People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1894 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL. Regular Session. ON the 25th the senate agreed to the conference report on the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill and further discussed the conference report on the tariff bill....In the house bills were passed placing the widow of Gen. John M. Corse on the pension list at $100 per month, and permitting fourth-class postmasters to administer oaths to pensioners in remote districts. SENATOR VILAS (Wis.) replied at great length to Senator Gorman's attack upon the president when the tariff bill was called up in the senate on the 26th. A motion to place coal and iron on the free list was defeated. A resolution calling on the attorney general for copies of all correspondence with railroad officials in connection with the recent Chicago strike was adopted.... In the house the conference report on the fortifications bill was agreed to and some twenty interstate and foreign commerce bills were passed. IN the senate on the 27th the tariff bill was sent back to conference without amendment. Adjourned to the 30th.... In the house a message was received announcing that the senate insisted on its amendments of the tariff bill and had agreed to the request of the house for a further conference. The evening session was devoted to private bills. ON the 28th the senats was not in session.... The house passed a number of measures of a private character and debated a bill to give federal courts additional powers in dealing with violators of the copyright law. IN the United States senate on the 30th a bill was introduced to provide for the issue of $50,000,000 in treasury notes to be distributed pro rata among the states “for the relief of the worthy poor.” The house joint resolution extending the appropriatons for the last year until August 14 was agreed to.... In the house a bill was introduced by Mr. Boen (pop., Minn.) making it unlawful for aliens to own land in the United States. A joint resolution was presented by Mr. Boutelle (Me.) congratulating the people of Hawaii on the establishment of a republic and recognizing it is a free and independent republic. Referred to the foreign committee. DOMESTIC. REPORTS from all western states indicate the hottest weather ever known. Great damage to crops would result. STATISTICS of the recent strike show that the railroads in Chicago lost $355,000 in cars burned by the rioters. MRS. JACOB TRADER, an eloping woman of Calhoun county, W. Va., ahmpered by her 4-year-old daughter, tied the child to a stake and burned her to death. WALLACE BURT, a half-breed Indian who murdered Samuel L. Rightly and his wife, an aged couple for whom he worked, was hanged at Dayton, Pa. THE recent census in Michigan gives the state a population of 2,239,374, a gain of 145,485 since 1890. REVENUE officers unearthed an illicit distillery in New York having a capacity of 1,000 gallons daily. THERE were 249 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 27th, against 236 the week previous and 386 in the corresponding time in 1898. AT Cleveland Alix trotted a mile in 2:08 and Ryland T. in 2:07¾. Twelve heats were trotted in an average of 2:10. IN the free-for-all pace at Cleveland, O., Robert J. made a new record, an average of five heats being made in 2:07 3/8. NORTHERN Wisconsin was being swept by the worst forest fires in the history of the state. The losses already amounted to millions of dollars. The towns of Phillips, Fifield and Mason had been wiped out, and it was feared that several lives had been lost. A DISEASE which baffled the physicians had killed three persons at Minerva, O., and many others were afflicted. THE business portion of Lucksville, O., was destroyed by fire, and William Wilson, owner of a big factory, fell down an elevator shaft and was killed. DUN'S review of trade says business is rendered uncertain by tariff delay and the blockade of traffic by strikers. THE supreme court of New York refused a new trial to John Y. McKane, the convicted boss of Gravesend, now in Sing Sing. THE United States revenue cutter McLane seized six Spanish vessels off Anclote, Fla., that were engaged in smuggling. AT Briceton, O., David Kline and his wife and child were killed, poison having been placed in the well from which they drank. HARRISON DUNCAN (colored), who murdered a policeman in St. Louis October 6, was hanged for the crime at Clayton, Mo. THE northern districts of Mississippi were swept by a fierce hailstorm, causing great destruction of crops. A FIRE that broke out in J. H. Dorsey’s woodworking establishment at Tampa, Fla., caused a loss of $100,000. FIRE of an incendiary origin swept away many business houses in Celina, O., the loss being $150,000. WABASH freight engines collided near Lafayette, Ind., and Engineer Clark and Brakeman Donohue were killed. DICK GREEN was hanged at Mount Pleasant, S, C., for the murder of Nancy Drayton in April last. Both were negroes. BRYANT DAWSON and Joseph Yowell, young business men of Mount Vernon, Ind., were drowned while bathing in the Ohio river. THE exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 27th aggregated $770,418,388, against $857,811,437 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1893, was 13.0. THE percentages of the baseball clubs in the national league for the week ended on the 28th were: Boston, .663; Baltimore, .622; New York, .603; Cleveland, .571; Brooklyn, .560; Philadelphia, .527; Pittsburgh, .525; Cincinnati, .500; St. Louis, .422; Chicago, .410; Louisville, .325; Washington, .291. SEVENTEEN buildings in the business district of Brooklyn, Ia., were burned, causing a loss of $125,000. |

