 1875, being Baxter's lieutenant in office. His remains were sent home for burial. Mayor Wheeler inaugurated his administration at Springfield, 111. by closing all the gambling houses. Thomas Marshall, an inmate of the Missouri state lunatic asylum No. 2, escaped to one of the bath rooms, turned on the hot water, filled a tub, plunged In and was scalded to death.