The three children of James W. Ganion accidentally locked themselves in the closet of a caboose at Hartford, Conn., and were kot found until dead. Miss Mary Londonderry, who purposes encircling the globe on a bicycle in eighteen months, started from NewYork. Three men were killed and another seriously injured as the result of a boiler explosion at a mine near Ashland, Pa. At Cleveland, 0., Online paced a mile in 2:06%, cutting two seconds from the record for 4-year-olds. Bouser’s oil tank and novelty works at Fort Wayne, Ind., were destroyed by fire, the loss being SIOO,OOO. One man was killed. A six-story building on Fulton street. New York, occupied by a number of firms, was gutted by fire, the loss being $150,000. Loss of property approximating $3,000,000 and heavy loss of life, the extent not yet known, though at least fifteen persons met death at Phiflips, is the record of the forest fires which swept northern Wisconsin for two days. 11. B. Burleigh, aged 75 years, drove from his farm in South Dakota to his old home in Buffalo, N. Y., a distance of 1,581 miles, in thirty-three days. The visible supply of grain in the United States on the 30th was: Wheat, 57,144,000 bushels; corn, 3,978,000 bushels; oats, 1,247,000 bushels; rye, 201,000 bushels; barley, 81,000 bushels. A cyclone at Watonga. O. T., destroyed many buildings and crops and injured a great many persons. The whaleback Pathfinder ran down the schooner Glad Tidings in the Detroit river and her crew of four were drowned. The production of bituminous coal in Pennsylvania last year was 43,421,898 tons, and anthracite 47,179,553 tons. The number of men employed was 160,589. Seven deaths from the heat occurred in New York city, four in Brooklyn and seven in Philadelphia. Live stock was being hurried to market because of the scarcity of feed. Chicago receipts on the 30th were 106,000 head, the largest in the history of the yards. Thomas Evans, a negro, killed his wife and himself at Louisville, Ky. A cyclone which followed a drop of 25 degrees in the temperature at Lake Massabesic, N. 11., wrecked a score Of summer Houses and did other damage. The 5-mile bicycle record in competition was lowered to 12:20 4-5 by F. J. Titus in a race at Lafayette, Ind. Cornelius Mees killed his wife with a hatchet at Portland, Ore., in a fit of jealousy and then hung himself. Mayo college, the leading educational institution of nortli Texas, at Cooper, was destroyed by fire, the loss being SIOO,OOO. Fire at Livermore Falls, N. J., caused a loss of SIOO,OOO. Joseph Wilson, said to have been the leader in the tarring and feathering of Adjutant General Tarsney, of Colorado, was captured at Nevada, Mo. Half a million loss was inflicted on Minneapolis by a fire in the lumber district originated by a spark. Frightened by a gun being pointed at him, Joseph Stakeman, of Terre Haute, Ind., went into a trance from which he did not recover for a week. A yacht capsized in the Hudson opposite Hastings and Thomas Pickett, aged 45, his son Edward, aged 15, and James Martin, aged 28, were drowned. The iron miners’ strike in Michigan peninsula was- declared off and the troops were ordered home. Claims for $49,800 for damages inflicted by the caisson explosion in Chicago have been forwarded to the war department at'Washington. Mrs. Anna E. Jones, of Chester, Pa., blinded her husband with red pepper when he complied with her request for a kiss before they- parted forever. The San Francisco market was so glutted with fruit that peaches were selling for ten cents a basket. Seventy-five cans of opium were found by custom house officers on the coasting steamer City of Pueblo at Tacoma, Wash.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Illinois republicans in state convention at Springfield nominated Henry Wulff for treasurer, G. M. Inglis for superintendent of public instruction, and S. A. Bullard, Alexander McLean and Mrs. J. M. Flower for trustees of the state university. The platform favors protection to American industries, favors liberal pensions to soldiers, the use of gold and silver as money metals upon a parity of values, and arraigns the present democratic governor of the state as the most conspicuous case of misfit in official life. In convention at Des Moines the lowa republicans nominated W. M. McFarland for secretary of state, C. G. McCarthy for auditor, J. S. Herriott for treasurer, Milton Remley for attorney general, C. L. Davidson for railroad commissioner, and G. T. Granger and H. E. Deemer for supreme court judges. The platform declares for a system of protective duties so adjusted that every American resource can be developed by American labor, adheres to the declaration of the national republican party in 1892 upon its monetary policy, favors the exclusion of pauper immigrants and liberal pensions to soldiers. Candidates for congress were nominated as follows: Illinois, Eleventh district, William Ilirchey (pop.): Fourteenth, David W. McCulloch (pro.). lowa, Third district, D. B. Henderson (rep.)., renominated. Indiana, First district, James A. Boyce (pop ). Ohio, Seventh district, R. S. Thompson (pro.). Maryland, First district, J.. W. Mills (dem.). North Carolina, Eighth district. W. H. Brown (dem.). Pennsylvania, Nineteenth district, J. A. Stahl (rep.). Gen. A. J. Pleasanton, originator of ■ the blue glass theory, died at his home ; in Philadelphia, aged 86 years. Rev. Francis A. Hoffman aged 88 years, the oldest Evangelical preacher in the United States, died at Reading, ' Pa. |

The prohibitionists of the Seventh Kentucky (Breckinridge’s) district nominated Judge James B. Finnell for congress. In convention at Grand Forks, N. D., the democrats nominated Judge Templeton for judge of the supreme court and Budd Reeves for congress. The platform declares for bimetallism, demands that all money be issued by the government, demands tariff for reve nue only and the speedy passage of reform tariff laws. The Wisconsin republicans in convention at Milwaukee nominated the following ticket: Governor, W. H. Upham; lieutenant governor, Emil Baensch; secretary of state, Henry Casson; treasurer, S. A. Peterson; attorney general, W. A. Mylrea; superintendent of public instruction, John Q. Emery; railroad commissioner, Duncan McKenzie; insurance commissioner, Dr. W. A. Frecke. The platform favors protection to American industries, the use of silver as a currency to the extent only that it can be circulated on a parity of gold, entire separation of church and state, free common schools, and recognizes the right of laborers to organize, using all honorable measures for the purpose of dignifying their condition and placing them on an equal footing with capital to the end that both fully understand that they are friends and are equal to each other and to the prosperity of the people. Thomas R. Horton, of Fultonville, N. Y., editor of the Republican, died at the age of 72. He served in congress from the Eighteenth district of New York from 1855 to 1857. The republican state convention of Massachusetts will be held at Boston October 6. James Mulligan, of “Mulligan Letter” fame, died at Maynard, Mass., aged 53 years. Congressional nominations were made as follows: Michigan, Third district, J. C. Barrows (rep.) renominated; Sixth, David I). Aitken (rep.) renomi nated. Pennsylvania, Twenty-fourth district, Ernest Acheson (rep.). FOREIGN. War was declared between China and Japan, and the king of Corfea was imprisoned by the Japanese. Mexican bandits held up the stage near Perota, Vera Cruz, and stole $4,000, besides robbing the passengers of valuables. The final splice of the Anglo-Ameri-can Telegraph company’s new cable was made at Heart’s Content, N. F. Bobadella, who headed a conspiracy to kill the president of San Domingo, was shot. His followers were set at liberty. By a collision of steamers on the River Niemen at Grodno fourteen persons lost their lives and eleven others were injured. A native force attacked the French in Senegal and was repulsed with a loss of 500 killed and 128 wounded. The governor of Hong Kong places the deaths from plague in the Canton district alone at 120,000. Nearly 180,000 acres of land have been given in four years by the province of Quebec to fathers of families containing twelve or more children. Of 2,000 troops on board the Chinese transport Kow Shing, sunk by a Japanese cruiser, only forty were saved. ' Two thousand houses were destroyed by fire in Cottel, a Bulgarian town, and it was believed that many persons perished. In a twenty-four hour bicycle race at Herne Hill, England, Shetland covered 400 miles 900 yards, beating the world’s record.

LATER. The general deficiency appropriation bill was reported to the United States senate on the 31st ult. and placed on the calendar, as was also the house bill to provide a uniform system of bankruptcy. The sundry civil bill was passed. In the house Mr. Boen (Minn.) introduced a bill to abolish national banks, making it unlawful to charter a bank or provide additional currency for those already chartered, and directing the secretary of the treasury to withdraw all deposits of public money from the banks and return them to the treasury. The cotton crop this year is estimated at 8,900,000 A cask cantaining §50,000 in gold, shipped from New York, disappeared while in transit between Havre and Paris. 'While conducting experiments with a new explosive in a quarry at Hawthorne, 111., C. 11. Rudd and two others were injured and three of his assistants killed. In a battle with the Japanese fleet the Chinese war ship Chen-Yuen was sunk, two cruisers were captured or destroyed and nearly 1,000 men were killed or drowned. The strike commission decided to begin its inquiries at Chicago August 15, and issued a statement outlining its duties and purposes. The following congressional nominations were made: Georgia, Eighth district, Thomas G. Lawson (dem.) renominated; Tenth, J. C. C. Black(dem.) renominated. North Dakota, First district, G. G. Ellis (pro.). The prohibition state conventional Fargo, N. D., indorsed the republican candidates for judge of the supreme eourt, governor and superintendent of public instruction. A tornado wrecked over twenty buildings at Litchfield, 111. In convention at Grand Rapids the Michigan republicans nominated the following ticket: For governor, John T. Rich; lieutenant governor, Alfred Milnes; secretary of state, Rev. Washington Gardner; treasurer. James M. Wilkinson; auditor general, Fred A. Maynard; land commissioner, William A. French; superintendent of public instruction, H. M. Pattengill; member of board of education, Perry F. Powers. The platform approves the administration of Gov. Rich, declares in favor of a protective tariff and reciprocity, favors arbitration in labor troubles, declares against pauper immigration and favors the use of gold and silver us money metals.